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The Daily Mail has this typically hysterical and annoying headline for a recent story: " No, breast ISN'T always best for baby...whatever the extremists tell you ". Ba ba buuuum. That's right, lactation consultants pose major threats to infant health and welfare! Talk about selling...

Aimee got cancer as a young woman and had both of her breasts removed. As she made ready to start a family she began to grieve the loss of her ability to breastfeed. But when she looked for support from other mothers around which formulas worked best, she was asked instead to join the "breast is...

To listen to your average sanctimonious lactivist, breastfeeding is under attack everywhere and nurses shove bottles of formula into the groggy, exhausted hands of postpartum mothers while binding their breasts to cut off milk supply. Ain't necessarily so, at least according to the Center for Disease...

Little breastfeeding babies know a boob when they see one. They just can't always distinguish fake ones from real ones , as demonstrated by this image: Of course, no one photographed what happened afterwards. The baby started to cry because he wasn't getting the milk he wanted. Then the statue...

When I left the hospital with my second baby a little over a month ago, I absconded with three of nice big thick flannel receiving blankets, the little onesie they dressed him in and a cheap diaper bag provided by a formula manufacturer, which contained a big water bottle, an abridged version of The...

We've all heard again and again and yet again about all the reasons breastfeeding is good for babies. But it's good for the environment as well. Cows, which make the milk that's used to make formula, are great big mooing polluters, is why. Plus there is the issue of all the formula cans or...

Ahem. It all started off in such a lighthearted way, joking about lactation. I mentioned that Sophie Currier could spray the medical board with breastmilk "Rambo-style" after they rejected her request for extra break time to nurse during an exam. Then, when Bill Maher said moms who breastfeed...

Say these words and feel your shoulders relax " Formula Fed and Flexible Parenting" ... Aahhhhh. Doesn't that feel great? Well read this blog of Alex Elliott's and you'll feel even better... There are some crazy strong feelings out there about breast versus formula feeding and so...

As Captain of Team Breastfeeding , I’m calling on our officers to revise the propaganda: breastfeeding does not protect against asthma or allergies! A study to be published in the British Journal of Medicine followed 13,889 Belarussian children from birth until 6 ½ years old, with randomized samples...

Babble readers have opinions, strong ones, about the recent decision by large hospitals around the country to stop providing formula in post-partum take-home bags. They range from the mild: "I think that sending people home with formula *does* jeopardize breastfeeding success," to the wild...