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Time Magazine's Big Child Breastfeeding Bashing - or "Look How Far We've Come!"

HowBreastfeedin... 1 year 1 week ago

This is what many are saying is a deliberately provocative photograph, used for the cover of Time magazine.

It shows Jamie Lynne Grumet, from Los Angeles, breastfeeding her three-year-old son, Aram.

50/50

MammyDoula 1 year 9 weeks ago

One of my gorgeous ladies called me the other day. She'd been having problems with sore nipples.

It turns out her daughter not only had a tongue tie, but also had a bubble palate. Despite all of this, she managed to get more than enough milk to keep midwives and health visitors happy. Mum is producing copious amounts of milk. Once all of this had been sorted, my lovely lady took her daughter to be weighed. When she called me to update me she told me which percentile her daughter was on.

Language & the Breastfeeding Debate

HowBreastfeedin... 1 year 15 weeks ago

The language we currently use to talk about breastfeeding...

..is entrenched, with guilt, grief and resentment lurking beneath the surface like jagged, hull-tearing rocks. These raw emotions make it incredibly hard to sail a clear, helpful, kind journey through the debate. But it is so important to get it right. Why? Because guilt, grief and resentment aren’t words we want to use to encapsulate our early experiences of motherhood and parenting.

A Tale of Two Births

MammyDoula 1 year 21 weeks ago

I adore twin births. I admit to bias as a twin mum myself...

My own twins were a transverse lie, so the vaginal option was out for me, and I take joy when I see other twin mums get the birth that I didn't.