October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Think Before You Pink website has this featured video, which will hopefully make you think about the doublemindedness of pharmaceutical companies. Milking Cancer from Breast Cancer Action on Vimeo. Did you know that if you give birth twice and breastfeed each child for 12 months each for a total of 24 months of breastfeeding, you [...]

Kids’ lungs benefit from longer breastfeeding

Fri, Jan 2, 2009 (Reuters Health) — Children who are breastfed for at least 4 months may have better lung function than children who are breastfed for shorter periods of time and children who are bottle-fed, a new study suggests. Among 10-year old children, researchers found greater lung function and capacity in those who were [...]

2008 Breastfeeding News Reports

This from the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog: Some good news: Breastfeeding initiation rates have hit a 20 year high. Breastfeeding helps you lose weight. Breastfeeding does not make your breasts sag. Breastfeeding reduces your risk of metabolic syndrome. Breastfeeding reduces you risk of rheumatoid arthritis by half. Breastfeeding protects babies from breast cancer as adults. Breastfeeding [...]

Birthfriend announces a new podcast

It’s still a little rough but I have a good friend who is a sound engineer and he’s coming over to help me with better equipment and recording advice, but it’s a start! The new podcast is called Birthwise Mommycast.  I hope to feature news and commentary on all things birth oriented, from pregnancy through [...]

World Breastfeeding Week

WABA (World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action) had set aside the week of August 1-7 as World Breastfeeding Week.  The emphasis this year is “Mother Support:  Going for the Gold”. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta releases a breastfeeding report card each year for every state. You can search their site to find out [...]

The Trust Birth Conference

I’m going. This conference is sponsored by Ancient Art Midwifery Institute and Carla Hartley. She says it will be her last one and it is worth putting everything else aside to attend. Some of the biggest names in the birth community will be there. Dr. Sarah Buckley, Dr. Michel Odent, Dr. John Stevenson, Jan Tritten, [...]

Milking the Innocent

Marketing infant formula at the cost of young lives. by Sharon Craig In the Philippines, as in much of the global South, infant formula powder is a booming industry. Television ads for formula feature prodigy violinists and boast of “brain building blocks” and “IQ nutrition systems.” False advertising also leads mothers to believe that breast [...]