Mexico City’s sexist breastfeeding campaign
Mexico City's new campaign for breastfeeding featuring topless Latin celebrities has been slammed by women's groups who say it is sexist and shames mothers.
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Woman called ‘tramp’ for breastfeeding in public
A young mother has expressed her outrage after a picture of her breastfeeding in public was uploaded onto Facebook with a caption labelling her as a "tramp".
Should mothers be paid to breastfeed?
In a pilot scheme launched by Sheffield University researchers and funded through a collaboration between the government and medical research sector, shopping vouchers worth up to $340 will be offered to 130 mums as the initiative is tested. Areas with low breastfeeding rates among new mums – around 25 per cent compared to the national […]
Why breast is best for the royal baby
Like many modern mums the Duchess of Cambridge has unwittingly found herself at the centre of one of the most contentious issues that burden new parents — to breastfeed or not to breastfeed? Royal mothers past have shuddered at the thought of breastfeeding a little Prince or Princess, but like the Queen and her mother-in-law […]
Alicia Silverstone asks mothers to donate breast milk
Actress Alicia Silverstone is asking vegan mums to donate their breast milk to women who have trouble breastfeeding. Concerned with the struggles women face when providing healthy breast milk for their newborns, the 35-year-old mother-of-one is encouraging mums to donate through her blogThe Kind Life. Alicia, who has a two-year-old son named Bear Blu to […]
Would you feed your baby someone else’s breast milk?
It’s one of the last motherhood taboos — letting another woman breastfeed your baby. Zoe Arnold questions why we’d rather feed our kids animal’s milk than accept milk from mothers who have enough to share. It’s an ancient practice known as wet nursing — a woman who breastfeeds another person’s baby. It existed for millennia, […]
Still think breastfeeding is disgusting? Mums stage nurse-in at cafe
If the sight of one breastfeeding woman disgusted staff at a Sydney café on the weekend, we’d love to know how they felt when more than 50 mothers descended on the Newtown eatery at lunchtime today. Lactivists Australia staged a “nurse-in” at the Satellite Café in the trendy inner-city suburb this afternoon after a waitress […]
Kochie won’t budge on breastfeeding comments
David Koch has responded to the controversy he caused and “vitriol” he copped over his comments on the hot issue of public breastfeeding, but has he excused his actions or is he just making it worse? Writing in today’s Daily Telegraph, Kochie has said he believes Australian women should be able to breastfeed “anywhere at […]
Newsflash Kochie: We’d rather not bare our breasts in public – but babies come first
Mum-of-two Zoe Arnold has news for David Koch: mums don’t like exposing their breasts in public any more than he likes seeing them — but any mum, given the choice between a screaming baby and a content, well-fed one, will opt to get their boobs out. Anywhere, anytime. One day I was breast-feeding my five-month-old […]
Pink: I’m a breastfeeding militant
If you’re one of those people who shoots dirty looks at women who breastfeed in public, stay away from rocker Pink. The singer is in Sydney for a month and won’t tolerate any criticism of her decision to breastfeed baby Willow, 15 months, in restaurants, cafes or anywhere else she chooses. Related: Bottle feeding ‘like […]