There was just a book published, Your Breasts Are Trying to Kill You, by author Florence Williams. It seems as though she is taking a serious, yet humorous look at what our breasts do and don’t do for us. I think there is much truth in this book. I haven’t read it yet, just the [...]
We need to be questioning our baby feeding norm in this country. We are a formula feeding culture right now in the US whether we like it or not. This means that more people feed their babies artificial baby milk then breastmilk. We are also a bottle, not breastfeeding culture. Even if we are interested [...]
Parenting is hard! I just read an article on parenting research and had to respond. The article is about a study which found that parenting basically sucks and we are lying to ourselves if we say otherwise. This research paper was published in Psychological Science. Research proves parenting is costing us $193,000 and change per [...]
November 20, 2010 – 10:15 am
What do I love about technology? Not a whole lot! I have been dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century by necessity. My friends make fun of me because I am such techno phobe. However, it spite of this, I have a website, a blog, a face book page, read the daily posts [...]
November 16, 2010 – 10:00 am
Why are diabetes cost are going through the roof? According to an article in the New York Times, it is costing us $174 billion dollars a year to cover the health costs of people who have developed diabetes in their life time. More and more of our population is developing diabetes. ““Diabetes is the [...]
When a breastfeeding mother returns to work she actually doesn’t need very much from her employer to be successful. Really, working and breastfeeding requires at a minimum; time to remove milk from her breasts, a place to do this, and a way to do it. An employer does need to provide the first two necessities, [...]
Many mothers in the US return to work when their babies are quite young. If they are breastfeeding and want to continue to exclusively provide breastmilk for their babies, it can make things more complicated. In most industrialized countries there are laws and governmental policies that help mothers of young children. In Canada for instance, [...]
From 6-9 this Friday, June 11th, Ann Arbor will be hosting our Green Fair on Main Street. This exciting event celebrates and shares what businesses and organizations are doing to help our environment. I heard about this fair last year. One of my neighbors, John Harding has an electric scooter business and he was [...]
Wow! Who knew that feeding a baby could be so controversial! I want to make sure it is clear that it is my job to help mothers feed their babies in the manner of their choosing. I get calls all the time from families who want to/need to wean, and from formula feeding families who [...]
Lately, there has been quite a bit of reporting in the news about artificial baby milk (formula) feeding. The costs of our mothers choosing to feed their babies formula is tremendous. According to one recent study, if mothers breastfed their babies for six months we would save staggering amounts of money each year. “The United [...]