Congratulations on your decision to write your first anti-breastfeeding article! Although this is no doubt a column, opinion piece, or blog post, we will…
Category: Advocacy
Guest post: Why we need to celebrate Black Breastfeeding Week
While I want to share this voice from a white ally, I encourage you to seek out the person-of-color perspective on Black Breastfeeding Week.…
Necrotizing enterocolitis by the numbers
Click to download a full-size version of the infographics, free to share/use with credit given. Do you know the numbers? Do you know the…
Hard-of-hearing in the hospital: Tips for healthcare workers during #COVID19
As someone who works in a hospital, having to reuse masks and other PPE—not to mention knowing that shortages put colleagues who take care…
Food is love, food is everything
At the 2017 Minnesota Breastfeeding Coalition conference and annual meeting, Camie Jae Goldhammer, MSW, LICSW, IBCLC delivered powerful, poignant, and straightforward presentations on encouraging and…
Newsflash: the internet is uncomfortable with breastfeeding
Well, not everyone, but you get the point. Best for Babes shared a lovely nursing picture a few days ago. The mother who offered…
MommyCon is not for me
I’ve been pretty vocal about how I honor the International Code of Marketing Breast-milk Substitutes (the WHO Code or International Code) and why I…
Fighting the wrong front in the mommy wars
I don’t often talk about the so-called “benefits” of breastfeeding* for a few reasons: This is language I try to avoid. Humans are mammals,…
Breast is not always to blame
“Sometimes the strong need reassurance,” is what the photographer titled this photograph. How true. (Image credit Leon Fishman via Flickr Creative Commons) There’s an…
The WHO Code, marketing, sponsorship, and why you should give a damn
It's the WHO Code's 33rd birthday, and we're "celebrating" with a day of action to encourage healthcare facilities to be free of formula marketing.…