Another day, another attack on moms who breastfeed their babies in public. This past weekend, three Delaware moms said they were harassed and accused of “exposing themselves” by security officers and a state trooper at a Hollister retail store in a mall as they breastfed their children. The moms were staging a “nurse-in” in support of [...]
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Breastfeeding Professor Had ‘No Ideal Options’
Adrienne Pine, the American University professor making headlines this week for breastfeeding her sick baby while teaching a class, says that she was surprised to face so much hostility for her choice. “It wasn’t the ideal option,” she told “Good Morning America,” “but the fact is, there were no ideal options and it was the [...]
Breastfeeding Professor Did What She Had To Do
As a mom who has nursed five babies, I think the professor at the center of the latest public breastfeeding brouhaha for nursing her sick baby in class was just doing what she had to do, and we should all cut her a little slack. Earlier this week, Adrienne Pine brought her infant daughter along [...]
Breastfeeding Military Moms Are Role Models
Photo: Brynja Sigurdardottir Photography Check out this snapshot of two military moms breastfeeding their babies in public. It has caused a huge uproar! Terran Echegoyen-McCabe and Christina Luna were photographed as part of a breastfeeding awareness campaign by a local Mom2Mom support group. My vote? I totally salute them. But you might be shocked by [...]
Favorite Baby Product: The Hospital Burp Cloth!
My absolute all-time favorite baby product is the hospital burp cloth. Watch to find out why I always asked the hospital staff to load me up with burp cloths every chance I could and for the umpteenth ways it has come in handy for me. I simply cannot live without it!
