Breast-feeding lobby criticises Jordan for infant formula 'stunt' Photos in 'OK!' magazine show Katie Price feeding her new child bottled milk. Critics say this is just a cynical way to get round the ban on advertising baby milk

The article is accompanied by an interview in which Price enthuses about the wonders of shop-bought baby milk. "It's brilliant. I don't have to sterilise or heat anything, you literally take the teat out, screw it on, and throw it away. I don't care what people say - you don't have to breast-feed."

She adds: "I don't want a baby drinking from me."

I wonder how much they paid her for that?

Baby milk ads 'should be banned'
click the link and have a read. What do you think?

Here is a story about a custody case. Court official recommends Mom stops breastfeeding

How about this - it is from the Harvard University Library archives. It is a statement issued by the New York Board of Health in 1914. Ten reasons a mother should nurse her baby.

I found this article about a young mum who had to pull off the mainroad to feed her 14 week old baby. She actually asked the parking inspector for permission, which he gave then he gave her a parking fine AND TOOK HER PHOTO!
If the article isn't alarming enough then read the comments after it.

To balance my previous blog here is a link to an article on optimizing the health of your formula fed baby.

I just found this fascinating article called The deadly influence of formula in America. By placing this link in my blog I am just trying to make the information available to people who may be choosing whether to breast or bottle feed. I intend no offense to women who fed their babies formula, I just want to make the information more available to people who may be making decisions about if or when to wean onto formula so that they have the option of making an educated choice.

I just found this really great web page - 101 Reasons to Breastfeed Your Child.
I didn't know that breastfeeding could help optimize her hand eye co-ordination, reduce her risk of MS later in life, reduce her risk of urinary tract infections and reduce her risk of developing some cancers.

Natalya now has two top teeth and two opposing lower teeth. Recently she has taken to grinding them and sometimes lately to biting my nipples. OUCH! I can't help myself I scream! And then I put her down on the floor for a minute. - She will be my surgeon for my nipple-ectomy!

I just found this site "Advantages of formula". The author has taken many of the common reasons women give for CHOOSING not to breastfeed and provided responses to them. I found it an interesting read. What do you think?

I just read this recent news article about a UK mother asked to leave Mc Donalds for breastfeeding her 13 week old baby. She was told it "wasn't appropriate to breastfeed" and that it was "upsetting teenagers".
When are people going to get the message. Babies need to be fed when they need to be fed. Breastfeeding in public should be acceptable. Nursing mothers should not have to put up with this sort of ignorance.

Before this week I can not remember a single day when Natalya had done less than 3 dirty nappies a day - in addition to all the wet ones. Then this week we had two days where she only did two dirty nappies. Just when I thought things must be slowing down... today by 1:40pm I had changed 5 dirty nappies on her! She puts forward a great argument for using cloth. We would be bankrupt if we had her in disposables full time. Not to mention the impact on landfill!

I just found this article about other uses for breast pads. Not sure about using them as coasters myself . Maybe I could try using them as knee pads when gardening. What novel uses can you think of for breast pads.

I just found an interesting news article about a lady who won a discrimination case against her employer. The conservative council then had the cheek to accuse her of wasting the peoples money. Have a read and see what you think.

My mother started suggesting that I start Natalya on solids when she was only a few months old. Her reasoning was that breast feeding would be tiring me and that introducing solids would reduce her demands on my body to produce milk. I refused.
Today I found an interesting article abstract. A French study  (Fatigue and Breastfeeding: An Inevitable Partnership?Callahan S, Sejourne N, Denis A 2006, Journal of Human Lactation 22(2):182-187.)found that breastfeeding mothers were no more fatigued that artificially feeding mothers. I guess it must just be motherhood that is tiring! You can find a summary of the article here if you are interested.

While I have not had any negative comments directed at me while breastfeeding in public not all of the mothers at mothers group have been as lucky. Recently one of the mothers was visiting a shopping centre in a nearby city.
She tried to use the parents room to feed (despite the nappy bin and change table being less than a metre away from the feeding couch) but was told by a staff member that  the floor was being repaired but she was welcome to feed anywhere in the centre.
She sat on a seat in the centre and discretely tried to feed her 6 month old daughter. A rude woman remarked "Some people will flop their tits out anywhere!"

Feel Free To Feed Campaign-- copied from the ABA website. - link at bottom.

Around the world the public breastfeeding debate continues to canvas media coverage. Despite the well-recognised health benefits of breastfeeding, many mums are still made to feel uncomfortable breastfeeding outside the home.

Feel Free To Feed, a joint campaign between the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA), Mothers Direct, My Child magazine and online boutique Nursingwear, is being launched for World Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7 2007. The partners invite you to join our campaign and support breastfeeding mothers at home, in public and in the workplace.

Most mums will need to breastfeed or express breastmilk outside their homes at some time, whether on an outing or when returning to work. Mothers need community and business support to make this a positive experience. Feel Free To Feed is a driving force behind gaining this support.

The campaign aims to raise the public profile of breastfeeding, making it more acceptable and accessible to new mums and their babies. The focus is on three key awards that support breastfeeding away from home: the ABA's Breastfeeding Welcome Here and Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace Accreditation, and the international Baby Friendly Health Initiative.

We invite you to join our campaign and support breastfeeding mothers at home, in public and in the workplace.

The Campaign Some women find breastfeeding easy. For others it is something that needs to be learnt, mastered and practised in a supportive environment. Whatever a woman's experience, having their workplace and community assist them in feeling free to feed may be the difference between continuing for as long as they would like and giving up because it's all too hard. JOIN IN TO WIN The Feel Free To Feed campaign runs from World Breastfeeding Week in August 2007 to August 2008. To goto the ABA website to read the rest click here

I dropped into a shop to buy some milk, etc on the way home this evening.I couldn't be bothered with the stroller or the baby bjorn harness so I just had Natalya on my hip. I grabbed a few things and ended up with two bags worth of shopping. The man at the till called one of his staff to come and carry my shopping to my car. How is that for service? Twice when we have been out for a meal recently the waitress has offered to hold Natalya so we could eat our meal. Both times we have taken them up on it. We only moved here 18 months ago, but i am glad we did. It is a friendly place to live.

I have been stressing out lately because my seven and a half month old daughter HATED solids. I tried rice cereal, pumpkin, avocado and sweet potato but she screamed through them all. Then last night on the trip to Perth, Haydon gave her a bit of potato from the inside of a hot potato chip. She LOVED it. So he gave her some more. Instead of trying to turn her head away or screaming blue murder she actively sought it out. Great! The first solids my daughter likes is junk food!

Natalya has a cold with a runny nose. Haydon has a headache & says he feels terrible.  Haydon has been at work. Natalya has been cranking all day. About noon I finally managed to put her down long enough to get dressed - I had also managed to get two loads of washing on the line.
I stuck her in the pram and walked down town to get bread. She finally fell asleep so I had a latte and a cake at the coffee shop.

Natalya is sleeping.  I am holding her because she will wake if I try to put her down. For goodness sake don't let the dogs start barking.

Buy old house meet lots of trades people and pay them lots of money!

The other day we took Natalya for a bushwalk. Check out her cool sunnies!