Jezebel: Nursing

Groundbreaking Study Reveals Male Nurses Are Still Manly

Margaret Hartmann — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:42:00 EST

Naturally, people find it very troubling when someone holds a job traditionally associated with the opposite gender, but new research suggests that it's inaccurate and unwise to mock the male nurse responsible for jamming a needle into your arm. It's hard to belive that our ignorant stereotypes could be wrong, but it turns out that not all guys who go into nursing are girly men. More »

Who Says A Nursing Bra Can't Be Sexy?

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:30:00 EDT

A new item has come along to confuse the populace about whether breasts are for titillation or feeding babies: The sexy nursing bra. The items themselves aren't really revolutionary. They look the same as any other lingerie, but the cups snap open and there may be an extra hook in the back. However, since nursing women have been forced into hideous utilitarian undergarments for years, seeing a pregnant woman in a bra covered in pretty fabric and a bit of lace is controversial. More »

Porn Star Publicly Breastfeeds Her Baby, Gets Accused Of Promoting Pedophilia

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:55:00 EDT

Women are still routinely condemned for breastfeeding in public, and just this weekend, a mom was kicked out of an all-female gym for feeding her son. So, you can imagine what happened when a feminist porn director and actress decided to challenge the way people think about sex and motherhood with an art project about breastfeeding. More »

One Woman's Breast Is Another's Nightmare

Sadie Stein — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:38:00 EDT

It's still early, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that the award for best headline of the day should go to the New York Post and "Suit: Another woman's breast has ruined my life." More »

Can A Breastfeeding Boutique Survive In NYC?

Sadie Stein — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:06:00 EST

In what the NY Times terms a new "front...in the breast-feeding wars," a breastfeeding boutique is locked in combat with the real estate gods of Gotham. More »

Facebook Oversharing Gets Placental

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:35:00 EST

We all have annoying friends who post TMI-ish pictures of their own frozen placentas or their infants' detached navels, but four Kansas nursing students have decided to up the Facebook oversharing ante... by posting pictures of someone else's placenta. More »

Sex With Very Ill Patients: "Conduct Unbecoming Of A Nurse"

Sadie Stein — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:26:00 EDT

A Birmingham nurse has been suspended after it was discovered that she'd been conducting an affair with a critically-ill patient awaiting a heart and lung transplant. The man, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, confided in a clinical psychologist. [Daily Mail] More »

The Kush: Separating Your Breasts While You Sleep

Hortense Smith — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:30:00 EDT

According to InventorSpot, "the Kush a device made to support the breasts during sleep," and may prove useful to women who have larger breasts, are nursing or recovering from breast surgery. [InventorSpot] More »

A Cross To Wear

Anna Holmes — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:10:00 EDT

[Rome, June 2. Image via Getty]

The Breast Is A Tender Issue For Moms

Sadie Stein — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:40:00 EDT

A piece on the "breastfeeding myth" has sparked a debate about what makes a "good mom." And scared the rest of us. More »

Breastfeeding Myths Debunked For Barren Broads

Jessica G. — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:00:00 EST

This morning we told you about Kelly Rutherford, the Gossip Girl grande dame who is still breast feeding to lose weight. But recently, Salma Hayek told Oprah that she didn't lose a damn pound nursing. More »

TGIF

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:50:00 EDT

Big Cats & Dogs

Maria — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:45:00 EDT

A golden retriever named Isabella at Safari Zoological Park in southeast Kansas has adopted three white tiger cubs who were abandoned by their mother. After the birth mother ignored the cubs the zoo owner, Tom Harvey, found a nursing dog to help the cubs survive. White tigers are not as "genetically stable" as their orange brethren because they are the result of inbreeding, but we sure hope these cuties make it. [AP] More »

Breastfeeding A Friend's Baby: Bonding? Or A Blurring Of Boundaries?

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Earlier today Good Morning America reported that "cross nursing," or moms breastfeeding their friends' children, is on the rise. In the clip above, moms Sarah and Morgan explain that they started cross nursing one day when Morgan was watching Sarah's 3-month-old son. He was crying and wanted to nurse, and Morgan thought, "Okay, Buddy, we'll just go ahead and do this." (Morgan doesn't say she'd discussed this with Sarah beforehand, so there was probably a pretty awkward conversation when Sarah came to pick the baby up.) Now Morgan regularly breastfeeds Sarah's son, a practice that many mothers find "disgusting" or "weird", according to one poll. Sarah and Morgan (like writer Jennifer Baumgardner) say that cross nursing is actually a way for mothers to bond and create a sense of community. Clip above. More »

American Women Are Gaining (Low Wage, Dead End) Jobs As Economy Falters

Jessica G. — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:30:00 EDT

When it comes to American women and the potential and/or already-existing recession, there's good news, and there's bad news. The good news, according to Business Week: American women aged 20 and up gained nearly 300,000 jobs from November to April, while American men in the same age demographic lost nearly 700,000 jobs in that time period. In addition, in the private sector, the employment level for women went from 58.1% to 58.3%. Now the bad news! The jobs these women are getting aren't particularly good ones. Eileen Appelbaum, director of Rutgers University's Center for Women & Work, tells BW, "We had an expansion of jobs for home health aides, retail clerks, child-care workers. They're low-wage, they're dead-end, and they don't have any benefits." In addition, the pay gap is widening: the past year, median weekly earnings for men rose 4.6%, while it only grew 3.1% for women. Over 75% of those making over $100,000 are men, BW notes, even though women are graduating from college at higher rates. So what does this mean for the economy as a whole? More »

Earlier this week we mentioned a recent...

Jessica G. — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:45:00 EST

Earlier this week we mentioned a recent study showing that breast feeding could possibly raise IQ in newborns. Slate dissects the scientific background behind the findings, but what's remarkable and icky about the article is when writer Emily Bazelon gets all TMI and says in her intro, "My friends who quit [nursing] at three months seemed like rebels. And when I cut off my sons, after more than a year each, I felt a little heartless because I know so many kids who zealously nursed into toddlerhood." Into toddlerhood?!? I will paraphrase an early Sex and the City episode on this one. If they're old enough to ask for it, you probably shouldn't be breastfeeding them anymore. [Slate] More »