After 30 years, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has finally improved its guidelines against pregnancy discrimination to coincide with common sense and decency. » 7/16/14 2:55pm 7/16/14 2:55pm

When 30-year-old Megan Christopherson was removed from the pit at a Brad Paisley concert with her 4-month-old strapped to her chest, police maintained that she could be found liable for child endangerment. But Christopherson is claiming that she was kicked out because she breastfed her child in the crowd. » 7/12/14 6:17pm 7/12/14 6:17pm

Julia Wykes of Ottawa was running errands last week when her baby became hungry while she was in line at Starbucks. In order to soothe the infant and (likely) keep the baby's cries from irritating the other customers, she sat down to breastfeed her baby. That's when an irate customer demanded that she be forced to… » 7/02/14 10:40am 7/02/14 10:40am

After provoking anger for years with its bizarre "breastfeeding photos are inappropriate for the Internet" policy, Facebook has finally freed the nipple (on the condition that it is in or near the mouth of a breastfeeding child). » 6/13/14 4:50pm 6/13/14 4:50pm

Woman graduates from Cal State Long Beach with a Bachelor’s degree. Yay! Woman breast-feeds her daughter during graduation day and posts a photo of it. Boo, says the Internet. » 6/10/14 10:40am 6/10/14 10:40am

Women's health groups in Mexico City are understandably unimpressed by the city's new strategy to encourage and normalize breastfeeding with mothers. The series of posters, which has already been taken down from the city's website, feature a few very slender and toned female celebrities topless and braless. … » 5/26/14 5:53pm 5/26/14 5:53pm

A federal appeals court has ruled a woman cannot sue her employee after she said they denied her a room to pump breast milk in and pressured her to resign. » 3/19/14 10:30pm 3/19/14 10:30pm

Project Breastfeeding is a photo campaign featuring fathers pretending to breastfeed their infants. Its slogan, "If I could, I would," is meant to show male support of breastfeeding, but inadvertently comes off as another source of pressure in the "Breast is best" debate. » 3/05/14 11:40am 3/05/14 11:40am

A mother in Wisconsin says she was not allowed to provide breast milk for her infant during a recent stint in jail. » 3/04/14 9:32am 3/04/14 9:32am

Formula-feeding has been vilified in recent years, with new moms being told that if they don't breastfeed, they could be putting their child at risk for a slew of health, behavioral and developmental problems. But the findings of a new study suggest that's total bullshit. Breast might actually not be best. » 2/28/14 10:40am 2/28/14 10:40am

According to Alabama state law, a woman has the right to breastfeed in public. But that didn't stop an official from booting a Mobile woman out of court for doing just that. » 2/04/14 11:30pm 2/04/14 11:30pm

What if you had a baby and the government said it was illegal for your not to breastfeed that child? Well, in the United Arab Emirates that’s pretty much exactly what has happened and now women who don’t breastfeed can be sued by their husbands. » 1/31/14 7:20pm 1/31/14 7:20pm

One woman is out of a job and another is facing charges following an incident at restaurant in Conway, Ark. involving a mother drinking alcohol while nursing her child. » 11/29/13 4:15pm 11/29/13 4:15pm

The black market for human breast milk has turned into something of a cottage industry in recent years, but a new study has found that the milk donated through swaps or sold on the Internet often contains high levels of potentially dangerous bacteria, including salmonella. » 10/21/13 10:50am 10/21/13 10:50am

Breastfeeding moms can "sparkle, Neely, sparkle" according to a report by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which says most prescription drugs do not pose a threat to infants' health. » 8/26/13 11:10am 8/26/13 11:10am

Lucy Eades of Burleson, Texas, was nursing her 16-day-old daughter while her other daughter was in dance class. An employee of the Burleson Recreation Center took it upon herself to be the boob police and asked Eades to cover up Those Which Are Most Sacred. Awesomely, Eades didn't back down and correctly informed the… » 8/09/13 10:00am 8/09/13 10:00am

You can only breastfeed on an American Airlines flight if you do so with a "certain discretion and a sense of modesty" endorsed by a flight attendant, according to one angry lactating flyer. » 8/06/13 6:15pm 8/06/13 6:15pm