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.
A mother in Wisconsin says she was not allowed to provide breast milk for her infant during a recent stint in jail.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A woman in the Kansas City area is having a really hard time getting out of jury duty thanks to one judge’s seeming obstinance and Missouri’s arms-crossed, brows-furrowed stance on exempting jurors who breastfeed and don’t have adequate childcare options.
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.
Yogic breastfeeding mom Amy Woodruff, the woman whose inverted Instagram breastfeeding pose attracted lots of attention and unsolicited criticism from internet strangers (the most helpful kind of criticism), has been booted from Instagram, presumably for being just a pubic hair too naked for Instagram’s delicate…
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…
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.
Public breastfeeding is a topic mired in scandal. Well, maybe not scandal, but it's more like — some people really, really hate to see tits when they're not within the confines of their own darkened bedroom/strip club. It's almost as if dem titties (read: women's bodies) exist purely for male pleasure, or maybe some…
In early June, the wife of a Belgian diplomat attempted to breast-feed her young daughter on the terrace of a New York country club, setting off a chain of events that would lead to the woman and her husband being escorted from the club and treated like "terrorists" by police.
You totally forgot to send Amanda Bynes those get-well-soon flowers you'd been planning to send her the day of her penultimate nose surgery (just one more to go!), didn't you? Well, that day was yesterday, and now you'll have to wait who knows how long before you can express your well wishes to Amanda with a tasteful…
The woman who posed on the cover of Time totally stole her breastfeeding act from Victorian moms. Respect. (Although I'm firmly of the opinion that the kid in the photo on the left is actually that woman's husband.) (Or a time traveling Dom DeLuise.) (RIP.)
Busy Philipps, the lady who first gloriously sneered her way into your heart as Kim Kelly on Freaks and Geeks, is pregnant with her second baby. You see, Busy got busy and made a bus-aby! Tip your waitresses; I'll see my way out!
A study of the barium levels in a Neanderthal child's fossilized molar suggests that the child had been breastfed exclusively for seven months, and completely weaned by 14 months—way earlier than the attachment-parented kids in last year's Time cover story.
By the time you read this, we'll be gone. Well, actually, we haven't been around for a while now, but you're probably just noticing that now. This might come as a surprise to you, but we're not coming back.
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