Well if it isn't father patriarchy ruling his ugly head. Angela Ames is fresh out of options after the US Supreme Court declined to hear her petition to get a lower court's ruling overturned (the Iowa mom was trying to sue her employer for gender discrimination after she was fired for breastfeeding). » 2/07/15 5:15pm 2/07/15 5:15pm

One person who won't give you any shit for breastfeeding in public, apparently: Pope Francis. » 1/12/15 1:30pm 1/12/15 1:30pm

Breast-feeding got you anxious about your holiday party schedule? Well, at least one person says that it's cool to drink spiked eggnog and then nurse your baby—just don't go crazy. » 12/23/14 6:00pm 12/23/14 6:00pm

In Illinois, it is legal to breastfeed anywhere. That's the law. Period. Here's the text of the law: » 11/19/14 5:03pm 11/19/14 5:03pm

Here's another sign of the non-end-times: An Australian woman took her university graduation photos breastfeeding her baby and the university posted it to their Facebook page congratulating her. They didn't take away her diploma and the post has gotten over 200,000 likes. What is this world coming to? » 11/05/14 6:10pm 11/05/14 6:10pm

What's the last place on Earth you would ever expect a mother to be thrown out of for breastfeeding her child? » 10/23/14 11:30pm 10/23/14 11:30pm

Jennifer Aniston appeared on Jimmy Kimmel's show Wednesday to talk about how ridiculously great her life is and to swoon about Kimmel's new baby. Then things got...interesting. » 8/28/14 11:00am 8/28/14 11:00am

Olivia Wilde graces the cover of Glamour's September issue. And, in a twist, instead of promoting a film, she's promoting the fact that this fall, she will cohost the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism Awards. Plus: Inside the issue, she's photographed breastfeeding. » 8/05/14 5:00pm 8/05/14 5:00pm

Because we live in a country in which many people are completely baffled by the idea that breasts are not filthy sin-pillows, women who breastfeed in public are frequently harassed, chastised and/or asked to leave. Well, sorry, boob-fearers, but it actually turns out that the law explicitly protects breastfeeding… » 8/01/14 6:40pm 8/01/14 6:40pm

New mothers are given a slew of conflicting advice: they're told they must breastfeed their baby or they're a terrible parent, but also that they must go back to work and earn money as soon as they can or they're a lazy person (or, you know, in the case of most people who work because they have to and not because they… » 7/24/14 7:15pm 7/24/14 7:15pm

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