Breast Milk Sold Online Is Often Contaminated
The black market
The 'Breast is Best' Policy and Why Breastfeeding Should Receive the…
Typically when a woman experiences difficulty with breastfeeding she's told to keep working at it because she's probably just doing it wrong. After all, it's what her body is meant to do. But our bodies are meant to do a lot of things—like produce insulin, eat peanuts, or get pregnant—that they sometimes can't. Why do…
Fuck You, Breastfeeding
Last week was Fuck You Week, Jezebel's first annual week of desperate emotional cleansing and unhinged psychic purging. But Friday took a turn for the awful and we didn't run our final entries. So we're doing that now.
Chicago’s ‘Milk Ladies’ Are Still Delivering Formula After 30 Years
The so-called "milk ladies," the founders of a nonprofit group based in Winnekta, Illinois, have made it their mission for the past 30 years to deliver cases of brand-name formula to Chicago mothers who cannot afford to feed their children. Infant Inc., the official name of the milk ladies' nonprofit, also delivers…
How Restrictive Is New York’s Breastfeeding Programme, Really?
Since news
New York City Will Encourage Moms to Breastfeed by Locking Up All the…
Breastfeeding, according to all the trendiest news stories, is the best thing ever — it turns your baby into a super genius with a brain the size of a mutated cantaloupe and all but ensures that child's eventual acceptance into an elite university, either Oxford or the Sorbonne, but maybe Harvard as a back-up. There…
Breastfeeding Gestapo Moves to Ban Free Formula Samples from Hospitals
When you deliver a baby in a hospital you get a nice big swag bag of supplies to take home with you. Mine contained swaddle blankets, diapers, Vaseline, a baby brush, a nasal aspirator, giant maxi pads, mesh panties, nipples, and baby formula. But the consumer advocate group Public Citizen takes exception to the…
Baby Formula: The Next Frontier in Arsenic's Battle to Exterminate Us
We already knew that rice was trying to kill us with its deadly arsenic
Similac Recall: Breastfeeders, Hold The Sanctimony
A few months ago when Children's Tylenol, Motrin and Claritin were recalled, I ended up tossing almost everything in my medicine cabinet.
"Moon" Butt-Enhancement Sends Six To Hospital • Women Avoid Calling 911
• New Jersey health officials report a recent influx in women hospitalized with infections from black-market butt-enhancement injections. ix women from the Dominican Republic were brought in with backsides resembling "moonscapes" and deep tissue infections from the hazardous mixture. •