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Republicans Are Weaponizing the Baby Formula Shortage, While Parents Panic

This formula shortage is far more than a political talking point: It’s proof that widespread support for women and…

Emily Leibert

5/10/22 5:45PM

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Covid Turned Me Into That Mom Who Breastfeeds a Little Too Long

I didn't think I'd be pulling a boob out for a rowdy preschooler, but my son and I were fighting more than stares in…

Kelly MacLean

3/14/22 10:52AM

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A Woman Was Reportedly Caught Breastfeeding Her Hairless Cat on an Airplane, And I Have Questions

There are limits to a mother's love, and we may have found the line.

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Rachel Bloom Feels 'Comfortable and Relieved' After Breast Reduction Surgery

The Emmy-winning creator and star Crazy Ex-Girlfriend says she sought out the procedure to alleviate major…

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Is This a Boy Nipple or a Girl Nipple?

Only one kind of nipple is welcome on Instagram, but who's to say it's not this one?

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One of the Duggar Spawn Fed Their Dog Years-Old Frozen Breast Milk, So That's How Things Are Going

The Duggars: remember them? Here’s Jill, who keeps an understandable distance between herself and the family at large

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The Shameful Luxury of Lactation Spaces

The women’s co-working space The Wing and breast pump manufacturer Medela have teamed up for a mutually beneficial,…

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Stone Age Parents Used Sippy Cups, Too

A new study suggests that small pottery cups from Stone Age central Europe were, in fact, basically sippy cups used…

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What the Hell Are We Supposed to Do With This New Research About Breast Milk?

Brace yourself for another public debate about breastfeeding, because there’s new research that finds that, while…

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The Cute, Viral Note Left by a Working Mom Pumping Was Really an Act of Desperation

Earlier this month, Emily Edgington was working alone at a Family Dollar in Mansfield, Ohio and needed to pump…

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Women Working at Prisons Are Forced to Smuggle in Breast Pumps

Women working at Virginia’s Deerfield Correctional Center risked their jobs just to smuggle breast pumps past…

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The Horrifyingly Relatable Specter of a Mom Still Breastfeeding Her Four-Year-Old

As my baby has crossed over the one-year mark, while still breastfeeding part-time, I have started to take notice…

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More Babies at the U.N., Please and Thanks

On Monday, Jacinda Ardern, prime minister of New Zealand, brought her baby along to the U.N. General Assembly for…

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Argentine Woman Who Breastfed Abandoned 7-Month Old Child Gets Promoted

Area woman with beating heart reminds us all what compassion looks like.

Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo

8/23/18 6:30PM

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8/13/18

Don't Tell Me Where I Can Pull Out My Tiddy

There is a man, who has never breastfed a child, with some opinions about how women should breastfeed their…

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The 'Empowerment' of Breastfeeding Has Become a Farce

Model Mara Martin walked the runway during the Paraiso x SI Swimsuit show on Sunday with her actively breastfeeding…

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Mother Charged With Homicide After Her Baby Died From Drugs Allegedly Transmitted Through Breast Milk

On Friday, 30-year-old Samantha Whitney Jones of New Britain Township, Pennsylvania was charged with criminal…

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Chrissy Teigen: 'Creepy' Men Try to Photograph Me Pumping Breastmilk

After posting a photo of herself breastfeeding her son Miles (and daughter Luna’s doll) on Instagram this week,…

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Donald Trump Loves Breastfeeding, Says Donald Trump

Donald Trump, whose administration declined to support an international resolution to dispel myths about…

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Transgender Woman Breastfeeds Baby in First Reported Case

A 30-year-old transgender woman was able to breastfeed her baby in what is “the first formal report in the medical…

Prachi Gupta

2/15/18 5:00PM

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