Parents group rallying for breastfeeding

23.02.12 / Breastfeeding News / Author: / Comments: (0)

Claire Slobin had looked everywhere — the hallways at North Thornhill Community Centre, the meeting rooms, youth play room, even the public washroom packed with festival-goers — but there was nowhere to breastfeed six-month-old Ethan.
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Breastfeeding moms 'can pass on caffeine in coffee to child'

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Cut down your coffee consumption, for researchers say that breastfeeding mothers can pass on the caffeine in coffee through their milk. A team at Rochester University in New York says that drinking coffee, tea and soft drinks and even eating chocolate ...
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Nudity bad, gore okay … Facebook ban list revealed

23.02.12 / Breastfeeding News / Author: / Comments: (0)

Pictures of breastfeeding are banned if nipples are exposed but graphic images of dead animals, crushed limbs and drug-taking are allowed, according to a leaked document showing what Facebook considers acceptable. "Deep flesh wounds" and "crushed heads ...
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Tips for what to do when you are sick and expecting or nursing

22.02.12 / Breastfeeding News / Author: / Comments: (0)

It happens to everyone, after all, but there are a few things to especially bear in mind for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding during flu and cold season. The Daily Herald talked to Julia Robertson, director of the pregnancy risk line of the Utah ...
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Researchers confirm WIC breastfeeding rate data

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Los Angeles, (February 22, 2012)—While medical professionals have long known breastfeeding positively impacts infant and maternal health, few effective tools are available to measure breastfeeding practices nationally. According to a new study, ...
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Let's put Facebook's 'no nipples' rule to test with your breastfeeding photos

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Because right there, sandwiched between "depiction of sexual assault or rape" and "bestiality, necrophilia and pedophilia" is "breastfeeding photos showing other nudity, or nipple clearly exposed". It might be helpful to be clear here: breastfeeding is ...
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Breastfeeding in Church Is a Sin That Only Strippers Commit

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Mary breastfeeding JesusThere are a lot of things that shouldn't be done in church. I don't need to list them, do I? We all know what they are, even the heathens. And in one church in Savannah, Georgia, breastfeeding is on the list of lewd things you ...
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See the Controversial Photo of a Dad Bottle-Feeding His Baby — Does This …

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Breastfeeding activists in New Zealand raised so much of a stink over an ad featuring a dad bottle-feeding his baby that the New Zealand government actually decided to edit the image above out of the ad. While the government's decision could be viewed ...
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Breastfeeding mothers may pass on caffeine in coffee through their milk

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By Claire Bates Mothers who are struggling to get their babies to sleep should consider how much caffeine they are consuming, according to a breast feeding expert. Drinking coffee, tea and soft drinks and even eating chocolate increases the level of ...
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Facebook's nudity and violence guidelines are laid bare

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Facebook bans images of breastfeeding if nipples are exposed – but allows "graphic images" of animals if shown "in the context of food processing or hunting as it occurs in nature". Equally, pictures of bodily fluids – except semen – are allowed as ...
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