Posts Tagged by Breastfeeding

Mamascarf Breastfeeding Cover Giveaway

June 20, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Competitions, Products
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I have written before on my feelings on feeding covers, so I won’t dwell on it too much here. Suffice it to say this: If a mother wants to breastfeed, but is shy to do so in public, and faced with a bottle of formula or feeding cover, I would rather she went for the…

What’s In Store For National Breastfeeding Awareness Week

June 18, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Competitions, Products
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The week ahead is National Breastfeeding Awareness Week. If breastfeeding isn’t something that interests you, you might find the week a little overwhelming. I apologise for that in advance. Don’t worry, next week will be here before you know it.

What If This Were Your Baby?

June 17, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Current Events
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It’s taken me almost as long to come up with a title for this post as it has to write it.  “When government agencies steal babies”? Too X-Files. “Child Abduction At The Hands of Authorities”?  Too sweeping.  “What about Habiba”? Too vague. This is the story: A woman, Habiba, fled Morocco to Madrid, Spain, to…

Pic Of The Week 52-14

April 13, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Pic Of The Week, Projects
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Our final days in South Africa saw us busy busy with clearing out, getting rid of, and packing up for our new, old lives. It’s amazing how much you can gather in a short time – and I guess the principle of a little bit at a time really adding up extends to more than…

Friday Favourites – More Thoughts On Support

March 25, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Friday Features
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I mentioned yesterday about a post written by Dagmar Bleasdale, and I am mentioning it again today as the favourite post I’ve read this week. While the point of the post was more about bloggers, brands and the undermining of breastfeeding by formula companies, that wasn’t what struck me about it. But there were so…

Lactivism, Breast Feeding, Bottle Feeding, Formula And Mothers At War

March 24, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Current Events
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If you’re easily offended or like a good fight, now might be a good time to look away. I’m talking about the World War 3 of parenting: breast vs bottle. Actually, that’s not entirely true. I also want to talk about lactivism – that word that raises heckles, and shouts of ‘nazi’ and bully and…

Breastfeeding and Race: South Africa

March 14, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Around Africa, Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Current Events, Travel
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*** Welcome March Carnival of Breastfeeding readers.*** I find myself in a strange situation. I am one of my race, yet not of my culture. I fit in to a race that is not mine – yet am part of its culture. But let me start at the beginning and explain myself a little better…

Attachment Parenting In Nature

February 24, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Baby Led Weaning, Breastfeeding, Discovering Nature, Incidental Learning, Raising Conscious Children
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Becoming a mother has changed me in more ways than I knew possible. I am passionate today about things I’d never heard of two years ago. I also spend a lot more time around animals than I ever did before, since we’ve tried to get Ameli outdoors and into nature as much as possible. Over…

Do Breastfed Babies/Toddlers Need To Brush Their Teeth?

February 17, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding
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Perhaps it was because our clinic happened to be based in one of the more deprived areas of London that our health visitors were particularly hot on tooth brushing. Ameli received her first toothbrush and toothpaste set at around two months of age, while her first teeth arrived at four months. The second set came…

Free* Breastfeeding Cover – To Cover Or Not To Cover Really Isn’t A Question

February 14, 2011 Posted by Luschka under Products, Reviews
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One of the most annoying “politics of breastfeeding” I came across when I started breastfeeding was the ‘To Cover or Not To Cover‘ question. Some breastfeeding activists are vehemently against mothers using breastfeeding covers. Their view is something along the lines that mothers shouldn’t have to hide the fact that they’re breastfeeding. Which, of course,…


One of the most annoying “politics of breastfeeding” I came across when I started breastfeeding was the ‘To Cover or Not To Cover‘ question. Some breastfeeding activists are vehemently against mothers using breastfeeding covers. Their view is something along the lines that mothers shouldn’t have to hide the fact that they’re breastfeeding. Which, of course, I agree with.

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