Your Baby Is a Vampire and So Is Mine
While human people are sleeping, my baby awakes. She whines and wriggles over to my listless body. Leading with her pale, swollen cheeks and newly cut teeth, she pounces on my chest. My flesh of my...
View ArticleWendy Williams on Public Breastfeeding: 'I Don't Need to See That'
Earlier today, TV host Wendy Williams had on actress Alyssa Milano to debate the issue of breastfeeding in public. Wendy, it turns out, is not for it!Read more...
View ArticleAustralian Lawmakers Now Free to Breastfeed in Parliament
Life’s a little less logistically complicated for the nursing mothers of the Australian House of Representatives, who—thanks to new, deliberately more family-friendly policies—can now breastfeed in...
View ArticleFinally There's One Good Thing About the Atlanta Airport: Traveling Moms Now...
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport has introduced nursing rooms, which is great news for the many families who are well-acquainted with the experience of getting trapped there! Read more...
View ArticleI'm Inspired By This Elephant's Massive Honkers
South African wildlife photographer Renata Ewald was traveling in Kruger National Park when she saw this mother elephant with one terrific pair of breasts. Read more...
View ArticlePilots Sue Frontier Airlines Over Breast Pumping at Work
Earlier this week, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Colorado filed discrimination charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of four pilots for Frontier...
View ArticleHeroic Woman Somehow Gives Birth to 3 Sets of Twins in Under 3 Years
A woman in Kansas City, Kansas has given birth to three sets of fraternal twins in around two years. Yes, you read that correctly: Six children, two years, one woman, and what we can assume is zero...
View ArticleWoman Officer Says NYPD Won't Give Her Breaks to Breast Pump at Work
In New York City, a woman cop says her superiors won’t allow her to breast pump at work, which is like forcing her to endure 10,000 tiny daggers stabbing her from inside her boob while starving her...
View ArticleNew Law Mandates Breastfeeding Rooms in NYC City Buildings
A law signed in New York on Thursday will require several public locations in the city to have breastfeeding rooms, including child service’s offices and health centers.Read more...
View ArticleMom Scolded for Breastfeeding in a Bra Store Surrounded By Pictures of Boobs
Image via alldrow/Shutterstock.Welcome to America, where it’s OK to festoon the walls of a department store with high-res images of boobs, but it’s not OK for a mother to nurse her baby next to...
View ArticleFor the 5th Time, Yes, Pope Francis Is Serious About Breastfeeding in the...
If you were planning on asking the pope’s permission to breastfeed, you don’t have to, because the answer is an emphatic screaming-from-the-rooftops YES, sí, oui, ja, はい, 是, every God blessed language...
View ArticleTransgender 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 literature of induced lactation in a transgender woman,” according to the case report...
View ArticleDonald Trump Loves Breastfeeding, Says Donald Trump
Donald Trump, whose administration declined to support an international resolution to dispel myths about breastfeeding to instead side with infant formula manufacturers, has tweeted to clarify that no,...
View ArticleChrissy 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, Chrissy Teigen was asked by a fan to share more photos of her pumping. “You shared a...
View ArticleMother Charged With Homicide After Her Baby Died From Drugs Allegedly...
On Friday, 30-year-old Samantha Whitney Jones of New Britain Township, Pennsylvania was charged with criminal homicide over the death of her 11-week-old infant on April 2. The district attorney has...
View ArticleThe '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 baby—or, as Good Morning America nauseatingly put it, she’s a “model mom...
View ArticleDon'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 children. David Whitley, a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has a cute li’l op-ed piece out...
View ArticleArgentine Woman Who Breastfed Abandoned 7-Month Old Child Gets Promoted
Area woman with beating heart reminds us all what compassion looks like.Read more...
View ArticleMore 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 the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit. The sight of a baby with a pacifier popped in her...
View ArticleThe Horrifyingly Relatable Specter of a Mom Still Breastfeeding Her...
As my baby has crossed over the one-year mark, while still breastfeeding part-time, I have started to take notice of the “weirdo” moms. The ones still breastfeeding their babies past whatever...
View ArticleWomen 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 security, according to reporting by The New York Times. Managers at the prison did not...
View ArticleThe Cute, Viral Note Left by a Working Mom Pumping Was Really an Act of...
Earlier this month, Emily Edgington was working alone at a Family Dollar in Mansfield, Ohio and needed to pump breastmilk for her three-month-old baby. There was no one to relieve her during the break,...
View ArticleWhat 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 breastmilk is really good for babies, it’s most beneficial when delivered directly from...
View ArticleStone 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 to feed animal milk to children, allowing earlier weaning and, very likely, a...
View ArticleThe 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, deeply on-brand partnership called Motherhood on the Move. Medela is stocking The...
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