A microscopic glimmer of positive out of the Chinese milk tragedy… But it’s not just a Chinese thing - whilst other countries don’t tend to put melamine in their milk, don’t imagine for one moment that formula is 100% safe, wherever in the world you are.
When you breastfeed, you control the milk production - from [...]
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Jamie Lynn’s baby, Britney’s niece, is breastfed - we know this because allegedly, photos of her breastfeeding the baby are being offered for sale by a Wal-Mart employee after Casey, baby Maddie’s dad, took the memory card in to be processed.
It’s apparently an offence to sell photos of a minor with an exposed breast, whether taken [...]
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Half Pint Pixie blogs about the thorny Nestlé issue - expect more sponsorship of fluffy child-friendly events in the run-up to the launch of Nestlé formula in the UK. They were sponsoring the Netmums Coffee House last year (to loud outcry from many) and now it’s Childline.
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In China, more than 50 babies have kidney stones and another has died - tests showed the formula was tainted with toxic melamine, in order to make the product appear rich in protein. 700 tonnes of infant formula has been recalled by Sanlu Group Co. The formula isn’t sold outside China. For more on this [...]
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I had mastitis when my youngest son was ten days old. I’d had a hot, sore lump on my breast since that morning and frequent feeds weren’t doing much to soften it. As it got redder, my temperature went up and I began to feel fluey. Not pleasant!
To relieve the pain, I got a wide-toothed [...]
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Samantha Corbridge was kicked out of a Sheffield Job Centre for feeding her baby. Same old, same old, you might think, already feeling the familiar prickle of righteous indignation that a woman breastfeeding her baby was discriminated against.
But not this time. This is the first time I’ve heard of it (although I’m sure it’s not [...]
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