breastfeeding
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Mommy on the Move: Chrissy Teigen Continues to Keep It Real About Motherhood
Chrissy Teigen has never been known for her shyness; she’s loud and proud about pertinent social issues, uses her spare time to play Twitter troll to the tangelo in chief, and has been open about the challenges she and husband John Legend faced in becoming parents to 2-year-old daughter Luna and 1-month-old son Miles. Teigen…
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The Best Kind of Bond: Meet the Facebook Group Offering Support and Sisterhood to Breastfeeding Moms
“The breast is best.” This is language many expectant mothers are familiar with. And yet there is still significant stigma surrounding breastfeeding, especially among black women. One Facebook group is trying to change that by letting black mothers know that breastfeeding is an accessible and incredible experience. Founded by Stacy Yeager, Ph.D., the Breastfeeding Support…
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Chocolate Milk Mommies Encourage Black Women to Breast-Feed in Stunning Photoshoot
Chocolate Milk Mommies, a parenting group out of Birmingham, Ala., is working to remove the stigma surrounding breast-feeding—especially in public—in black communities. And it has done it in the most visually stunning way possible—with members deciding to pose as breast-feeding “goddesses” in a nursing photoshoot for Black Breast-Feeding Week. “To us, a goddess theme was…
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Breast-Feeding: It's Not All It's Cracked Up to Be
I do not like breast-feeding. There, I said it. I’d been feeling like I couldn’t say it until I finally blurted it out the other night in a bout of frustration. My baby was going through her first growth spurt, which meant that she was feeding around the clock. Newborns tend to feed every one-and-a-half…
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Olivia Wilde Breastfeeds Son For Glamour Magazine. She Also Has Son Named "Otis"
I had been vaguely aware of people being bothered by public breastfeeding, but not until the advent of social media did I realize just how much of a “thing” it was. I think moments like this is why the hashtag, #onhere was created for Twitter. Because only “on there” do I see most of the debates about…