Momzelle Nursing News

Archive for January, 2009

Momzelle now has a picture gallery of breastfeeding moms

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

That’s it ! Our new website is on. It is not perfect, that’s for sure (one of the main problems being that the shopping cart empties when you click outside of the shopping window), but we are very proud to have a new section with photos of moms wearing Momzelle nursing tops.  They are beautiful ! Have a look, click on this link: http://www.momzelle.com/momzphotos.html 

Thank you so much for all the moms who sent their photos !

More pictures will be added as we receive them by email. Do you have a picture that you’d like to send us ? Please do so ! Send it to  ¨info at momzelle dot com¨

Have a great day everyone (snif, I know almost no one will read this, as I am only testing my ability to write a blog regularly. I am starting to enjoy this, and I wish we will make a deal out of it soon !).

Fake women nursing in public

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

 

Is he staring at a breastfeeding woman ?

Is he staring at a breastfeeding woman ?

Marin County in California is the stage of a new campaign promoting breastfeeding in public. Life size photographs of women breastfeeding their child are posted in public spaces, catching the eye of passers by. The idea is that people should not be surprised by seeing women nursing their child in public, as it is perfectly natural and legally protected in the area (as it should be everywhere). ¨When breastfeeding is accepted, it won’t be noticed¨, says every cardboard woman. Thumbs up for the Marin breastfeeding Coalition for putting in place such a great campaign !

Source: Bay area NBC

Nursing in an Hello Kitty maternity

Monday, January 26th, 2009

 

Pink Hello Kitty Maternity

Pink Hello Kitty Maternity

Lucky Taiwan mothers ;) , you can now give birth in a Hello Kitty maternity in Yuanlin ! The hospital, spread on 4 floors, was built in 2006 and claims to be the only one that has received Sanrio’s autorization to use his well known character Hello Kitty. From the waiting room where you can find a gigantic Hello Kitty sculpture dressed up in a doctor to the nursery and the nurses’ aprons, Hello Kitty is absolutely everywhere. This hospital offers 30 rooms and the mothers are offered a baby Hello Kitty receiving blanket in pink or in blue. The director Tsai Tsung-Chi hopes that this magical space will help alleviate the mothers’ pain and fears related to giving birth. Why not, after all ? It does change from the impersonnal white or greenish hospital delivery rooms that we are used to seeing. For a Hello Kitty fan who does not mind having a child in a very commercial setting, this may indeed make her feel good. For all others, it is either funny or scary.

The cost of mat leave

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

The city of Toronto Children Services has a childcare subsidy probram, which is great, and which I have been using for the past year. I just learned today that it is not possible to work part-time with a baby in a sling, and still bring the older child to daycare. They both need to go full time to daycare or not at all, which makes the transition from mat leave to work a little edgy if you can’t afford two full time spaces at daycare (over 3 000$/month for both children). Hum.. having a second kid requires a second thought.

How to obtain an article in the National Post

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Become a Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) entrepreneur ! The National Post features small business owners every week, and once a month it is an entrepreneur that benefits from the CYBF program that is under the spotlight. This January, it is Momzelle (www.momzelle.com) owners and siblings Vincent and Christine Poirier (me!) who are featured. To read the article, click on this link: http://www.financialpost.com/small_business/story.html?id=1167159

Sleep deprived mompreneurs

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

It is not easy everyday to be a mompreneur ( a mom and an entrepreneur). This morning I would have slept a little more after a hard night of little sleep with my toddler waking me every hour. Still, I have it easy compared to other moms who still take care of their kids AND of their business during their working hours. I do not know how they can manage, but I look at them admiringly. Coffee, anyone ?

The New Yorker writes about pumping milk

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Why would mothers want to pump their milk ?, asks Jil Lepore in today’s New Yorker article (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/19/090119fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=1). It may seem weird to give expressed human milk in a bottle (or spoon/cup), but it is really the second best option after giving breastmilk directly from the breast.  And what’s the third best option ? Giving expressed human milk from another mom.  The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, and continued breastfeeding for up to 2 years, as it is the best food for a healthy infant optimal growth.

This message is starting to reach a lot of moms, and I think a lot of them would nurse instead of pump if they could. Unfortunately, maternity leaves, especially in the USA, are very short, and breastfeeding exclusively for 6 months is next to impossible for most working moms, who then turn to breastpumps in order to give the best of what they have to their baby. Longer maternity leaves are synonymus with longer breastfeeding rates. If babies were accepted in the workplace, maybe the pumps (and the bottles, for that matter) would not be needed anymore.