I love this one.  It’s part of a series from Canada published in the 1990′s.

The small print says “you’ve got what it takes to make a healthy baby and it doesn’t cost a thing”

Have you seen a great breastfeeding ad around your town, in a magazine or online?  Please share!

I am truly excited for the breastfeeding relationship only I will be able to have with my child.  Because of my work on this blog and my involvement with an amazing community of online breastfeeding mothers, I feel that I will confidently breastfeed in public.  I just hope that if (or when, as it seems more often) I run into negative reactions I will remember this “confidence” I have now!

Last month there was an article about a Michigan judge that deemed breastfeeding (discreetly in the back of his courtroom) “inappropriate”.  Read the article here.  It seems everyday I read about more women feeling embarassed or belittled when breastfeeding in public.  Breastfeeding is normal!! I don’t want to breastfeed in public to make a statement of my rights and responsibilities.  I want to breastfeed because that is what is best for my child.

I would like to see this stop being an issue.  Bottle-feed or breastfeed, the idea is that if you are out with your baby you should not feel weird about feeding it!

Do you feel comfortable breastfeeding in public?  How do we make breastfeeding the cultural norm?

Take a minute to help stop Nestle’s latest baby milk marketing scam.
http://info.babymilkaction.org/pressrelease/pressrelease16jun10

You probably know about the Nestle boycott and the way Nestle pushes its baby milk around the world.

Nestle’s latest global strategy is to promote its baby milk with the claim that it ‘protects’ babies, even though it knows babies fed on it are more likely to become sick than breastfed babies and, in conditions of poverty, more likely to die. Nestle is claiming its baby milk aids brain and eye development and supports the immune system. It has added prominent, colourful logos to product labels in 120 countries, undermining the obligatory ‘breastfeeding is best for babies’ warnings that the boycott campaign helped to bring in. Nestle is also targeting health workers to promote its claims.

Nestle’s claims do not stand up to scrutiny and break the international marketing standards introduced by the World Health Assembly.

According to UNICEF: “Improved breastfeeding practices and reduction of artificial feeding could save an estimated 1.5 million children a year”. As UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, governments and health campaigners try to spread the message that breastfeeding protects babies, Nestle is using its massive resources to try to convince mothers and health workers that its baby milk ‘protects’.

For further information and a message that takes ONE MINUTE to send to Nestlé, see:

http://info.babymilkaction.org/news/campaignblog260510

Dr. Seuss for Nursing Moms

Would you nurse her in the park?
Would you nurse him in the dark?
Would you nurse him with a Boppy?
And when your boobs are feeling floppy?

I would nurse him in the park,
I would nurse her in the dark.
I’d nurse with or without a Boppy.
Floppy boobs will never stop me.

Can you nurse with your seat belt on?
Can you nurse from dusk till dawn?
Though she may pinch me, bite me, pull,
I will nurse her `till she’s full!

Can you nurse and make some soup?
Can you nurse and feed the group?
It makes her healthy strong and smart,
Mommy’s milk is the best start!

Would you nurse him at the game?
Would you nurse her in the rain?
In front of those who dare complain?
I would nurse him at the game.
I would nurse her in the rain.

As for those who protest lactation,
I have the perfect explanation.
Mommy’s milk is tailor made
It’s the perfect food, you need no aid.

Some may scoff and some may wriggle,
Avert their eyes or even giggle.
To those who can be cruel and rude,
Remind them breast’s the perfect food!

I would never scoff or giggle,
Roll my eyes or even wiggle!
I would not be so crass or crude,
I KNOW that this milk’s the perfect food!

We make the amount we need
The perfect temp for every feed.
There’s no compare to milk from breast-
The perfect food, above the rest.

Those sweet nursing smiles are oh so sweet,
Mommy’s milk is such a treat.
Human milk just can’t be beat.
I will nurse, in any case,
On the street or in your face.

I will not let my baby cry,
I’ll meet her needs, I’ll always try.
It’s not about what’s good for you,
It’s best for babies, through and through.

I will nurse her in my home,
I will nurse her when I roam.
Leave me be lads and ma’am.
I will nurse her, Mom I am.

Aurthor unknown

Thank you to Jennifer Land, doula, for posting a link to this very cute breastfeeding poem on her Facebook page, Little Landings!

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