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Much-needed support for breastfeeding working moms
KBoffi | | 
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As every mom knows, the joys of motherhood inevitably include multitasking. New moms grow accustomed to being pulled in different directions almost as quickly as they adapt to functioning on little or no sleep. Needless to say, such multitasking is most definitely on the radar of working moms and breastfeeding working moms in particular.
Despite the many nursing rooms cropping up in major offices around San Francisco, the array of pumping materials, nursing pads and more, breastfeeding and working still often exist in mutually exclusive corners. California Pacific Medical Center’s Newborn Connections is working to alter that misconception.
moms, breastfeeding, working, newborn connections (all tags)
Start Blogging!
BrittG | | 0
We now have blogs (and could not be more excited)! Now you can make your BabySteps experience even more personal. Share the joys of parenthood and vent on sleepless nights and fussy babies. Find others to identify with in your neighborhood. Post pictures and keep a record as you grow along with your children!
In regards to the photo contest for Pottery Barn Kids, the photos are rolling in! We have over 150 submissions so far. Thank you to all who have taken the time to enter. Please TELL your friends, families, and parent groups to enter. Join us in our goal is to spread breastfeeding awareness throughout the Bay Area in a a fun and exciting way. All of your pictures are truly beautiful and we can't wait to see more to come.
Don't forget that the last day to enter is March, 31st.Enter here: http://www.cpmcbabysteps.org/enter/contest
blogs, blogging, pottery barn kids, photo contest, breastfeeding, newborn connections, laction consultants (all tags)
Mothers against Facebook breast-feeding ban
BrittG | | 0
Are you going to take action?
updated 6:31 a.m. PT, Tues., Dec. 30, 2008
Are photographs of a mother breast-feeding her child indecent?
The social networking site Facebook has sparked a massive online debate — and protests — and after removing photos that expose too much of a mother's breast.
Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said the Web site takes no action over most breast-feeding photos because they follow the site's terms of use but others are removed to ensure the site remains safe and secure for all users, including children.
"Photos containing a fully exposed breast (as defined by showing the nipple or areola) do violate those terms (on obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material) and may be removed," he said in a statement.
"The photos we act upon are almost exclusively brought to our attention by other users who complain."
But Facebook's decision to ban some breast-feeding photos has angered some users, including U.S. mother Kelli Roman whose photograph of her feeding her daughter was removed by Facebook.
Roman is one of the administrators of an online petition called "Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!" which has picked up speed in the past week after protesters organized a virtual "nurse-in" on Facebook and held a small demonstration outside Facebook's office in Palo Alto, California
Visit at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28433838/
For all you breastfeeding moms, what are your thoughts??
Peninsula Breastfeeding Center in Burlingame, CA
Babiesandmoms | | 0
The Peninsula Breastfeeding Center is the most amazing place for new moms who need breastfeeding support and lacation services!
breastfeeding, lactation services, consults, CPR, weight gain, bras, Sheila Janakos (all tags)
Join our new group! Working and Breastfeeding!
Glenda | | 0
You can continue to provide your baby with breast milk after you return to work!
Newborn Connections now offers
Working and Breastfeeding, a support group designed to address the unique needs of working mothers. All mothers are welcome whether you are pregnant, considering returning to work, or have already returned to work.
Join us as we discuss:
• Planning your return to work
• Easing the transition
• Continuing to breastfeed
• Pumping
• Establishing a routine
• Taking care of yourself and the baby
• And more!
Vitamin D Deficiency May Lurk in Babies
BrittG | | 1
By RONI CARYN RABIN
Published: August 25, 2008
NYTimes.com
Until she was 11 months old, Aleanie Remy-Marquez could have starred in an advertisement for breast milk. She took to nursing easily, was breast-fed exclusively for six or seven months, and ate little else even after that. She was alert and precocious and developed at astonishing speed, her mother said, sitting at four months and walking by eight months.
But once Aleanie started putting weight on her feet, her mother noticed that her legs were curving in a bow shape below the knees. Doctors diagnosed vitamin D-deficiency rickets, a softening of the bones that develops when children do not get enough vitamin D — a crucial ingredient for absorbing calcium and building bone, and the one critical hormone that breast milk often cannot provide enough of.
No Apologies for My Lactivism
BrittG | | 0
What are your thoughts on lactivism?
Source: parentsconnect.com
How did a goody-two-shoes like me suddenly become an activist?
I show up at La Leche League meetings. I press my pregnant friends to breastfeed. I could go on and on about the benefits of foremilk and hindmilk and all of the milk in between. I breastfed my son for a year and a half and I'm well on my way to breastfeeding my daughter for longer than that.
