World Breastfeeding Week

9 Ways Google Can Make Breastfeeding Normal

Dionna Ford | Posted 04.11.2012

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Dionna Ford

Wouldn't it be amazing if Google used its global influence to help us normalize breastfeeding? Of course the real normalization of nursing happens every time a mother breastfeeds a child. But nursing is also normalized each time we see it on TV, in books, on Facebook, and yes, on Google and the Internet as a whole.

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Are Breastfeeding Activists Attacking The Wrong Group?

| Posted 12.07.2011

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By Joanna Weiss (Click here for the original article.) Raise a (nonalcoholic, noncaffeinated) toast! This is World Breastfeeding Week—in Canada, ...

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Breastfeeding Benefits--for Moms

Amy Sohn | Posted 11.17.2011

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Amy Sohn

Even if it makes no difference to babies' future obesity, allergies, or IQ, mothers should still nurse -- for themselves.

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Real Health(y) Care Reform: It's World Breastfeeding Awareness Week

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 11.17.2011

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Karen Kisslinger

Far too little attention is given to the fact that it is well known that access to breast milk in infancy and beyond is protective against later childhood and later life obesity.

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