The second annual World Milksharing Week (Sept 24-30) is approaching fast and my family has much to celebrate. Our baby boy has been fed with human donor milk for the past 17 months. I breastfeed him, but I don't make all the milk he needs, so...

Recently I noticed that at the top of The New York Times' "most-emailed" articles list was yet another post about the hardships of breastfeeding and the bullies in the medical establishment who continue to berate us with the message, "breast is best." This particular one was titled "The...

Leslie Feinberg, celebrated transgender author and inspiration to thousands of young queer individuals including myself, was arrested June 4 after protesting the prison sentence handed down to Chrishuan "CeCe" McDonald, a transgender woman of color. Feinberg marched with hundreds of other protesters but was the only person detained...

One of the basic principles of attachment parenting is "safe sleep," meaning that a loving parent attends to his or her child's emotional and physical needs at night as well as during the day. Many attachment-minded families find that sleeping together with their baby is the best way to accomplish...

I gave birth to my baby, but I'm not a mother -- I'm a transgender man. I transitioned from female to male at the age of 23. A few short years late, I married the love of my life, Ian, and we decided to start a family. I got the...

In the comments section of my previous piece, "How I Learned to be a Breastfeeding Dad," I noticed some confusion concerning the ins and outs of milk sharing. That topic is the focus of the following post.

I must confess that I've always been a bit of a...

Near the end of my pregnancy, I went to my first breastfeeding support meeting, facilitated by La Leche League. I was excited at the opportunity to learn, and terribly nervous in a room full of strangers -- I was a guy at a women-only peer-to-peer help group.