Today I’m excited to introduce Madeleine Morris, author of the recently published Guilt-free Bottle Feeding who will grace us with her insights and honesty on infant feeding including the neglected bottle. An award-winning former BBC reporter and presenter, Morris has written for the Times, the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald amongst others. Currently …
Many of you may be familiar with my friend Suzanne Barston, aka The Fearless Formula Feeder and now author of Bottled Up: How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn’t published this fall by the University of California Press. In other words, Suzanne is …
Sippy cups, pacifiers and bottles result in over 2,000 annual ER trips. A lactivist’s dream come true. As is our next selection. Breastmilk ingredient optimizes good gut bacteria. Fine. Show me the long-term health benefits. The ones not attributed to the mothers who breastfeed for a year (in between pilates, preschool book fairs and …
I was already cranky this morning. The high pollen count, the cast on my arm, the missing english muffin thanks to last night’s small but fearsome toaster oven fire. And even though my doctor friends insist I couldn’t possibly feel it, this headline in the New York Time’s Science section raised my blood pressure: Despite Advice, Many Fail to Breast-Feed Next came the same old “breast-is-best” …
Bisphenol-a (aka BPA), the exiled former chemical in hard, clear plastic including sippy cups and baby bottles, may have been prematurely purged. The plastic non grata turns out to look rather safe according to a new EPA-funded animal study. Worries over BPA have focused on it’s possible estrogenic effects, much like, say estrogen found in birth control pills. So researchers …