Hi Everyone!
I need some help!! In the build up to World Breastfeeding Week (1st-7th Aug) I would love to collect as many photos as possible of all you beautiful breastfeeding mamas and babies to add on here!!
Does anyone have any good ones which they wouldn’t mind sharing?
Email me at sarah.unkap@gmail.com
Thanks for your help!
In the lead up to World Breastfeeding Week (Aug 1st-7th), the Australian Breastfeeding Association are launching a campaign to promote public breastfeeding, by teaching teens in schools that it is OK to breastfeed in public. It is pushing for boys … Continue reading
Selma Blair has become the next in line of celebrity moms to welcome their new life in to the world. Congratulations to Selma and her fashion designer boyfriend Jason Bleick who welcomed their baby boy, Arthur Saint Bleick, on Monday 25th July, nearly 3 weeks ‘late’ according to the press!
Go Selma!!
Does anyone know if we had the home birth she wished for?
‘Actress Elizabeth Hurley had one. So did supermodel Claudia Schiffer. Ex-Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and singer Toni Braxton had two each. TV mom Patricia Heaton had four. They’re so popular among the upper class in Brazil that the only way … Continue reading
As many of you will already know, Victoria & David Beckham welcomed their newest member of the Beckham brood over the weekend. Their first daughter after three boys. The baby, named Harper Seven, was delivered by cesarean section on Sunday at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. Victoria has revealed to People magazine,
‘We all feel so blessed, the boys love their baby sister so much’ and ‘Baby Harper is the most beautiful baby girl I have ever seen. I have fallen in love all over again’.
Congratulations to the whole Beckham family!
Finally, a TED Talk about birth! Ginny Phang, a Singapore-based Doula and childbirth educator, discusses why a Doula can be so valuable to a woman in labor. Ginny believes in enriching a woman’s childbirth experience, supporting couples through their choices … Continue reading
Check out Ina May Gaskin’s amazing statistics from her 2,028 births on The Farm between 1970-2000.
Great article from Ricki Lake, ‘Mothers Deserve Options’, discussing why she felt it necessary to bring out ‘More Business of Being Born’.
Join Ricki Lake in her fight for the right of all mothers to have access to safe, intervention-free options. Click here to support her Kickstarter campaign.
Click here to view a video about MORE Business of being Born
(This project will only be funded if at least $100,000 is pledged by Thursday Jul 14, 1:03pm EDT.)
So what are you waiting for?-Get Involved!
How and where you decide to bring your child into this world is a choice that belongs to you.
An amusing blog post from the Analytical Armadillo about the complicated rules of breast coverage.
Thanks for sharing.
I have just seen this wonderful depiction of the Business of Being Born, by Austin Kleon on his blog.
Visual note-taking.
