"Her experience illustrates the layers of anxiety pumping parents endure as they travel, backed up by stories of dumped milk, carry-on pump pushback, alleged “breast milk discrimination” and in-flight crackdowns. Lactating travelers who are not able to pump can face more than embarrassment and discomfort: It could result in infection and reduced milk supply."
"By the time he was 3, he reached his peak weight of about 66 pounds — the same as an average 9-year-old. He was drinking six or seven bottles a day, each holding about 12 ounces of toddler milk."
According to a post on X by the United Nations Population Fund, about 45,000 pregnant women and 68,000 breastfeeding women in the Gaza Strip face the risk of anaemia, bleeding and death.
In a classic bit of #market segmentation & the use of #anxiety inducing #health claims the #babyformula market seems rife with dodgy practices & a lack of effective regulation;
moreover, with the UK having one of the lowest rates of #breastfeeding in the world, we might wonder whether this is linked with other health issues we are confronting.
Not only do spurious health claims need to be stopped, we should ask whether formula is really the right way to go at all?
We're seeing more and more accounts on other social media platforms censoring normal anatomical words as if they're dirty - using nonsense terms like "v&g1n@". You'll never catch us doing that. Here's why...
Currently doing a deep dive into both news articles and medical literature on induced lactation. Hoping to bring some sanity to the conversation on trans women breastfeeding.
It's interesting reading. One thing I found out was that there's a long history of induced lactation in Nigeria, often meaning grandmothers who take over breastfeeding if something happens to mom.
I'm guessing I won't have a lot of room in the article I end up writing on trans women inducing lactation and the current hysteria over it to talk about Islamic folklore about women breastfeeding without giving birth, or about African cultural practices around relactation, but the full paper I found on that is freely available here. #trans#science#breastfeeding