A variety of baby and breastfeeding related links that have fallen into my lap in the last few days

[geminigirl]

Courtesy of aquariumgirl (note-registration required, but bugmenot.com usually has working logins for the Washington Post) HHS Toned Down Breast-Feeding Ads Formula Industry Urged Softer Campaign. Also available here from MSNBC.

And much more pleasantly....

Design your own onsie.

The next two, courtesy of rockstarbob:

Most popular baby names by decade from the 1880s to 2000s.-I found my name in the appropriate decade.

Also, The baby name wizard blog with some interesting articles. Do note that the words "vagina" and "penis" appear in entirely mundane context on the current first page of the blog.

I think it's time to go talk to my breakfast cereal, and see what my Rice Krispies inspire me to do today. Maybe they'll prompt me to answer the three e-mails in my inbox that I want to deal with.

Comments

[katishna.livejournal.com]

The article is interesting. I am a huge advocate of breastfeeding, I will stick my nose in the fight if I am ever witness to a situation where a mother is being told to stop doing so in public, whatever. I would breastfeed my own children if I could. But I have to agree with the formula companies in one respect - if you go on and on about how not breastfeeding is ZOMG DANGEROUS to the baby, you're going to make those of us who can't do it feel like absolute shit. And there's enough people trying to do that to new moms for a multitude of reasons that the government can very well keep its nose out of that activity.

The last thing the boob nazis need is more venom to spew at those of us who decide not to breastfeed, no matter what our reasons are.

Another fun naming link for you:

[rockstarbob.livejournal.com]

http://www.nymbler.com/

[vix.livejournal.com]

Very interesting article. It's profoundly disturbing how much lobbyists can hold sway over what does and doesn't get the green light in HHS, but with Tommy Thompson at the helm, I don't know why I ever thought anything good could come out of that unit. He was the governor in Wisconsin for a number of years and is a world-class moron.

That said, the context of the arguments presented here are fascinating to me. I overheard my brother telling my mom over the weekend how his third child (almost 3 weeks old) gave the best effort at trying to latch on but just couldn't do it (my SIL has inverted nipples). So she pumps and they bottle-feed him that way, and since she's a medical professional she is perhaps a bit less susceptible to those who would endeavour to make her feel guilty in any fashion for not spending every possibly second trying to get him to latch on. So long as he's getting the breastmilk one way or the other, that's all that really matters to her and to the child.

At any rate, thanks for the link and the discourse!