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This is annoying.

I have an online friend which I met when I went to a knitting workshop.
She's American so she understands the importance of breast feeding; she is also a mother of a young baby…just 6 wks. Older then my DD.

I tend to gripe about breast feeding, because in Israel you really get the wrong kind of attitude. I'm not saying it's a national thing but you don't meet that many nursing mothers and when you do, they only nurse for the bare minimum of 6 months if that long.
The men here seem to understand better the importance of it then the woman.
I'll have you know that in order to express I need to take myself of to a conference room that has a glass window wall, though it's a sort of darkened glass. I need to sit in a chair with my back to the wall so that no one sees…but I DON'T CARE. 100% breastfeeding is something I will not compromise on. If I didn't have a room in the office that had a door with a lock I would simply use my nursing bib to cover myself up.
This is the one thing I can do for my baby whole heartedly, it's good for me and it's good for her…but before I digress, as I already have…check out what my friend wrote about:
http://israhome.blogsome.com/2008/…
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three lil kits

Split milk, spilt blood

Does a country have the right to put the health of it's babies over corporate interests?
In the Philippines this dispute is leading to a blood bath.

>This year, two big Western milk companies were granted government permission to establish new infant-formula manufacturing plants in the Philippines, a decision Health Department Undersecretary Padilla referred to as "schizophrenic".
Legal questions over the constitutionality of the RIRR's restrictions on advertising are now being weighed by the Supreme Court, in a landmark case that will adjudicate between public-health and commercial rights in the country. UNICEF and the WHO recently indicated that the court's decision could set an important precedent for how milk companies are allowed to promote their products in other countries in the region.<
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>Those monitoring the case say the proceedings have been riddled with irregularities - though it's unclear on whose behalf. Nestor Ballacillo, a lawyer retained by the Health Department to argue his case, was mysteriously gunned down with his son in Manila in December before he could testify. A second legal representative, Jose Bernas, retained as a consultant by UNICEF and WHO for the case, was nearly shot to death in his Manila offices by three assailants posing as journalists who briefly took a secretary hostage, according to a UNICEF representative in Bangkok. <

READ MORE here:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South…
David, &amp; Elaine, Ben
  • amyel

Radio Ad

I heard a radio ad this morning from the Oklahoma State Health Department. I was quite surprised it was funded by them. It makes sense, but I thought it was going to have been funded by some other kind of organization.

Anyway, it was an ad about women in the workforce and how their employers should be supportive of their choice to continue to breastfeed their children by giving them time to pump milk at work. It was a little on the cheesy side, but good.

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hello,

it was suggested by a friend that i post here, regarding some breastmilk that I have.

I have 1,000 ounces of stored breastmilk in my deepfreezer. My daughter was born 3/1 of this year and I am breastfeeding her and nursing her brother as well. Anyway, I wanted to donate it to the milkbank at austin but they wouldnt accept it because I am on cymbalta, and before that, i was on zoloft. those are the only meds I am on, btw. I posted about it at mothering.com but no one has gotten back to me yet... and I was wondering if anyone knew of any place that would accept it, or knew anyone that needed it? I am in corpus christi texas.

thank you!

-Jennie