It’s Child Passenger Safety Week, which means, SURPRISE! We’re talking about car seats. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has made lots of awesome graphics that show one scary fact: Most people think their car seats are used correctly… but they’re wrong. And in this case, wrong can mean deadly wrong. The Lower Anchors and Tethers [...]
I turned on the documentary “Busting Out”, a film about the history and politics of our odd obsession with breasts, and how it impacts us as a culture. Filmmakers Francine Strickwerda and Laurel Spellman Smith put together a pretty impressive short summary of our shifts in breast-obsession here in the US over a period of time. It was interesting to see the discussion about how “most desired size” has been something that has regularly shifted, from very small, nubile barely-pubescent breasts, to very large and curvaceous ones. But always, the interest in this country is the breast.
Tags: breastfeeding, media, nursing
Breastfeeding is a complex issue. On one hand, it’s what our bodies are made to do, and our babies come out designed to make it work. However, there are so many nuances, potential issues, and even just basic understand of how it works versus how you think it’s going to work that it’s much harder [...]
Tags: breastfeeding, education, formula feeding, health & medicine, research
It’s been exactly a year today since the American Academy of Pediatrics updated their car seat recommendations to include rear-facing children until at least two, or until they outgrew their seat, and for older kids to stay in boosters until they were 8-12 years old and 4’9″. These simple recommendations, as we know, can and [...]
Tags: AAA, aap, car seat safety, car seats, carseat, carseats, education, parenting choices, research, safety, traveling with baby
A lot of people within natural, “AP” circles tend to boycott Nestlé… or hear a lot that others do. In 1887 when Henri Nestlé made his infant formula mixture to ‘save the life’ of a neighbor’s baby whose mother was ill and unable to breastfeed, I don’t think he expected that in a century, his [...]
Tags: #boonestle, #nonestle, cocoa slave labor, ethics, Nestle, nestle boycott, the ivory coast
Now, I bet you’re still wondering how my title of this post plays into thinks? Well look at that last line in that ad again… “closely mimics the nursing experience.” You know what other line we hear ALL the time in formula advertising? “Closer than ever to breastmilk.” In fact, every single time formula companies change around ingredients or add a new one (which remember, might not do anything) they then claim it’s even closer to breastmilk than ever before. But what a stupid statement that is.
Tags: advertinsing, breastfeeding, international code for marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes, marketing, misleading advertising, research
If you’ve hung around us much, or some of our online community, no doubt you’ve heard the World Health Organization’s International Code [of Ethics] for Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes. For some people, this matters a lot. Others don’t understand so much why mere advertising is such a big deal. One of the biggest issues [...]
Tags: breastfeeding, education, international code for marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes, misleading advertising, nestle boycott, who code
Most often, your cheap car seat will be manufactured by Dorel Juvenile Group. Dorel creates Maxi-Cosi, Costco, Safety 1st and Eddie Bauer car seats. And I wouldn’t trust a single one with my child’s life, and here’s why…
“…the federal standard for car seats is so narrowly defined that seats passing the toughest of the tests–simulating a front-end collision at 30 miles per hour–can have serious problems at just a few miles an hour more and yet still meet the standard. We had seats where, if you turned [the test sled] up 5 miles an hour, the seat would disintegrate.”
Tags: aap car seats, car seat safety, car seat safety standards, car seats, carseats, cosco car seat, dorel car seats, dorel juvenile group, education, safety, touriva notch of death, traveling with baby
This supposedly banned Super Bowl commercial by PETA — Milk Gone Wild — is a spoof on Girls Gone Wild and while I totally cringe every time I see the very drunk chicks showing off their boobs, I think I may be more offended by PETA’s version. Mainly because I can’t blame the booze or [...]
Tags: breastfeeding
Just when I thought I’d heard it all in terms of ridiculous lawsuits, I read about this California mother who is suing Nutella because it isn’t healthy. What the heck? Is this really what we have come to? Who on earth thought that Nutella was health food to begin with, anyway? Follow @dailymomtra
Tags: health food, healthy treats, nutella, nutella lawsuit, saturated fat