Category Archives: Breastfeeding

Pregnancy is not an illness…

March 7, 2008 – 8:38 am

…but sometimes it sure as hell feels like it. Boom tish!
When I was having my daughter, we had a trainee midwife attending us as one of her “case studies” for qualification. She had a sticker or something with the motto “Pregnancy is not an illness”. From this you could tell she was young, idealistic, totally [...]

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Now that’s far too late to wean…

May 28, 2007 – 6:52 pm

I am all in favour of breastfeeding. But sometimes a good thing can be taken too far.
According to BBC News, Dr Izzat Atiya of Al-Hazar University in Cairo issued a fatwa as follows:
He said that if a woman fed a male colleague “directly from her breast” at least five times, they would establish a family [...]

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Breast is best

December 2, 2006 – 9:56 pm

In his comment on ‘Prudish Jurisprudence?’, Iain mentioned that the American public has a very strange attitude: they decry images of naked women and sex on TV, but are quite happy to see violence. This made me think of a report concerning an American parenting magazine which featured a baby feeding from its mother’s breast [...]

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