The pains and gains of breastfeeding
We’re all told that breastfeeding is the best start you can give your baby, but it can also be bloody agony – both physically and emotionally. So give new mothers a break
I’m not a ‘Nipple Nazi’, I’m a breastfeeding counsellor
My role is to support women who want to breastfeed, and respecting a woman’s choice not to. Because they’re her breasts
Women have the right to prenatal genetic testing – and to choose abortion
Many chromosomal abnormalities can be detected early on in the gestation period. But women who test for them often face judgement
Buying human breast milk online poses serious health risk, say experts
Researchers call for regulation of internet sales of breast milk, boosted by demand from mothers unable to breastfeed, bodybuilders and fetishists
For-profit breast milk? It’s her body, and it must be her choice
But selling breast milk is the inevitable result of telling women they’re creating ‘liquid gold’ with every pump.
Breastfeeding raises IQ… and some worrying questions
Dean Burnett: Before concluding that breastfeeding increases intelligence it’s important to consider all the confounding factors (not that that will stop anyone).
The longer babies breastfeed, the more they achieve in life – major study
Brazilian study of 6,000 babies from all backgrounds since 1982 finds those who breastfed were more intelligent, spent longer in education and earned more
My friend breastfed my baby
Elisa Albert was struggling to breastfeed and her son was losing weight fast. When her friend offered to nurse him alongside her own baby, she was shocked. But what was stopping her?
The cult of natural childbirth has gone too far
A report condemning midwife ‘musketeers’ of Morecambe Bay brought back memories of my own emergency caesarean. Being bullied into a natural birth is not what I call feminism
Natural superfood: is it time to regulate the sale of breast milk?
If bodybuilders and others are turning to it as a natural supplement and superfood, is it time to start regulating the sale of breast milk?