Ina May Gaskin interviewed on NPR's Diane Rehm Show
An entertaining and informative interview, this segment touches on home birth, midwifery education/training, and barriers that stand in the way of midwives being able to practice to the full extent of their qualifications. Did you know Ina was an English major? No wonder her books read so well.
The California Milk Processor Board and its longtime advertising agency launched a campaign around the premise that dairy helps ease PMS symptoms. The campaign featured what they thought were humorous ads of men holding milk and making apologies like "I’m sorry for the thing or things I did or didn’t do." However, a social media uprising has deemed the campaign sexist and offensive, and the California milk board has since pulled the campaign, replacing it with http://www.gotdiscussion.org/.
As a breastfeeding mother, World Breastfeeding Week has a special place in my heart this year. If you'd like to get involved, check out www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org/ and The Big Latch On for events near you. And don't forget to download the theme song:
Stand Up Everybody!
listen up
imma rap about breastscuz ev'ry other song
has a line about her chest
and the world's OK with
the sex context
but feed the future and
the world's like what the heck?
they call it a rack
turn a gift of god
into a sales contest
and treat ev'ry woman
like an item on the shelf
major corporations and
snakeoil quacks
claim to replace
what's nature's best
with powdered potions,
subliminal ads
enough of that
it's time to act
k and waba say
time to take your breast back
...and, in honor of World Breastfeeding Week, consider submitting your brief breastfeeding success/breastfeeding support success story to Science & Sensibility. http://www.scienceandsensibility.org/?p=3295
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