Hey, Facebook, What have you got Against Breastfeeding?

A mass online protest movement is gathering after Facebook banned some breastfeeding photos from their social network site.  Many people are upset that Facebook is classifying these photos "obscene," and are...

McDonald's apologises after group of mothers staged sit-in over breast-feedin...

A McDonald's manager in the UK has been forced to apologize to a young mum whom he told could not breastfeed in the fast-food chain.She returned with five friends and they staged a 'sit-in' and all started...

Infant formula: The next best thing to breast-feeding

Although breast milk is best, formula-feeding is perfectly acceptable. Here's what you need to know about choosing and using infant formula. Sometimes exclusive breast-feeding isn't possible or practical. Until...

A guy's guide to breast-feeding: Don't be a boob

Like most men, I want no part of the whole breast-feeding controversy. Women can duke this out on their own. I’ve had a good friend of mine, a woman with twin sons who struggled to breast-feed, call pro-breast-feeding campaigners “La Leche Nazis.” I have had women I...

Breast-feeding case leads to punishment

"A commuter airline has disciplined a flight attendant who ordered a passenger off a plane for refusing to cover herself with a blanket while breast-feeding her toddler, the airline said...

Breast-feeding, intelligence link probed

"Breast-fed children are more intelligent than their bottle-fed counterparts, but this has nothing to do with the content of the milk they receive, a study published in the British Medical Journal said. For decades scientists have been looking for a correlation between...

Breast-feeding has no impact on intelligence

"LONDON (Reuters) - Breast-feeding has no impact on a child's intelligence, according to research published on Wednesday. Although breast-feeding has many advantages for children including reducing infections, respiratory illnesses and diarrhoea, enhancing a child's...

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