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Breastfeeding

Posted on September 11, 2018 September 3, 2018

Cracking Under The Pressure to Breastfeed

Stephanie Montgomery
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Stephanie Montgomery
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Brain+Body
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Breastfeeding, Health, motherhood, Parenting

I didn’t want to fail at breastfeeding. It was not an option. As I reread my worn copy of The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, I started to panic. I knew deep down something was wrong, and she wasn’t getting enough milk, but I was doing everything right, and I wanted it to work so badly. Read more

Posted on April 4, 2018 October 9, 2018

Building A Better Breast Pump Should Be Everyone’s Hackathon Challenge

The Establishment
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The Establishment
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Brain+Body
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brain-body, Breastfeeding, hackathons, Parenting, tech

When engineering teams aren’t diverse, only certain people’s problems get solved. Read more

Posted on August 21, 2017 December 11, 2018

How Our Conversation Around Breastfeeding Hurts Black Infants

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Written by
Kelly Glass
Posted in
Brain+Body
Tagged
breast-v-fed, Breastfeeding, infant-mortality, race

For too long, the dialogue around breastfeeding has been a deeply privileged one that erases and ignores Black women. Read more

Posted on December 12, 2016 October 3, 2018

Indian Women Speak Out About Choosing Not To Have Children

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Written by
Revati Upadhya
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Society+Politics
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Breastfeeding, children, choices, essay, society-politics

“What if I’ve always liked the looks of my own life much better than those of the ones I saw around me? . . . What if I have become sure that personal freedom is the thing I hold most dear?” Read more

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