Happy World Breastfeeding Week!

The first week in August is always World Breastfeeding Week, and in honor of it, I thought I'd post one of my favorite "cult classic" pictures (well, in the breastfeeding world it's a classic). Obviously, this is one smart baby!

The research is astoundingly clear about breastfeeding - it is truly magical stuff. The thing is, it can be difficult to do when you live in a society that doesn't support it. If you haven't grown up witnessing aunties and cousins breastfeed their newborn, or if you feel the glare of other people when you try to nurse in public, you're going to tempted to break out the free formula.

Breastfed babies end up smarter, healthier, and leaner. So, it makes economical sense for our country to embrace breastfeeding and not shun it.

The shirt at the top says it all, and it is a perfect gift for the lactating momma in your life!

The baby pounds competition

I was busy in my kitchen, listening to a cheesy entertainment show on in the background, and they reported that a certain celebrity was already looking "fit and fabulous" just 7 weeks after she had her baby.

Nothing irritates me more than the media's obsession with how fast celebrities get back to their fighting weight after a baby; why does it have to be a race? What exactly did she accomplish?

Look - nature designed our body to lose weight after we have a baby. Just like you don't have to think about the baby growing inside of you to make it happen (although you can certainly screw it up by diving into something like alchohol or drugs), you really don't have to be a superhuman to lose the baby weight. You just need to take care of yourself, and allow nature to do it's thing. And, a woman who kills herself with extreme dieting and exercising too soon just to make news that she lost the weight in record time is NOT taking care of herself, in my book.