Trevor is a Milk Junkie and a transgender man with a husband and a baby
Tag Archive for 'breastfeeding'
1. Anderson Cooper talks about kids and race. In a recent study, 6-year-olds think kids should have interracial friendships; by 13, not so much.
2. Do you have a tween? Are you about to have a tween? Get ready for the Drama Years.
3. The true cost of breastfeeding: moms who nurse longer lose out on income that their peers don’t.
4. Obviously motherhood is tough and exhausting, but one childless woman says quit your whining since it’s just pouring salt in the wound. (We don’t see any problem with venting your frustrations, but maybe just to a selective audience.)
5. Are you pregnant and you know it? Do you want to sing about it?
Yesterday: Play date waivers, Europe’s Easter egg shortage and you didn’t imagine it, your kids get less cute at about 4 1/2. (Well fine, maybe not your kids, but everyone else’s)
What we’re reading today:
1. The New York Times Sunday Magazine long read this week was all about girls hitting puberty earlier and earlier. Did you read it? It made us want to banish any and all plastic and preservatives from the house and move somewhere far, far away.
2. Your not imagining it and you can now tell your mother that you have science on your side: childbirth is three hours longer than it was 50 years ago.
3. Oh Park Slope parents, you’ve got it rough. How dare those Italian ice and ice cream vendors come into your playgrounds on those first few beautiful days of the spring and tempt your kids with treats you haven’t prepared yourself with local, organic macro ingredients. Is it really that hard to say “no” to your kids?
4. For moms unable to breastfeed, there’s been some good developments with formula.
What we’re reading today:
1. The circumcision debate rages on! Bad news for intactivists, circumcision now linked to lower rates of prostate cancer.
2. Some Scottish researchers are looking to revise recommendations that new mothers should breastfeed exclusively for the first six months. They suggest that instead the goal should be not so much in the numbers, but the results — what works best for your family. “Six months exclusive breast-feeding,” they write, “is considered unrealistic and unachievable by many families and promoting this is perceived as setting parents up to fail.”
3. In support of Meatless Mondays, or adding a vegetarian meal or two a week for your family.
4. According to one author, serious career women don’t work part-time, even if they’re moms.
5. We would LOVE to try on wigs with Miss Piggy.
Photo by
Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
It could be my twisted sense of humour, but sometimes the news is just, funny. Here is my round-up of queerly-themed parenting stories that I found both newsworthy and laugh-worthy this week.
1. Turns out, same sex marriages aren’t a threat to the whole institution after all
According to a website run by journalism graduate students at Northwestern University’s Medill school, gay marriages don’t ruin straight ones. Hear this out. It’s almost as though we help straight marriages. States that allow same sex marriages have the lowest divorce rates in the U.S, and same-sex couples divorce at slightly lower rates than straight folks.
What we’re reading today:
1. Maryland joins Team Marriage Equality! And no roadblocks here, unlike New Jersey, Gov. Martin O’Malley signed that bill!
2. Score one for the lactivists: People caught harassing nursing moms in Georgia could face a $1, 000 fine.
3. Are loot bags over the top? What’s fair and what’s too much?
4. How many words should a 2-year-old know? It varies, but there are 25 words that a researcher says all toddlers should know, including dog, milk and cookie. (We assume mom and/or dad are in there, but given that it’s entirely possibly for a 2-year-old not to know any dogs, why is that one of the key words?)
5. One-year-old baby is pretty good on the drums! (And sorry to go all concern troll and judgey, but shouldn’t he have noise-canceling/reducing headphones?
Photo by pillowhead designs via Flickr
What we’re reading today:
1. Preschoolers with homework, so that’s a thing now?
2. Hey working moms, do you feel like you’re held to a higher standard than your baby-free colleagues?
3. Why one mom is still nursing her 3.5 year old.
4. Happy Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day! Do you know any math-y girls who should be introduced to the science of engineering? Know anyone who might find engineering interesting?
5. Do you know Henry the Flying Baby? Henry’s mom is photographer Rachel Hulin and she’s pretty handy with the camera.
Top photo by Mwesiga via Flickr, bottom photo by Rachel Hulin








