Sentences with phrase «by lactivism»
In our culture, «broken» by lactivism, women have to start caring for the baby the moment the placenta detaches.
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It seems to me that even if only 1 - 2 % of women legitimately can not breastfeed, not to mention many more with low supply, pain, infection, prohibitive work responsibilities etc., there are a significant number of us who are being emotionally attacked by «lactivism.»
But as Courtney Jung points out in her book Lactivism, while 79 percent of American mothers initiate breastfeeding, only 49 percent are still doing so at six months, the length of time recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
By aggressively promoting their own choices, aggressively demeaning the choices of other mothers, and aggressively insisting that anyone who makes different choices is implicitly criticizing them, advocates of attachment parenting, homebirth, lactivism, etc. encourage the very conflicts that they claim to deplore.
By that metric, contemporary lactivism — cheered on by its lactation professional enablers — is pseudosciencBy that metric, contemporary lactivism — cheered on by its lactation professional enablers — is pseudosciencby its lactation professional enablers — is pseudoscience.
Why I Nurse at the Mall... and at Mass by Kate Wicker Religion and Breastfeeding: How Breastfeeding Impacts the Religious Woman by Jennifer M. Paquette Lactivism and Public Breastfeeding by Tim Challies