Sentences with phrase «lactivists like»

What lactivists like myself are fighting is the idea that breastmilk can be easily substituted with formula.

This is about attempting to fill the pathetic lack of self - esteem of Elicia and lactivists like her.

Maybe it's because lactivists like Martha are well aware that for many women breastfeeding isn't awesome at all.

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It's a troublesome feeling because we're all supposed to be good little lactivists who never speak unless we're spoken to, and yet by doing so we allow misinformation to be spread like wildfire when we had a chance to correct it... then when we do it only results in more defensiveness, often regardless of how you phrase it.

I'd like to say I laid the foundation for my little brother to become a lactivist when his own wife began to breastfeed years later, but the truth is, I was just embarrassed for him to see me nursing.

On the many lactivist blogs and Twitter feeds I followed while researching this book, the words of Eleanor Roosevelt would be thrown around like paper airplanes in a fourth - grade classroom - inappropriately and haphazardly, and often hitting unintended targets.

I tried everything that all the Facebook lactivist mommies and La Leche League forums recommended: nipple shields, mouth exercises, dribbling formula on my nipple like I was in a preschool version of the candle wax scene from 9 1/2 Weeks.

Kathy Abbott IBCLC as «The Curious Lactivist» likes to reflect on the ways that breastfeeding is presented in the news media.

Many lactivists themselves love to play up the erotic nature of breastfeeding, describing the baby in almost a post-coital bliss after a feed and bragging that «nothing can match the bonding», and making their husbands sound like unwanted suitors.

Yet lactivists feel no compunction about behaving like know - it - alls and doing the exact same thing.

Even though I like breastfeeding my children, I haven't read or heard a lactivist address how a woman is supposed to cope with breastfeeding if she doesn't have any support at home.

«Lactivists» (god, I hate that word) should really consider whether their activism actually promotes a positive public image of breastfeeding or whether it actually makes breastfeeding look like something only fringe, exhibitionist weirdos do.

Imagining that you are knowledgeable about breastfeeding because you have read the propaganda of the lactivist industry is like imagining that you are knowledgeable about extraterrestrial life because you read about aliens in the «newspapers» at the check out line in the supermarket.

I feel like many «lactivists» are often so intent on convincing women that they can succeed at breastfeeding that they don't realize how much pressure that kind of support can create.

I have found that the Naural birthers, AP, and lactivists that I have met over the years actually have personality and / or life style deficiencies that cause them to need to feel like better parents, due to their own underlying feelings of parental inadequacy, either real or imagined.

You are behaving like the lactivists who assert risks from properly made and dispensed formula in healthy, full term infants in developed countries.

In it, she chides lactivists for their intolerance of tolerance, lactivists who say things like ``... [I] t is scientifically proven that breast is better.