Sentences with phrase «many lactivists»

But I had my mother (one of the original lactivists) and Dr. Sears, so we relaxed.

Carina, a self - described lactivist, also responded to a woman's question on Yahoo on this very topic.

I am thankful for the info & support of online lactivists & their education of me.

I find myself becoming far less of a lactivist the older my kids get (7 and almost 5 and long weaned) because they present me with far more pressing issues as they get older.

My MIL is a Disney freak and a HUGE lactivist.

This issue gets emotional when I read sensationalistic comments from other self - proclaimed «lactivists» who ARE judgmental, narrow and condemning in their views.

If the «lactivists» who share the evils of formula were out of the equation, this issue would have a lot less controversy around it.

Cate, a self - professed lactivist who writes at Eco Child's Play, says she doesn't believe that «setting aside creative, imaginative free play for an instructional doll is the best for kids.

I'm personally very thankful for the (non-judgmental) lactivist community online and the information you put out there because in future, I hope to have more success breastfeeding through what I've learned.

Some of the things that your lactivist friends have reminded you of do resonate with me, but within a specific context.

Hello, fellow colleagues, lactivists, and breastfeeding moms!

There is no way that this terminology is in any way meant to be taken seriously, even by the most sanctimonious and sensitive of lactivists.

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.

My lactivist acquaintances constantly remind me that I could try to relactate, or that I could use banked milk.

I believe my lactivist friends are well - intentioned.

I appreciate that you can't imagine that there WOULD be mean lactivists.

I'm a lactivist.

I have a pregnant friend and am trying to figure out how to best balance the lactivist in me with the supportive friend, especially if she struggles.

Thanks for years of support, lactivists!

Artificial feeding, which is neither the same, nor superior, is therefore deficient, incomplete, and inferior,» Diane Wiessinger, an outspoken lactivist and international board - certified lactation consultant (IBCLC), wrote back in 1996 in an oft - cited article, «Watch Your Language.»

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.

«Dr. Johnston... developed this sudden and seemingly urgent interest in this issue not via a last minute clinical review of the scientific literature, or even after consulting with the AAP's own recognized lactation science experts... his concern came immediately after aggressive, personal lobbying by representatives of one of the AAP's biggest financial contributors, the $ 3 billion U.S. infant formula industry,» wrote lactivist Katie Allison Granju in «The Milky Way of Doing Business,» a rebuttal to the AAP's actions regarding the campaign.

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.

But amidst the plethora of substantial, legitimate information, there is also a cacophony of foreboding, judgmental voices: «lactivist» blogs that compare formula feeding to child abuse; public message boards with calls to action - «I automatically feel sorry for the baby sitting in the cart in the formula aisle as their parent loads up on cans of the stuff.

The International Code of Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes (known in lactivist circles as the «WHO Code»), prohibits formula companies from advertising in any conspicuous way: «There should be no advertising or other form of promotion to the general public of products within the scope of this Code,» proclaims article 5.1 of this policy, coauthored in 1981 by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO).

And the lactivist in me is embarrassed by my embarrassment as well.

The lactivists are watching.

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.

So when self - professed lactivist Ashley Kaidel noticed herself getting the stink eye from a woman at a restaurant while she was breastfeeding her child, she didn't take it sitting down.

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

She's now waging a campaign to have other lactivists, breastfeeding moms, and people who have common sense to join in and send letters to your affiliates.

I am one of those extended nursing, boob out in public, crunchy lactivists you sometimes hear about.

Trying to breastfeed for 3 months cost me roughly the same as a year of formula, so I am really just guessing that its cheaper for some women since all the lactivists claim it's free.

Lactivists have a very specific view of women and their bodes.

Not sure I understand... I wasn't making a reference to Christ, I was equating zealous lactivists to obnoxious people of any faith who stand on the street corner and shout that all non believers are going to hell if they don't start believing as they do.

For all the lactivist efforts, the majority of infants in this country receive formula at some point.

So Dear Facebook Lactivist: We get it.

The sooner we realize that, and stop pandering to the desire of lactivists to shame any women who doesn't mirror their own choices, the better.

Lactivists think nearly all women can produce enough milk to feed their babies.

I'm not even touching the issue of women who have low milk supply even baby is fed at the breast early and often — I think that happens far more often than lactivists will admit, too.

Instead of treating women as rational adult human beings who are able to interpret information, report problems, weigh up pros and cons and draw appropriate boundaries, the lactivist approach is to deny or minimise problems and overstate benefits to the point where women are shamed or guilt tripped into BF beyond the point where they find it acceptable.

One of the illusions of the lactivist community is that all one needs to breastfeed successfully is a baby and a breast.

Somewhat unrelated but anyone notice that Lactivists are OBSESSED with highlighting the risk of cronobacter and formula feeding?

Right now the party line from lactivists is «No way is breastfeeding sexual.

However, in order to truly determine the optimal level of breastfeeding, lactivists would first have to admit that there are costs to breastfeeding which they never will do.

But there are so many lactivists that will simply deny that passive immunity is temporary and limited and insist that breastfed babies are immune to everything the mother is (wrong) and that breastmilk acts as a sort of general vaccine that prevents babies from catching anything (also wrong).

Here's a newsflash for lactivists: women formula feed because they want to do so and unless and until you address the real reasons, and stop pretending that this is a giant conspiracy on the part of «Big Forma,» all your campaigns are doomed to failure.

Lactivists are kidding themslves if they think otherwise.

Switching to formula was so hard for me because of the bullying tactics of lactivists, but it was what had to happen if my child was going to eat.

That's not surprising, since there was never any scientific evidence that it would work in first world countries, just the heartfelt desire on the part of lactivists to shame and denigrate other women.