Sentences with phrase «of lactivist»

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.

Refusal of the lactivist community to place a mother's mental health at least equal to her baby's health has exacerbated countless episodes of post-partum depression.

No amount of lactivist «education» can change the reality that exclusive breastfeeding is not the best choice for everyone and formula companies are needed to fulfill the need for safe substitutes.

In a fascinating PhD dissertation, sociology graduate student Harmony Newman explains the strategies of the lactivist movement.

I am meanwhile flabbergasted that, although I am a COMPLETE FAILURE in the eyes of the lactivist movement, my boobs are so rad that they made milk to satisfy my toddler son when he was comfort nursing through a bad time.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

You can read the rest of Martha's «revelations» for yourself, but I do want to note one claim beloved of lactivists:

If they say anything negative about breastfeeding, they will incur the wrath of lactivists but they can rail against formula and most people nod in agreement.

Maybe they can do that on Planet Boob where most of the lactivists hide out, but here in the real world, most nursing women have OTHER CHILDREN.

I will admit I didn't actually go as far as starving and totally dehydrating him, as some of the lactivists on MDC suggested, but I didn't immediately supplement either.

The recent response of lactivists to the growing body of evidence that aggressive breastfeeding promotion is injuring and in some cases killing infants suggests that lactivism is a form of pseudoscience.

But we live in a world of lactivists, ho hum.

«Which leads to an important question: how could another woman's choice to breastfeed hurt the children of lactivists?

Not exact matches

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

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

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

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

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.

Thanks for years of support, lactivists!

«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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Unfortunately, most lactivists ignore that some difficulties just can not be overcome (no amount of support is going to effect IGT, for example).

It is interesting to note that lactivists believe that any piece about breastfeeding that don't include illogical, false overly emotional claims isn't «supportive» of women who breastfeed.

«Why do lactivists spend so much time proclaiming the awesomeness of breastfeeding?

Even though I breastfeed for as long as possible (because I want to, not because I am a sheep that is following the crunchy crowd) I am still waiting for these lactivist to explain to women what they are supposed to do when they are trying to breastfeed, take care of other children, and have no support taking care of the household.

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.

I often wonder if the lactivists and vag - worshippers have it partly right, that insufficient supply is quite rare and a good proportion of «medically indicated» c - sections are in fact unnecesareans.

If breastfeeding is so awesome, why do lactivists have to spend so much time convincing us of its awesomeness?

No lactivist offered to donate any of those items or pay for them.

Since it is difficult to reconcile lactivists» claims with the life experience of these women, it follows that many conclude that the lactivist's claims are false and nothing more than scare tactics.

Simply because a quiet complaint to the right person may make more of a difference than exhaustedly telling off a lactivist for taking advantage of a captive audience.