For those of you that want to help support “Breast Cancer Awareness” you can and so can your little baby. I went around the web looking for placing/items that actually supported or donated to the cause.ou can also visit Susan G. Komen site and read stories about those that have had breast cancer, those that have lost a loved one from it to finding out how you can support the cause.
Currently Plain Mary is actually donating 20% of all proceeds for those that purchase anything from her pink pages. Hurry on over, there’s stuff like: embroidered burp clothes, mini …read more

An LA Restaurant was recently fined for firing an employee that breastfed her baby during hebreaks. As you can imagine this did not go over very well with the community of breastfeeding moms or the legal department.
Jesus Acosta, the owner of Acosta Tacos, has been fined $46,000 for firing Marina Chavez. She sued him for emotional suffering and lost pay. Keep in mind the only thing that she got fired for was actually feeding her baby during her breaks. I could understand if this was done while working but not on a break.
This isn’t the only problem …read more

August is breastfeeding awareness month and for the month of August I think we should chit chat about
breasts and breastfeeding. What do you think? I know not all of us have breastfed our children, some couldn’t and some chose not to do it, for whatever reason we’ve it doesn’t matter … we’ve all heard of it. For myself, I have serious stories and not so serious and sometimes comical stories. I’m sure some of you all do too and I’d like to hear them. On posts that I write “Breastfeeding” in I hope that you join me or if you’d rather …read more

I’ve had four children, all four were breastfed and weaned. Yes I can say each one has their own story on how they finally ended their breastfeeding days. Some weren’t so nice to mommy whilethers just made her feel bad, only two would give it up on their own with no fighting me. I think the first and last were the hardest to wean, I’m not sure if that’s because one was a first and last baby. What were the reactions of your children when it came time to wean?
With my first I ended up with two bad cases …read more

A reader wrote in the comments asking other Babylune readers if they knew the Kentucky breastfeeding laws. Apparently his wife has gone back to work but they aren’t very supportive of breastfeeding.
Here’s some quick info I did find on Kentucky and Breastfeeding:
- Forty-three states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands have laws with language specifically allowing women to breastfeed in any public or private location.
- Twenty-eight states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws
- Twelve states and Puerto Rico exempt breastfeeding mothers from jury duty
I did notice that …read more