Listen up people! There has been another sighting of Bottlefeeding In Public (BIP)! Some customers complained to management, but management said BIP was protected by law. So it’s time to get personal. It’s time to launch the Anti-Bottlefeeding Coalition Denounces Eating Freely Campaign (the ABCDEF Campaign for short). Modern society cannot tolerate babies eating from bottles in public! Whether you breastfeed or bottlefeed in the privacy of your own home, in the name of all that is decent, modest, and right, prepare yourself to make the following arguments against BIP:
BIP is unsanitary! You don’t know what’s in that bottle! It …read more

When my preschooler was three, all she wanted for Christmas was a Baby Born doll (pictured at left). Her friend had a similar Zapf Creation doll, Baby Annabell, and of course my daughter wanted one too. Baby Born comes with a potty and a plastic plate and spoon and even some pretend “food” (don’t get me started about that gooey mess!) It never occurred to me to question the fact that the doll also comes with a pacifier and a baby bottle until other nursing mothers mentioned to me (nicely) that they don’t buy their little girls dolls with bottles. …read more

Today’s breastfeeding humor takes us back to an old episode of the sitcom “Mad About You.” In an episode entitled “Breastfeeding,” Jamie and Paul have the following exchange:
Paul gazes wistfully at his daughter at Jamie’s breast.
Jamie [pausing]: There’s tuna salad…
Paul: No, no, thank you! I just, I was wondering…
Jamie: What?
Paul: …how close you are to, you know, using the bottle at all, to any degree.
Jamie: Soon.
Paul: I know soon, but like, like when?
Jamie: Like soon! I don’t want to give this up. I love this!
Paul: Who’s saying give it up? I would never say give it up. I’m saying augment. …read more