~ Check out the 12 full-color pictures from the IBFAN Breastfeeding Calendar 2010. The calendar is available from Baby Milk Action for £7, £6 if ordering 10 or more. Add £2 per calendar for shipping and handling outside the United Kingdom (although you might be able to order a calendar from your national International Baby Food Action Netork group).

~ The 2010 Australian Breastfeeding Association Calendar features 14 breastfeeding pictures selected from thousands of submissions. It sells for AUD $15 plus postage.

La Leche League of Central Lake County, IL 2010 Breastfeeding Calendar

~ New this year is the La Leche League of Central Lake County, IL 2010 breastfeeding calendar! You can preview the pictures at the site and order through PayPal. Each calendar is sold for $15.00, including tax and shipping. Proceeds from the sale of the calendar will help fund breastfeeding education and support for the mothers and children of Central Lake County, Illinois.

~ Also new this year is the 2010 Calendar from the Rugby Breastfeeding Cafe in the UK. You can watch a slide show of the pictures, then order the calendar for £10 plus shipping. It’s available both in and outside the UK.

~ The New Mexico Breastfeeding Task Force held a contest for pictures for its 2010 Breastfeeding Calendar. Watch the task force home page for announcement of the 2010 release. The 2009 version is still for sale.

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Book Review

The sturdy 5″ x 6″ board book features 12 gorgeous images on six (front and back) pages. The pictures include nurslings ranging from a 4-day-old newborn (make me cry will you?!) to a 3-year-old toddler. The pictures stand alone without captions or other text.

I was curious to see how my children would like the book. My 7-year-old, too old for board books in general, was completely unfazed by the book. She thinks it’s perfectly normal to see images of breastfeeding mothers and babies. My 4-year-old was enchanted. “Ooh, a book about mamas and babies!” (note how the fact that the mamas and babies are breastfeeding is completely secondary!) She later picked the book up again on her own and started making up a story for it. “Breastfeeding is good. If you want to breastfeed, here is how you do it.” Yes!

My 1-year-old gave the book the true test. She liked the pictures of the babies, and being a baby herself, she liked trying to gnaw off the corners of the book! It’s a well-made, sturdy board book that stood up to her playing with it.

You can see more breastfeeding pictures from the book here and you can order a copy of the book here (I have no affiliation with the book so you’re getting my independent review). At $29.95 the price might seem high but the quality of the photography and the quality of the book are high too!

What do you think of the book and pictures? Do you have a breastfeeding photo you would like me to feature on the blog? Email me a breastfeeding photo of your own for future publication in a post at Breastfeeding 1-2-3.

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Breastfeeding: A Vital Emergency Response

The photos are fascinating but heart-wrenching in some cases, like the image of the woman who was a victim of domestic violence. Here I am grateful to be nursing my baby through a simple case of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease, and there are women breastfeeding in relief camps, in war zones, in areas severely damaged by an earthquake. You can view all of the photos in WABA’s 2009 World Breastfeeding Week Action folder (large PDF download), or you can view them temporarily on the WABA WBW home page.

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Photo courtesy of jessicafm

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Leave a comment!

If you have had breastfeeding photos taken, what do you do with them? Have you shared them with friends, posted them on a blog, or used them for avatars on web sites? Is there an age of the nursling after which breastfeeding photos are no longer appropriate? What about this news story (via Blacktating) that tells how a family’s children were taken away by child protective services when the photo development service saw pictures of the baby nursing?

Poll removed; please leave a comment!

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Entries are due March 24, 2009 by submitting this entry form (Word document) to WABA. Ten lucky winners will receive $100 each and have their winning photos featured in the WBW materials distributed to 120 countries! Good luck!

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Virtual Nurse-In

Organizers explain:

Facebook continues to classify breastfeeding photos as obscene content. They continue to arbitrarily remove these photos from member albums and profiles, accompanied by warnings of account termination. This is highly discriminatory and an affront to nursing mothers everywhere. In protest of this, Mothers International Lactation Campaign (M.I.L.C.) has planned a virtual day of protest.

Not only is human lactation responsible for the very survival of our species, it is in no way a sexually explicit, lewd or despicable act. It is also protected by law in most countries, including specifically the state where Facebook is headquartered in the USA.

In protest to the discriminatory and unjust policy of Facebook administration classifying breastfeeding images as obscene content, on December 27th, 2008 M.I.L.C. is asking all of you to change your profile picture for one day, to one which includes an image of a nursing mom.

This could be a picture of you or someone you know nursing a child, it could be a painting or image of a sculpture of a breastfeeding woman, it could also be a photo or image of any nursing mammal….We ask that you include the status line of “Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!”

In addition to this ‘virtual nurse-in’, there will be other events planned around the globe. Please check this page often for regular updates and added information. We will also be including images that you can use for your profile picture on December 27th.

Live Nurse-In

If you are in the Palo Alto, California area, consider attending the live nurse-in at the Facebook headquarters!

When: Saturday, December 27, 2008, at 11 a.m.
Where: Outside the Facebook office at 156 Uni­versity Ave., Palo Alto, California

MSNBC Media Coverage

Coverage of the planned events has hit mainstream media with this video story from MSNBC.

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~ Check out the 12 full-color pictures from the IBFAN Breastfeeding Calendar 2009. The calendar is available from Baby Milk Action for £7, £6 if ordering 10 or more. Add £2 per calendar for shipping and handling outside the United Kingdom (although you might be able to order a calendar from your national International Baby Food Action Netork group). The 2008 Calendar is also available for £3.

~ The 2009 Australian Breastfeeding Association Calendar features 16 breastfeeding pictures selected from thousands of submissions. It sells for AUD $15 plus postage.

~ The 2009 Mothering magazine calendar features a variety of photos and includes resources on breastfeeding and other helpful topics. It sells for U.S. $18.95.

~ You can watch the slideshow of the breastfeeding images from the 2009 Sonoma County Breastfeeding Calendar. The calendar is due out in November.

~ The New Mexico Breastfeeding Task Force held a contest for pictures for its 2009 Breastfeeding Calendar. Watch the task force home page for announcement of the 2009 release. The 2008 version is still for sale.

See this link for the 2010 calendars and breastfeeding pictures!

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