I was just minding my own business, peacefully catching up on some blog reading while my two-year-old napped and my four-year-old watched “Maya & Miguel,” when I was attacked by a meme! Jennifer from The Lactivist invited me to a “come as you are” blog party. I was instructed to take a picture of myself as soon as possible after receiving the invitation, and post the picture along with a description of what I was doing at the time the picture was taken.
I grabbed my digital camera, found two new batteries and stole two old ones from the TiVo remote …read more

Photos from the nurse-in at Reagan International Airport (DCA) have been shared by Robin Abadia. What I love to see (aside from the happy and super-discreet mama and nursling!) are all those breastfeeding icons!

Mama-baby lactivists happily nurse-in at Reagan International

Lactivist being interviewed by National Public Radio

The crowd at DCA

As Andi discussed yesterday, Marie Claire magazine has come under fire for publishing a fake photo of ABC Newswoman Elizabeth Vargas breastfeeding her baby as she reports the news. An article in today’s Boston Herald shows the image in question and reports:
“While Elizabeth Vargas was happy to discuss issues of balancing work and motherhood and is quite proud to breastfeed her newborn son, she was disappointed that Marie Claire chose to Photoshop her head onto a fake image,” an ABC spokesperson said in a written statement.
The magazine defends the phony photo, saying it thought no one would believe the …read more