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You Caught Me(me)!

Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:01:37 +0000

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 (I vaguely recall a dire warning about not mixing old and new batteries, but I risked it all for you, people!), and I asked my four-and-a-half-year-old to take this picture of me about five minutes ago:

I’m sitting in my computer room/study, which has fresh paint on the walls along with fresh crayon and pencil drawings by my toddler (time to break out the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser again). The hardwood floors are newly re-finished and the only reason the computer desk is relatively clean is that we just moved the furniture back into the room. The blue chair is a hand-me-down from my old law firm. The firm gave away its old chairs and I gladly snagged that one. My cats gladly “snagged” that one too–you can see they use it as a scratching post. That’s Lily snuggling with me as I read. She’s sitting on my winter coat, and we are both resting against the headrest that fell off into the seat and I left there because it makes a wonderful back support!

I’m eating leftover Oriental Cabbage Noodle Salad that I made for a La Leche League potluck lunch meeting earlier today.

Before I tag some people to participate in the meme, here’s one more photo, just because it’s cute and I downloaded it with my picture:

Okay, I tag Hsien, because I know she always has her camera at the ready, and Tanya, because I’ve never seen a picture of her. Play by the rules girls and come as you are. No running off to put on make-up (I was sorely tempted to cheat)!

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Photos from Delta Nurse-In

Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:18:42 +0000

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

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Fake Photo of Elizabeth Vargas Breastfeeding

Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:40:05 +0000

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 image was real and take it seriously.

“We wanted an arresting, satirical image to make the reader stop and read this important story about what happens when job and family collide. This is an image illustration and is stated so with the byline of this story,” the statement said.

If I were Elizabeth Vargas, I’d be upset about this “photo illustration” too. Vargas should be praised for candidly discussing breastfeeding in the article. Shame on the magazine for embarrassing her with such a misleading image.

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