Friday, May 11, 2012

HuffPo: Trevor MacDonald: Thank You, Facebook, For Feeding My Baby

A must read! Transgender parenting, the relative risk of feeding infant formula vs milksharing, conflict about Facebook's capacity to do good, community bonds that result in women seeking donor milk from two men with a freezer full...
Trevor MacDonald: Thank You, Facebook, For Feeding My Baby  
Huffington Post  Posted: 05/11/2012 2:00 am 
...A few years ago, before the existence of HM4HB on Facebook, our baby would have been primarily formula-fed. Ironically, for many months the social networking site has also been removing comparatively modest breastfeeding photos from members' walls due to supposed indecency. I can only say that I am left with a love-hate relationship with the Facebook empire -- it is the frame that both supports and attempts to limit our human milk sharing engine....