Ananova - Artist plans to serve food made from urine and breast milk "A German artist is planning to serve diners meals made from urine and human breast milk.
Conceptual artist Karl-Friedrich Lentze has applied for a permission to serve soups enriched with urine and cakes made of breast milk in a restaurant in the town of Euskirchen." [Ugh. What bugs me the most about this is the association between urine and breast milk - what is he trying to say, that ingesting breastmilk is as disgusting as urine? Or that urine is healthy and natural. It doesn't work for me. - JC]
Thursday, February 06, 2003
The Two baby deaths reportedThe Courier Mail reports a possible murder of a 10 month old, and then says:
" In a separate incident, detectives are investigating the death of a one-month-old baby boy at a New Farm house in Brisbane's inner-city at 3am yesterday.
Police said it appeared the mother may have accidentally suffocated the child after she fell asleep while breastfeeding.
Police said the death was not suspicious but investigations were continuing."
[ What a tragedy. It seems more and more we are getting these reports of babies suffocated in their parent's beds, and we see admonishments about not sleeping with baby. This story makes it clear - "fell asleep while breastfeeding." We need to work hard on this issue. We need to work for accurate news reports. One thing we can do is to present the numbers of co-sleeping families and then get news outlets to do reports on safe co-sleeping. This will sensitize journalists to the realities and help them look for co-factors when reporting these deaths. - JC]
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" In a separate incident, detectives are investigating the death of a one-month-old baby boy at a New Farm house in Brisbane's inner-city at 3am yesterday.
Police said it appeared the mother may have accidentally suffocated the child after she fell asleep while breastfeeding.
Police said the death was not suspicious but investigations were continuing."
[ What a tragedy. It seems more and more we are getting these reports of babies suffocated in their parent's beds, and we see admonishments about not sleeping with baby. This story makes it clear - "fell asleep while breastfeeding." We need to work hard on this issue. We need to work for accurate news reports. One thing we can do is to present the numbers of co-sleeping families and then get news outlets to do reports on safe co-sleeping. This will sensitize journalists to the realities and help them look for co-factors when reporting these deaths. - JC]
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Wednesday, February 05, 2003
Lebanese winter dishes the perfect recipe to fight the cold
[This article about Lebanese winter dishes includes a reference to "the famous aynar drink made of herbs and spices, the essence of carnation, and loose tea leaves. “Aynar is very healthy and is usually used to fight colds and coughs,” Maya Khoury, a 30-year-old dietitian, explains. “And if a mother is breast-feeding her child, drinking aynar helps her increase her milk.”” [Hmm, colds and coughts, I wonder if Aynar contains fenugreek? - JC]]
[This article about Lebanese winter dishes includes a reference to "the famous aynar drink made of herbs and spices, the essence of carnation, and loose tea leaves. “Aynar is very healthy and is usually used to fight colds and coughs,” Maya Khoury, a 30-year-old dietitian, explains. “And if a mother is breast-feeding her child, drinking aynar helps her increase her milk.”” [Hmm, colds and coughts, I wonder if Aynar contains fenugreek? - JC]]
icCheshireOnline - Mothers' gifts of life Cheshireonline,
Feb 4 2003,
By David Charters, Daily Post Staff,
"IN THE touch of their tiny hands and their wide smiles the 'Billy Boys' today offer a picture of hope, love and faith.
But the moving story of the twins, James and Curtis, could not have been told if it had not been for the expertise and dedica-tion of staff at the Special Care Baby Unit at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral.
And now their parents, Elisé and Mark Billy, are thanking them by raising money to provide the unit with a bank of mothers' milk, often vital to the survival of premature babies...." [Every hospital should have a human milk bank. - JC]
Feb 4 2003,
By David Charters, Daily Post Staff,
"IN THE touch of their tiny hands and their wide smiles the 'Billy Boys' today offer a picture of hope, love and faith.
But the moving story of the twins, James and Curtis, could not have been told if it had not been for the expertise and dedica-tion of staff at the Special Care Baby Unit at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral.
And now their parents, Elisé and Mark Billy, are thanking them by raising money to provide the unit with a bank of mothers' milk, often vital to the survival of premature babies...." [Every hospital should have a human milk bank. - JC]
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