Go Ahead and Cry. It's Happy Hour.
New York Times
By TRIPTI LAHIRI
Published: February 20, 2004
On a recent Monday afternoon, a woman wandered into Terra 47, a cheery little cafe off Union Square in Manhattan.
She quickly retreated, her eyes wide as she backed out of the restaurant's red Art Nouveau-style doors.
It might have been that the tiny lemon-yellow space was already bursting at the seams. It might have been the occasional bared breast. Or just possibly, it might have been that some of the tipplers inside appeared to be shy of the current drinking age - by a couple of decades. ..."
Friday, February 20, 2004
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Breast-Feeding At Work; ADHS Promotes And Practices Policy
: "Arizona Capitol Times
By Sandi J. miller and David R. Miller
"Diana Ogden encourages businesses to allow breast-feeding in the workplace. Ms. Ogden knows what can happen when mothers are discouraged. "I had a client who said her boss would not let her pump breast milk anywhere in the business," she says. "She'd have to go out to her car, in 110-degree weather. What a horrible thing." As a site supervisor and nutritionist with the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Ms. Ogden is determined to erase the stigma associated with breast-feeding in the workplace. She's not alone. The Arizona Department of Health Services has initiated a breast-feeding program to address issues and increase the practice though education, awareness and policy change. The program promotes breast-feeding as the superior method of feeding infants and young children in order to build their immunity to disease and help form strong, straight teeth...."
: "Arizona Capitol Times
By Sandi J. miller and David R. Miller
"Diana Ogden encourages businesses to allow breast-feeding in the workplace. Ms. Ogden knows what can happen when mothers are discouraged. "I had a client who said her boss would not let her pump breast milk anywhere in the business," she says. "She'd have to go out to her car, in 110-degree weather. What a horrible thing." As a site supervisor and nutritionist with the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Ms. Ogden is determined to erase the stigma associated with breast-feeding in the workplace. She's not alone. The Arizona Department of Health Services has initiated a breast-feeding program to address issues and increase the practice though education, awareness and policy change. The program promotes breast-feeding as the superior method of feeding infants and young children in order to build their immunity to disease and help form strong, straight teeth...."
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Gods breastfeeding? Bajrang Dal appalled
"Gods breastfeeding? Bajrang Dal appalled
NGO faces flak for"radical posters" JAIPUR, FEBRUARY 10: Trial posters developed for a health programme run by NGO CARE India were confiscated after Bajrang Dal activists in Udaipur objected to Gods being used as symbols to promote breastfeeding. Posters depicting goddeses Yashoda and Parvati feeding Krishna and Ganesha were among those found objectionable."
"Gods breastfeeding? Bajrang Dal appalled
NGO faces flak for"radical posters" JAIPUR, FEBRUARY 10: Trial posters developed for a health programme run by NGO CARE India were confiscated after Bajrang Dal activists in Udaipur objected to Gods being used as symbols to promote breastfeeding. Posters depicting goddeses Yashoda and Parvati feeding Krishna and Ganesha were among those found objectionable."
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Moral Mob Mauled Blind by Janet's Areola Borealis: "Published on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 by the Daytona Beach News-Journal
by Pierre Tristam
"At Halifax Memorial Hospital three months ago I found myself locked, without a valid avenue of escape, in a four-hour seminar on breastfeeding. Expectant mothers outnumbered extraneous fathers by a ratio of six to one, though there I was, one of those ones duly seated next to my wife and the future terror she was carrying. I wasn't playing sensitive husband. I have no illusions that men could be much more than third wheels when it comes to such things as birth and breastfeeding. The sensitivity cartel finds things for men to do, of course. But if make-work of the foot-massage and shoulder-to-cry-on variety generally makes men feel less useless, it doesn't begin to diminish post-partum agonies on the other side (nor make up for only vicariously experiencing the elation of life-giving). The reason I was attending the seminar was mostly anthropological. I wanted to take stock of the breast in third-millennium America. If the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons, as Dostoevsky may or may not have said, the degree of imbecility in a society can be judged by the way it handles its breasts. Come to find that I could have skipped the four-hour epic at Halifax for the flash of Janet Jackson's areola borealis at the Superbowl halftime show. The cultural uprising let loose by that split-second flop says more about the nation's arrested development than a year's worth of Ph.D. theses from every sociology department in the hemisphere. "
by Pierre Tristam
"At Halifax Memorial Hospital three months ago I found myself locked, without a valid avenue of escape, in a four-hour seminar on breastfeeding. Expectant mothers outnumbered extraneous fathers by a ratio of six to one, though there I was, one of those ones duly seated next to my wife and the future terror she was carrying. I wasn't playing sensitive husband. I have no illusions that men could be much more than third wheels when it comes to such things as birth and breastfeeding. The sensitivity cartel finds things for men to do, of course. But if make-work of the foot-massage and shoulder-to-cry-on variety generally makes men feel less useless, it doesn't begin to diminish post-partum agonies on the other side (nor make up for only vicariously experiencing the elation of life-giving). The reason I was attending the seminar was mostly anthropological. I wanted to take stock of the breast in third-millennium America. If the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons, as Dostoevsky may or may not have said, the degree of imbecility in a society can be judged by the way it handles its breasts. Come to find that I could have skipped the four-hour epic at Halifax for the flash of Janet Jackson's areola borealis at the Superbowl halftime show. The cultural uprising let loose by that split-second flop says more about the nation's arrested development than a year's worth of Ph.D. theses from every sociology department in the hemisphere. "
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