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February 22nd, 2012
Conwy Breastfeeding Friends Peer Supporters have been nominated for the Pride Of Conwy Award and have decided to open their doors to those wanting further information about training to become a Peer Supporter.
Have you ever thought you’d like to help other mothers? Have you breastfed your children for a 6 months or longer? If so then come along to Princes Drive Baptist Church, Colwyn Bay, LL29 8LA on the Wednesday 7th March, from 10am-12pm.
You can ask questions about the training and what’s involved. You can also find out about becoming a Breastfeeding Councillor too. If you would like some Peer Support yourself, then you are welcome too.
There will be some filming for our awards clip but that won’t take up much time. Tea and coffee will be available and some friendly faces and children are always welcome.
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February 22nd, 2012
 This is how Lactivists celebrate pancake day! Pancakes that look like boobs!
Boobs, mums and babies made out of pancakes! Pancakes in a bra! Strawberry aereolas and nipply bits! One mum said her daughter looked at her boob pancakes and said “not your boob though mummy. Thanks for making my boob food!”
Thank you to everyone who sent in pictures for the Lactivist Facebook Wall!
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February 20th, 2012
Karen, the lovely mum behind www.boobiemilk.co.uk (who sponsor Lactivist) is going to be sponsoring the breastfeeding room at the Sussex Baby and Toddler show in Hastings on the 10th March.
She would like to know if you have any ideas for things she can do in the room. She can put posters up, leaflets, anything really. What would make it really good? There will already be water, flowers, some free sample breast pads in the room.
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February 20th, 2012
To print this out on A4 paper just click this link – keep_calm_carry_on_poster to open a PDF.
If you prefer this one, click this link – keep_calm_latch_on_poster
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February 20th, 2012
 Thank you to Ruth for telling us about this on the Lactivist Facebook Page.
NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent have had an extraordinary response to their ‘Keep calm and carry on Breastfeeding’ campaign.
The purpose of the campaign is to drive home the message that it’s now illegal to ask someone to stop breastfeeding in public, and that women who wish to breastfeed should keep calm and carry on.
Breastfeeding has many health benefits for both mum and baby – including reducing the risk of breast cancer.
Breastfed babies are also less likely to suffer from asthma, eczema, allergies and diabetes in later life, and require less medical treatment and hospitalisation than bottle fed babies.
Want to spread the word?
The ‘Keep calm and carry on breastfeeding’ artwork can be downloaded and used by anyone who wants to create a poster, t-shirt, mug – or any other way to spread the word about breastfeeding.
http://www.easternandcoastalkent.nhs.uk/your-health/baby-matters/keep-calm-and-carry-on-breastfeeding/
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February 16th, 2012
To open up a PDF of a certificate you can print out and give to anyone who has helped you with breastfeeding just click on this link -
loved by lactivists
 if you want one that doesn’t mention the Lactivist Facebook page click this link – loved by lactivists no mention of facebook
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February 16th, 2012
BREAKING NEWS from http://formulafree.com/pages/FacebookDebate.htm
Facebook is a very resourceful place for social and business networking. However as most people have heard through the media lately, Facebook has removed profile pictures of breastfeeding.
While there are many opinions about repeated removals and no attempt by Facebook to accept the breastfeeding photos, I thought WHY?!? Why is it a big deal? Why would Facebook remove nursing photographs (most of which barley show any breast)?
The researched and factual answer is:
A Facebook Shareholder is the owner of an Infant Formula Company!
- Billionaire Li Ka-Shang who is a Facebook Shareholder of 0.75% (an estimated $165 million value) owns Hutchison China MediTech Ltd.
This may not appear to be a substantial amount, however when you review the shareholder list for Facebook it is a substantial influence.
Hutchison China MediTech Ltd announced on May 26, 2011 that it will enter the Chinese infant-formula milk powder market through cooperation with Hain Celestial Group Inc, a leading US natural and organic products company.
“By launching Earth’s Best and Zhi Ling Tong co-branded organic infant formula in China, the companies are targeting the country’s premium market” … China “sees 15 million newborn infants every year, thus the market potential of baby milk powder is huge”.
“In the next five years, the company will strive to gain 2 percent market share, which equals some $123 million.”
- A fast mention that Interpublic Group which is another Facebook Shareholder of less than 0.5% (an estimated $110 million value) is the parent company of Draftfcb, and Lowe + Partners.
Draftfcb client list includes Nestle and Pfizer. Both companies are known for infant formula. Lowe + Partners also list Nestle as a client.
You might ask what this has to do with breastfeeding photos on Facebook. That is a simple answer; however, you tell me why Facebook’s shareholders who invest in an infant formula company would want to stop the promotion of breastfeeding?
There are many debates and disagreements within our society of how to raise a child. But there is no synthetic substitute that can compare to true Organic Milk from a mother.
Society should be changed for the better, to a culture that promotes Formula Free babies and supports breastfeeding. What society seems to forget is that breastfeeding is normal! The more you see something, the more normal it becomes and the less people will relate a bottle to a baby before a breast.
It seems that Facebook while free to its users comes with a price. Social networking is controlled by those who can afford to control it. One thing the formula companies will never be able to market and never understand is the bond that breastfeeding creates. We do not breastfeed to save money (that is just a bonus), we breastfeed because it’s the best thing for our babies, ourselves, and our environment!
Breastfeeding moms make a difference! Keep up the great work and if you want to pass on the research we’ve done, feel free to Share on Facebook, Tweet it or pin it! We can all make a difference and you already have!
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February 15th, 2012
Nest is a natural parenting store, selling everything you need for a natural pregnancy, birth and for children up to 6 years, from nursing bras to cloth nappies to organic childrenswear.
They are also the latest stockists of Lactivist pro breastfeeding t-shirts and bags!
The Nest natural parenting store and website are now officially open. You can find the store at 74b Fore Street Totnes Devon TQ9 5RU or find them online at www.nest-shop.co.uk.
They also have a Facebook page – www.facebook.com/pages/Nest-Natural-Parenting-Store/134897626622628
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February 15th, 2012
 Monkey Mama Nursing Necklaces are having a sale starting at lunchtime on the 15th February to celebrate Isaac’s birthday and their 24 month bfing milestone – 24 products at 24% off for 24 hours.
Here’s the direct link to the sale section:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/monkeymamanecklaces?section_id=11137689
They are only 12 people away from having 500 likers on Facebook too so if you are not a fan please click on the link - https://www.facebook.com/monkeymamanecklaces?ref=ts, they often have bargains on there so it’s worth keeping an eye on!
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February 12th, 2012
The Biological Norm Breastfeeding Awareness Conference
4th May 2012 The Village Hotel, Bournemouth, Dorset, UK
Speakers:
Dr Michel Odent, Michel Odent is best known as the obstetrician who introduced the concepts of birthing pools and home-like birthing rooms. He has published 12 books in 21 languages and recently completed a trilogy of books, The Scientification of Love, The Farmer and the Obstetrician and The Caesarian.
John Carnochan, Director of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit, who talks about links between a child’s upbringing and environment and the risk they face of falling into violent behaviour.
Dr Kerstin Uvnas who is a recognized as a world authority on oxytocin.
Dr Charlotte Russell who is an infant sleep expert
Ann Sinnott the author of ‘Breastfeeding Older Children’
Contact: Claire Wakefield, Breastfeeding Support Service,
Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust
Community Health Services (Bournemouth and Poole)
551-553 Wallisdown Road, Canford House, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5AG
Email: claire.wakefield@dhuft.nhs.uk
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By Lisa Lactivist, on July 9th, 2008
I’d been having this quite painful twingy feeling deep inside the boob that got mastitis a while back and I thought it was a blocked duct that would sort it self out when the Moo weaned. A month later it was still just as bad so I mailed the fantastic LLL who said that it might be deep tissue thrush. All the symptoms fitted, it felt like mastitis but without the redness or lumps, there was nothing to express to relieve it and I am constantly knackered so just a waiting victim for the thrush fairy.
I have a lovely doctor who is quite tolerant of self diagnosis so she prescribed me some fluconazole and it is a whole load better.
By Lisa Lactivist, on July 9th, 2008
I think 4 weeks without mummy milk means we have weaned now. The last time he asked for some he kept coming off and asking for more, then signing that he was thirsty. I explained to him that when he was smaller he needed much more milk but now he is a bigger boy he doesn’t need so much, and one day he won’t need any. He hasn’t asked for it since. I very carefully didn’t have a ceremonial last breastfeed because I knew I would cry my eyes out. He was not feeding for a few days at a time towards the end and even then just once at bedtime and on one side. It has been a slow and gradual self weaning.
So, there’s an era over.
By Lisa Lactivist, on July 9th, 2008
I think this might be the end of my breastfeeding career.I stopped nursing on one side because the Moo never seemed to drain it properly (no matter what position I tried) and nursing on it made it feel sligtly mastitisy. It feels better left alone. The other boob is fine.
If I offer mummy milk to the Moo he rarely says yes until I have asked a few times so I have stopped offering now. He asked for it yesterday but kept coming off and saying ‘more’ and signing ‘thirsty’ so I don’t think there is much there anyway. I can squeeze a drop out but my milk goddess days are over.
I feel sad about this in lots of ways, but if this is weaning it’s been really easy, and he has led the way for most of it. I have very carefully not had a ‘last breastfeed’ as I think that will make me very sad. He can still have some milk if he aks for it.
By Lisa Lactivist, on July 9th, 2008
The Moo is still on one breastfeed a day, it’s part of out bedtime routine. Somedays it’s a one boob snack, others it’s the full double whammy and occasionally he just isn’t interested. We had a 5 day nursing strike last month and that was grim for me, I got really teary and it ws like the worst type of PMT – I was clumsy, irritable and mostly I just cried and cried. I looked it up and it’s really common for abrupt weaners to feel that way, you could hardly call 21 months of predominatly child led weaning abrupt though. I am fine missing a couple of days now though and the good news is no more bras! Hooray for tiny boobs!
The Moo is very good company now, he is just great to have around and sometimes I feel quite sorry that it’s his bedtime cos I won’t have him around to play with. Other times I clock watch from 5pm though, and I can’t wait to give him to our childminder for a couple of hours.
By Lisa Lactivist, on July 9th, 2008
At every playgroup I go to there are mums who are pregnant again. How do people cope with more than one child? I find it hard enough to cope with the one and I feel a bit inadequate. I feel under pressure to breed again to prove that I too can cope with morning sickness and changing bums, sleepless nights and lively toddlers. I think it would kill me and I’d feel a bit unfaithful to the Moo. How could I possibly love another child as much as I love him?
By Lisa Lactivist, on July 9th, 2008
I don’t mind the hassle of washing them or the fact that they decorate every radiator in the house. I don’t mind smells and spashes. I mind the wrestling match every time I have to change the Moo’s bum.
We are still here breastfeeding by the skin of his teeth. Moo is down to one feed a day and isn’t particualry interested in that one. He is cutting about a hundred teeth at once though so I hope he will be a bit more into it when he feels better. I’d really like to get to 2 years so I just keep offering. He is doing normal toddler things now and starting to tantrum, which we studiously ignore.
By Lisa Lactivist, on July 9th, 2008
For the last 5 days we have been down to one breastfeed a day – the bedtime feed. Moo boy rarely asks during the day and at his nap time I put him in his buggy and walk him to sleep instead of going to bed with him. This means I get less rest but more exercise as I used to fall asleep with him. If he gets ill he wil be back on unlimited boobs. He’s walking pretty well now, climbing too. He says a few words we can understand and seems to be practicing new ones, ‘dul’ being the latest one (cuddle). He signs well, about 40 of them now I think.
By Lisa Lactivist, on July 9th, 2008
Where I live you can get pushchairs for free as they have such a low resale value that people just leave them out for the bin men. The first one I found had dodgy wheels, the second was just too huge and clumsy but I love the third one. It’s got tall handles and a little net bag underneath that just about holds a change of cloth nappy.
The Moo is down to 3 boobings a day, one only at bedtime if he is kept busy and 6 or so if he is not feeling well. I would like my body back, I have no libido and my boobs are off limits to bloke because they generally feel chewed. However, bloke has a million allergies so I want to keep BF until the Moo is 2, unless he self weans earlier. He is walking quite well now, says about 3 things clearly and signs about 30! He can sign that he needs his nappy changed which is very useful. He is loads of fun, he likes dancing and eating playdough.
By Lisa Lactivist, on July 9th, 2008
I’ve been looking at the Moo recently thinking, ‘how on earth did that happen?’ It seems bizarre that I should have a child, let alone such a particulary lovely one. (I may be biased!) He has still got a lovely nature (not inherited) and smiles at almost everyone. He says ‘dad’ and ‘duck’ but can sign about 25 words, all the farm animals and some useful things like ‘nappy’, ‘drink’ and ‘hot’. He signs for boobs most often and I nurse him around 4 times a day.
I am a bit worried about his height as he is still pretty dinky but he is eating well (wheat too at last, but no sugar, meat or dairy) and is getting almost tubby. I’m getting pissed off with snide comments about his height at playgroup and people asking if he is handicapped when I sign to him. I just feel like I am doing my very best for him and have to defend it all the time. Though when I think about it I have a breastfeeding toddler who doesnt watch telly, doesn’t know what a chocolate biccy is, or a burger, doesn’t have a pushchair, is not vaccinated, and has a silly name. I guess I am asking for it. And I think his ‘formula is for suckers’ T-shirt has riled them somewhat.
By Lisa Lactivist, on July 9th, 2008
The Moo boy has been walking for the past 3 weeks and is building up speed daily. He just sort of got up and walked, and practiced constantly. It’s weird now cos I can’t remember a time when he
didn’t. He is picking up signs rapidly and can tell me he is hot, needs his bum changing, wants to eat, wants to read a book or wants a drink – mostly mummy milk. He is good at identifying ducks and cows. He is getting the hang of duplo and can make towers of the really simple blocks.
Nights are better, on a good day he sleeps 11 hours straight through, usually in bed with us. He has a horrible habit of reaching out and pulling my hair in his sleep so sometimes I sleep with my feet on the pillow. Breastfeeding is down to 2 or 3 times a day, it is still magic sleepy stuff and I use it unashamedly to get him to nap and at bedtime. The only problem I have (apart from tooth marks) is him kneading at me like a kitten and playing with my face as I nurse. When it gets really
bad I hold his hand so he can’t hurt me but he gets extremely frustrated at that.
By Lisa Lactivist, on July 9th, 2008
I thought Moo Boy was self weaning ‘cos for the last 2 months he was down to 3 or 4 feeds a day. The last few days all he wants is boob, it’s taking me back to growth spurt times. I know exactly what he wants because he signs ‘where’ and ‘milk’ and lifts my t-shirt up.
By Lisa Lactivist, on July 9th, 2008
“that? that? that?” Moo Boy’s first word is from us saying “what’s that?” to him all the time. He sort of says ‘cat’ as well but it’s not reliable. He signs random waving in the air for most animals and the mummy milk sign is used for all drink and food. His other form of communication is a horrid high pitched scream when he is displeased at his servants attitude, mostly when I take dangerous stuff away from him or move the cat out of his line of fire. I am trying to ignore the scream so he doesn’t know how much it gets to me but I think he has me sussed.
Breastfeeding is random, somedays he is only on one feed a day, today it was 4 feeds. I am ok as long as he drinks from both sides but sometimes I need to express a tiny bit into the bath to relieve the pressure. He is eating well, keen on all veg so far, likes my rye bread, fish and eggs. I am getting fat because I eat up all the food he leaves behind. I am still keeping him off wheat and dairy. Bedtimes are late, it’s nearly midnight now and he has just gone to sleep, he sometimes sleeps through now and I never thought that would happen. I need my evenings back to regain some sanity as I am exhausted.
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