UpSpring Baby’s Milkscreen Tests: Predatory Products
Here’s the gist of things: UpSpring Baby is a company that makes a handful of maternity/baby products. Two such products are the Milkscreen: Assessment test kit and the Milkscreen: Alcohol test strips....
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Prolacta Now Competes with Nonprofit Milk Banks
Back in 2011, I wrote several posts detailing the underhanded marketing tactics of Prolacta Bioscience. Much of what was written then is still true today. At the time, they made steadfast claims that...
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Goodbye Gluten Bread says Hello, GMO Soy!
Oh, Goodbye Gluten. You had to be a heart-breaker, didn’t you? Since going GF, I’ve heard tons of good things about the breads from Goodbye Gluten. I miss bread; I’m not trying to replace it and eat it...
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Conversations, confrontations, and why breastfeeding advocates fail.
A baby bottle in a casket. Keep it classy, guys. Didn’t I just go over why this kind of crap fails? If you advocate from a place of smug superiority, images like this one and the one in this post will...
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It’s Time We Break Up with the WHO Code, Breastfeeding Advocates
Dear WHO Code, It’s not me, it’s you. Love, Amy This will come as a shock to a lot of people, but I suspect I’m not the only breastfeeding advocate who’s ready to write a Dear John letter to the...
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Breast, Formula, Baby Friendly, and the “Nanny State”
Someone shared a post called, “The Literal Nanny State — Breastfeeding And Public Health Officials” on Facebook and (perhaps foolishly) I clicked through to read it. (The tagline of the piece: “Some...
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Halloween Magics
I was pretty much operating at grumpiness level Scrooge when it came to Halloween this year. I put off getting Ava a costume, we decorated here and there over the course of three weeks. (And that was...
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The Baby Crap Trap
Don’t get sucked in! You get pregnant the first time, and you go to Babies R Us, and you are hit with the immediate need to BUY ALL THE THINGS! (Or hey, register for all of them!) That is the Baby Crap...
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The Breastfeeding Police
There are breastfeeding “advocates” out there who’ve come to love the message more than the moms. They would have you believe that you will never be a good enough mother. Or a good enough advocate....
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Upcycling Your Formula Freebies
[Note: This is a guest post by Suzanne Barston, CLC, aka the Fearless Formula Feeder. (I know, some people reading this probably already clicked away in a huff. I'd say those people aren't in the...
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