Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval

Posted on July 8, 2024 by Admin

Doctors deplore decision and point to country’s high neonatal mortality rate as bank, which opened in June, forced to close without taking a single deposit

When he heard a hospital in Karachi was setting up a milk bank for babies, the news was a “huge relief” to Mohammad Munawwar.

With his wife very sick and their premature son Ayan in hospital, the 52-year-old father had had to collect milk five or six times a day from different female relatives who were breastfeeding their own babies.

Boots baby formula ads on Google broke rules, says UK watchdog

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Admin

Retailer apologises for error, with such advertising banned in case it discourages breastfeeding

Online adverts for Boots for four infant formula products broke advertising rules designed to protect breastfeeding, the advertising watchdog has found.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) made the ruling in response to a complaint that the health and beauty retailer’s infant formula products had been advertised on Google.

Second breastfeeding woman asked to leave Victorian court

Posted on March 13, 2023 by Admin

Allowing mother and child, who was crying, to remain during closing remarks would distract jurors, judge says

A woman has been asked to leave a Victorian county court while breastfeeding an unsettled baby days after a judge ejected another woman who was also breastfeeding her child.

The judge’s move last week was criticised after he said the breastfeeding would “be a distraction for the jury at the very least”.

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Judge defends ejection of breastfeeding mother and baby from Melbourne court as ‘self-explanatory’

Posted on March 9, 2023 by Admin

Doctors and advocates says move ‘not acceptable’ after judge asked a woman feeding her child while observing a trial to leave

A Victorian judge who has been criticised for ejecting a breastfeeding mother and her baby from his courtroom has described his actions as “self-explanatory”.

The woman was feeding her baby while observing a trial in Melbourne’s county court on Thursday when the judge addressed her directly, saying she was not permitted to breastfeed in court because it was a distraction.

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Boom in Australia breast milk sales and donations a risk to infants, expert says

Posted on December 6, 2022 by Admin

Online black market exists where breast milk is bought by cancer patients, athletes and bodybuilders, among others

An exponential growth in Australians donating or selling breast milk online is putting infants at risk of disease, a bioethicist says, calling for human milk to be defined as a “tissue” and regulated in the same way as blood.

There are Facebook groups facilitating the donation or sale of breast milk in every state and territory. The “about” section for one group states: “Please post milky requests, offers and milk-sharing questions … It can be helpful to include details such as the age of your baby and your location or how far you are willing to travel.”

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‘Aggressive’ marketing of formula milk flouts code, warns WHO as it urges curbs

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Admin

‘Misleading’ messages from $55bn-a-year industry are ‘unethical’, says report, which calls for plain packaging rules similar to tobacco

Countries should clamp down on the “aggressive” and “unethical” marketing of formula milk for babies, including forcing companies to sell products in plain packaging, a report by the World Health Organization and Unicef has said.

In research, commissioned 41 years after the global health community drew up guidelines aimed at regulating the industry, experts found that the marketing of formula had “no limits” and had become more “unregulated and invasive” in the digital age.

Peter Greaves obituary

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Admin

My friend Peter Greaves, who has died aged 89, was a health and nutrition officer for Unicef whose work made a huge difference to children’s lives around the world. He was an early advocate of low-cost interventions including immunisation, oral rehydration and breastfeeding.

While he was Unicef’s chief nutrition adviser in the mid-1980s, he managed to get Unicef and the World Health Organization to agree on the final draft of The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. This document helped transform global maternal care policies.

Barbara Hershey on Beaches, Woody Allen and breastfeeding on TV: ‘I was an innocent’

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Admin

Now 73, the star of Hannah and Her Sisters shines in Jason Blum’s new horror. She talks about why audiences are hungry for mature movies, and her unhappiness at becoming an accidental poster girl for cosmetic surgery

In 1973, Barbara Hershey – then known as Barbara Seagull, for reasons we’ll get into shortly – went on the popular US talkshow The Dick Cavett Show and torpedoed her career. She was on alongside her then partner, the actor David Carradine, but when Hershey/Seagull walked out on stage, she could hear their eight-month-old baby crying off-camera. So she ran off and returned with the little boy, named Free. Unfortunately, Free continued to fret. So Hershey/Seagull breastfed her baby live on air. Cavett was stunned and so, clearly, were the producers, who cut to commercials.

“Did you breastfeed the baby earlier or was that my imagination?” Cavett asked when they returned, Free now fed. “I did it,” Hershey, then 25, replied, entirely unabashed.

‘I refuse to visit his grave’: the trauma of mothers caught in Israel-Gaza conflict

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Admin

Many women have lost children, been separated from newborns or are unable to breastfeed and bond with their babies because of the war

In the last month of her pregnancy, May al-Masri was preparing dinner when a rocket landed outside her home in northern Gaza, killing her one-year-old son, Yasser.

Masri had felt the explosion’s shockwave when the attack happened last month, but was largely unharmed. Running outside once the air had cleared, she found her husband severely wounded and her child’s body covered in blood.

Study finds alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in US mothers’ breast milk

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Admin

Toxic chemicals known as PFAS found in all 50 samples tested at levels nearly 2,000 times what is considered safe in drinking water

A new study that checked American women’s breast milk for PFAS contamination detected the toxic chemical in all 50 samples tested, and at levels nearly 2,000 times higher than the level some public health advocates advise is safe for drinking water.

The findings “are cause for concern” and highlight a potential threat to newborns’ health, the study’s authors say.

‘Stop the Breast Pest’: MP’s ‘horror’ at being photographed while breastfeeding

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Admin

Stella Creasy launches campaign to change law after a boy took pictures of her feeding her baby on a train

An MP has described her “horror” after she was photographed while breastfeeding on public transport, as she and a fellow MP launch a campaign to criminalise the taking of such pictures.

Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, said she was breastfeeding her then four-month-old on a overground train near Highbury and Islington in north London when she noticed a teenage boy laughing and taking pictures.

‘She can’t say no’: the Ugandan men demanding to be breastfed

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Admin

A study is looking into the coercive practice in Uganda, amid calls for the government to address the issue

Jane’s* husband likes breast milk. “He says he likes the taste of it, and that it helps him in terms of his health. He feels good afterwards,” said the 20-year-old from Uganda, who has a six-month-old baby.

Jane said her husband started asking for her milk the night she came home from the hospital after giving birth. “He said it was to help me with the milk flow. I felt it was OK.”

This porridge is just right: homemade baby food that’s big business in India | Amrita Gupta

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Admin

Entrepreneurs are cooking up wholesome alternatives to sugary baby formulas in a country where only one baby in 10 gets the recommended nutrition

When her baby was six months old, Dr Hemapriya Natesan found herself appalled by the sugary commercial baby food available. With her mother, she began to make batches of mullaikatiya sathumaavu, a traditional porridge for weaning infants in Tamil Nadu, southern India.

It’s a painstaking 10-day process with more than 15 grains, lentils and nuts. Many of the ingredients are first sprouted, then sun-dried in the sweltering heat before being slow-roasted, ground and sieved.

Kenyan MP forced out of parliament for bringing baby into chamber – video

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Admin

An MP was ejected from the Kenyan parliament after she brought her baby into the chamber. Zuleikha Hassan brought her five-month-old daughter into the chamber because of an emergency at home, but she was ordered to leave because house rules state 'strangers' are not allowed in the area

Kenyan MP and baby ejected from parliament session

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Category Archives: Breastfeeding

Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval

Boots baby formula ads on Google broke rules, says UK watchdog

Second breastfeeding woman asked to leave Victorian court

Judge defends ejection of breastfeeding mother and baby from Melbourne court as ‘self-explanatory’

Boom in Australia breast milk sales and donations a risk to infants, expert says

‘Aggressive’ marketing of formula milk flouts code, warns WHO as it urges curbs

Peter Greaves obituary

Barbara Hershey on Beaches, Woody Allen and breastfeeding on TV: ‘I was an innocent’

‘I refuse to visit his grave’: the trauma of mothers caught in Israel-Gaza conflict

Study finds alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in US mothers’ breast milk

‘Stop the Breast Pest’: MP’s ‘horror’ at being photographed while breastfeeding

‘She can’t say no’: the Ugandan men demanding to be breastfed

This porridge is just right: homemade baby food that’s big business in India | Amrita Gupta

Kenyan MP forced out of parliament for bringing baby into chamber – video