Category: breastfeeding
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Breastfeeding Fake News
When I was pregnant with MissM I spent two hours waiting for an obstetrician appointment. The clinic was rammed, one of the doctors was off sick. It’s annoying but it happens. The real problem was the video screen in the waiting room. This showed two videos on loop. The first was full of smiling midwives…
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Meal Plan Monday – Getting Started On Weight Watchers
Happy new year lovely people. How are you all? I’m going to be trying to make quite a few changes with Southwarkbelle this year. More on that in a bit but, at risk of being a new year cliche, I’ve also got a few personal changes to make. The first of those is shifting some…
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Paying Women To Breastfeed: A few things to think about
Our old friend the NoSH study is back in the news today, I wrote about the feasibility study a while ago but they have now conducted and published a much larger trial looking at financial incentives to encourage women to breastfeed. What is the Study? The study looked at electoral ward areas where…
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A Mum’s Guide To Dodgy Science: Cause v Correlation
Time for another in my (very) occasional series of posts giving you tips on how to spot a dubious science story. The previous posts covered Publication By Press Release and the problem of Comparing People To Petri Dishes. This one has a few less P’s in it but it’s a biggy, something that crops up…
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Would Women Be 50% Better Off Not Getting Their Health Facts From Jamie Oliver?
Celebrity chef turned healthy eating campaigner, Jamie Oliver, has been telling us all about the wonders of breastfeeding – Queue backlash and counter backlash but has he got a point and do his stats stack up? Embed from Getty Images //embed.gettyimages.com/embed/543731511?et=hZcAOr2zSqhJ-yDTmFmThQ&viewMoreLink=on&sig=cfSDW1KCjhnIXndtJmZYKsmaCYVUJqwctG_uAb6nqMM= I wasn’t going to, I really wasn’t, but then, yeah, stuff it, it’s my…
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A Mum’s Guide To Dodgy Science: Publication By Press Release
Sometimes, it sucks being a grown up. I’ve actually had enough time to write some blog posts recently but other events have left me with a lack of motivation for anything other than eating cake and reading Tudor crime novels under a blanket (it’s a fairly niche slump). Anyway, in an attempt to drag myself…
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Breastfeeding: Not Glorious, Not Grotesque, Just Ordinary
So, inevitably, as soon as the media have finished telling us all how to give birth it’s time to start instructing us on how to feed those born as they should be babies. There were two main stories in the news this week about breastfeeding and a third which touched on it so, as this is my…
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Paying Women To Breast Feed – Update And Early Results
I wrote last year about a new study that aimed to see if mothers in deprived areas could be encouraged to breastfeed by giving them shopping vouchers if they did. I promised to report back when the results emerged and a few are to be presented soon at a scientific meeting organised by the medical…
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Boob Hacking and Baby Wearing Warriors
I’ve got a(nother) stinking cold. On the plus side this means I can make use of the greatest of the working Mum benefits – I’ve called in sick and am home alone with a Lemsip! Yay! (sort of yay). I would go back to bed at this point but there are several tons of machinery…
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That Story – Paying Women to Breastfeed, A scientific Perspective
I wasn’t going to write about this as so very much has already been said about it in the media and on other blogs. But a couple of people have asked me what I think and I haven’t seen much coverage of the science behind it all, so I’m going to bash out a quick…
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