Articles labeled: breast feeding

I’m gonna start calling breastfeeding a “disability” since some lactating women feel they deserve special concessions. I think formula feeding moms should be given extra time to take board tests too. What if the formula fed baby feels slighted and emotionally damaged from someone else giving them a bottle? It just isn’t right. The injustice of it all!

Breastfeeding mothers must be so fragile and physically limited since they cannot even take an exam, so a Judge and an opportunist decided.

Honestly, if Ms. Currier is afforded extra time, so should everybody else, in my opinion:

In overturning a ruling that denied Ms. Currier the additional 60 minutes of break time she requested, Judge Gary Katzmann said yesterday that she needed the extra time so she could be on “equal footing” with men and nonlactating women taking the test.

The medical examining board said that although it planned to appeal, it would give Ms. Currier the additional time if Judge Katzmann’s order is still in effect when she takes the exam, set for next week. She must pass the exam, which tests clinical knowledge, to receive her medical degree. Without it, she cannot start her residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

In the 26-page ruling, Judge Katzmann said refusing to allow additional time meant that Ms. Currier must choose to either “use her break time to incompletely express breast milk and ignore her bodily functions, or abdicate her decision to express breast milk, resulting in significant pain.”

Medical student and professional whiner and entitlement seeker, Sophie Currier sued to make sure she is found exceptional because she breastfeeds. She wanted the board to allow her extra break times so that she can nurse her baby. The student is already granted allowances under the disability act because she has ADHD and learning disabilities, so she gets to take the exam over 2 days, instead of the 9 hour requirement.

Truthfully, a doctor needing this many allowances to get their license, makes me a little nervous. Lucky for us she’s wanting to go into research and not surgery.

BOSTON: A new mother cannot have extra break time during her nine-hour medical licensing exam so she can pump breast milk to feed her 4-month-old daughter, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Sophie Currier, 33, sued after the National Board of Medical Examiners turned down her request to take more than the standard 45 minutes in breaks during the exam. She said that if she does not nurse her daughter, Lea, or pump breast milk every two to three hours, she risks medical complications.

Well, he did host “Politically Incorrect” for many years. It’s not as if he’s being hypocritical…

On Friday’s episode of Real Time, Bill Maher introduced one of his “new rules,” “Lactate Intolerant,” in which he argues against breastfeeding in public. As he explained, he doesn’t want women showing their tits in public unless they are appropriately packaged for heterosexual male consumption. (Revealing what he thinks is appropriate, he made a snide reference to Britney Spears’ body in one of the other new rules, drawing a good laugh.

Interesting.

The Lactivist community must be reeling from this news. I wonder how they’re gonna spin it.

TORONTO (CP) — The first ever randomized trial to look at the much debated question of whether breastfeeding protects an infant from developing asthma and allergies found that children who were breastfed as babies were not at a lower risk of developing these conditions.

In fact, children whose mothers were in the group urged to continue to breastfeed their children exclusively were more likely to test positive later for five common allergies - dust mites, cat dander, birch and grass pollens and fungi.