A Republican Texas State Representative has angered many breastfeeding moms after she posted her opposition to a bill which would make it illegal to question or challenge a mother’s right to breastfeed in public or anywhere she chooses. State Rep. Debbie Riddle (R) said in her Facebook page on Tuesday: “Legislative Update – House Bill ... read more »

A formula feeding mother is said to be suffering “emotional distress” after a mix up at a hospital caused another mother to breastfeed her newborn. The incident happened at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn. on Wednesday morning. According to the Pioneer Press, two babies were mistakenly switched in the nursery and given to the wrong ... read more »

Model Gisele Bündchen, 32, married to New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, 35, has come out in strong support for home births and allowed a column written by her midwife, Ms. Calvetti, to diminish hospital births as “violent”. Gisele gave birth to her first child in 2009 at home and is currently pregnant with her second, ... read more »

An American University professor has sparked a debate that has grown beyond the perimeter of the Washington D.C. campus after she brought her sick baby with her on the first day of class and breastfed in front of her students. According to assistant anthropology professor, Adrienne Pine, her daughter woke up with a fever the ... read more »

Expectant parents attending a breastfeeding education class were subjected to some shocking commentary by one of the class counselors. The mommy wars reached a new low point when the acclaimed speaker told the couples that baby formula is “like AIDS.” “Formula is a little bit like AIDS,” the leading counselor told the group of soon-to-be ... read more »

Put down your Cheerios, folks. In the season 3 premiere of TLC’s “Strange Sex”, a man says that drinking his wife’s breast milk, often “straight from the source”, has improved his erectile dysfunction and improved the couple’s sex life. Jeff and Michelle (who wanted their last names withheld) began sharing her breast milk when their ... read more »

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is looking forward to becoming a first time mom, but there’s one aspect she’s not so sure about–breastfeeding. The 24-year-old reality star reveals she’s hesitant to breastfeed because she’s afraid of how painful it will be. “I’m just scared,” Snooki said on Monday’s Good Morning America. “My friend did and she said it ... read more »

An Illinois mother is suing Cook County after she claims a Cook County Sheriff asked her to leave the courthouse lobby because she was breastfeeding. Natalie Petrovic says she was in the Skokie courthouse because she was applying for public assistance and needed to breastfeed her baby. She says a female deputy told her that ... read more »

Alanis Morissette is not afraid to speak her mind in songs so it’s no surprise that she is taking a stance on the attachment parenting debate in wake of  Time magazine’s controversial cover photo of a mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son. “I’m an attachment parent,” the 37-year-old singer told Access Hollywood in a recent interview. ... read more »

Rebecca Silva, 24, of Brookings, South Dakota has been accused of breaking into another woman’s home and attempting to breast feed her 2-month old baby. According to Brookings, S.D. police, the mother of the baby said she was woken up around 5 a.m. on Sunday by her dogs barking and found Silva sleeping in her bed.  It ... read more »

Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a recommendation that premature infants should be fed with either a mother’s or a donor’s breast milk.  Human milk is generally the most preferable form of nutrition for pre-term and medically fragile babies.  Not all mothers are able to produce enough milk to nourish their babies, and ... read more »

The advocacy group Public Citizen has sent letters to more than 2,600 hospitals asking them to stop giving out free samples of baby formula. Many hospitals give new mothers a corporate sponsored bag with samples of diapers, pamphlets, coupons, and formula. Consumer advocates say that giving the free formula to new mothers may discourage them ... read more »

A mother has been charged in her 6-week-old infant’s death via contaminated breastmilk. The Humboldt County, Calif. mother, Maggie Jean Wortman, 27,  was accused of doing meth and then breastfeeding her son, Michael Acosta III, causing him to die of ‘methamphetamine toxicity’. She has been sentenced to 6 years for voluntary manslaughter, a charge in ... read more »

Amy Strand, a 38-year-old mother of 4, told abc News that she was “humiliated” during an incident that took place on February 29, 2012, at Lihue Airport in Kauai. Strand, who according to her Facebook page works as a Vice Principal for the Hawaii Department of Education, was attempting to board a flight with her electric breast pump and the accompanying cooler ... read more »

In a controversial new study published by Cambridge University researchers in the UK, mother’s of formula fed babies, compared to mothers who exclusively breastfed, report that their formula fed babies are more content, laugh more, cry less and are generally better behaved than their counterparts. The study, which was performed via a series of approximately ... read more »