Category Archives: Aggressive Formula Marketing

Booby Traps Series: From “Ew, gross” to “Isn’t that too old?” TV and film depictions of breastfeeding.

By Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC

Let’s state something right away: TV and film are entertainment. We get that. We know that when we turn on the set or stream a movie, what we see is meant to make us laugh, cry, cringe, shudder, and maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Aggressive Formula Marketing, Blog, Booby Traps, Empower, Inspire, Main Content, Prepare | Tagged 30 rock, bernice hausman, Booby Traps, breastfeedin in the movies, breastfeeding, breastfeeding in film, breastfeeding on tv, breastmilk, chicago hope, friends, gilmore girls, house, katherine foss, me myself and irene, meet the fockers, Mother's Milk, mr. rogers, ponyo, precious, reality tv, reel milk, sesame street, the new normal, the office, two and a half men | 4 Comments
Last revised on 09/26/2013

Guest Post: Do We Need Corporations to Empower Us?

By Annie Urban

This post originally appeared on phdinparenting.com on May 6, 2013. The site crashed a few hours later during the ensuing twitter storm so Phdinparenting.com gave us permission to reprint it here. Old news, new victims? We’ve heard it … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Aggressive Formula Marketing, Main Content | Tagged #strongmomsempower, Abbott, Best for Babes Credo, Boobytraps, C.A.R.E.-WHO Alliance, CARE-WHO, Carly Stasko, kimberly seals allers, Mompaganda, Motherhood Brand, PhDinParenting, Similac, Strong Moms Summit | 2 Comments
Last revised on 05/09/2013

Is Breastfeeding a Legal Right? Civil Right? Or a Social Responsibility?

By Danielle Rigg, JD CLC

“What kind of a society raises its children on food that will shorten their lives?” I dug this quote up one day while looking for examples of other public health crises that have benefited from celebrity leadership. Turns out they were … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Aggressive Formula Marketing, Breaking News, Main Content, Take Action | Tagged Best for Babes Take Action, Booby Traps, Breastfeeding Civil Right, Breastfeeding Human Right, Breastfeeding Social Responsibility, Convention on the Rights of the Child, donor milk, Farm Aid, First Food, Human milk, predatory formula marketing, Rights of the Child, Save the Children Breastfeeding Report, thrive | 47 Comments
Last revised on 04/03/2013

Six-year-old Persuades Principal, School to Join Nestle Boycott

By Jennie Bever

We have boycotted Nestle for years, but wasn’t until this year that my 6 year-old son really paid much attention. The day after listening to my husband and I passionately discuss our displeasure at the Pan American Health Office of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Aggressive Formula Marketing, Breaking Advocacy News, Breaking News, Main Content, Take Action | Tagged #nonestle, BabyMilk Action, IBFAN, NABA, Nestle, Nestle Boycott, Pan American Health Organization, PhDinParenting, predatory marketing, World Health Organization | 13 Comments
Last revised on 12/11/2012

Booby Traps Series: Results from our formula gifts survey! Check out the trends we found in your answers.

By Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC

This is the 60th post in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. Recently we asked you to share your experience with formula “gift bags” on our survey. We thank the over … Continue reading →

Posted in Aggressive Formula Marketing, Blog, Booby Traps, Empower, Main Content, Prepare | Tagged ban the bags, Booby Traps, breastfeeding, formula company gift bags, formula discharge bags, formula marketing, motherhood maternity, obstetricians, pediatricians | 6 Comments
Last revised on 11/05/2012

Will donor milk save or sink breastfeeding?

By Bettina Forbes, CLC

Whenever there is another article about donor milk, I do a happy dance. Last week there was a great article in Time.com about the increasing competition between milk banks and milk sharing organizations for excess milk from producing mothers. In February, a … Continue reading →