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Traditional African Nutrition and Breastfeeding
Throughout the month of February, we will be highlighting little-known facts, inspiring histories and creative advice related to black women breastfeeding. If you are interested in contributing to this...
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Feeding Our Own Babies: Breastfeeding on the Plantation
Throughout the month of February, we will be highlighting little-known facts, inspiring histories and creative advice related to black women breastfeeding. If you are interested in contributing to this...
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Answering the Call: Black Surgeon Generals All Promote Breastfeeding
Surgeon General Dr. Regina M. Benjamin Reflecting on Black History Month, we have a tendency to hear stories about the Rosa Parks, Mahalia Jackson, Jackie Robinson-type icons who broke through color...
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Camille & Georgi
Hi! My name is camille and attached is a pic of my baby georgi and I last summer @ 17 months. She is now 27 months and we are still breastfeeding! People often seem disturbed but neither of us is...
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Formula: How did we get hooked anyway?
Fellow breastfeeding enthusiasts, have you ever wondered how African-Americans came to be hooked on the breast-milk substitute (read: formula) anyway? In 2010, the Blacktating blog introduced us to...
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Cameroon Link: Songs about Breastfeeding
Often, I find myself singing the “milks” song to my daugther. It’s pretty simple: “milks, milks, Himi loves milks.” I was singing this in the dark when I thought about the mothers all over who were...
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Make history: protect pumping at work
I am an outraged ally of Donnicia Venters. If you haven’t already heard about this, she is the woman who was fired from her job in 2009 in direct response to requesting a place to pump breast milk for...
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Harlem Hospital hearts Breastfeeding
In 2008, Harlem Hospital became the first hospital in New York City to gain the special ‘Baby Friendly’ recognition for promoting breastfeeding among it’s mothers–mostly who are African-American and...
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Adding Breastfeeding Back into our Family History and Black History
Let me set the scene for this conversation that happened about 4 years ago or so. At the time I was about 22, engaged, and working on a master’s degree in public health in New Orleans. I was...
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Reports say Black women don’t breastfeed…
We’re excited to wrap up our Black History Month series on breastfeeding with this post from Darcel at The Mahogany Way Cafe. Roll Call! You can check out previous posts here. I am so happy to share...
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