Saturday, January 24, 2009

Baby Food from the New Yorker

Though I'm not at this stage in my life yet, I came across a very interesting article in the New Yorker by Jill Lapore about the politics of the breast pump.  It poses quite a question about making workplaces friendly for working mothers (luxurious lactation room?) and asks which is more important, the mother or the milk?  Should a women take 20 minute breaks to express her milk or leave the office an hour earlier to feed her baby formula?  

One of my "adopted mothers" is a childbirth educator, so I tend to send her articles like these that I come across.  This is definitely a topic I consider important, as this will likely impact me eventually too.   

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