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☆ US comedian Arj Barker engulfed in row over mother and baby ejected from show
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —What should a comedian do when a baby cradled in its mother’s arms starts making noises in the middle of a set? American comedian Arj Barker was faced with that awkward situation during a show in Australia on Saturday night at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Barker has repeatedly defended his decision to ask Trish Faranda and her baby, Clara, to leave the event, which specified a minimum age of 15 for attendees. “All I could see was a woman likely holding a baby – the breastfeeding was never part of it. A witness who spoke with Nine News said a few people in the crowd heckled the mother to leave.

Persons: Arj Barker, Barker, Trish Faranda, Clara, ” Barker, ”, –, ” ‘, ’ Faranda, Faranda, “, ” Faranda, 3AW, ” –, I’ve, Ellen Sandell, Sandell, you’re, mums aren’t, It’s Organizations: CNN, Melbourne International Comedy, Athenaeum Theater, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC, Nine, Seven News, Nine News, Facebook, Melbourne, Comedy, Festival Locations: Australia, Melbourne, Australian

☆ Palestinian Baby Delivered After Mother Killed in Israeli Strike
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Liam Stack | More About Liam Stack | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Doctors in Gaza delivered a baby on Sunday from a Palestinian woman who had been killed alongside her husband and daughter in an Israeli strike in the city of Rafah, where more than one million people have fled during Israel’s war in Gaza. The baby was born 10 weeks premature and weighed three pounds, Dr. Salama told Reuters. Instead of a name, doctors wrote “the baby of the martyr Sabreen al-Sakani” on a piece of tape across her chest. “Hopefully after her respiratory distress improves, she will need to be breastfed,” Dr. Salama said. “She has been denied everything — denied her mother, denied her milk.

Persons: Sabreen, Dr, Mohammed Salama, Salama, Rami al, Malak, ” “, Mr, Sheikh, “, —, ” Organizations: Reuters, Al, Emirati Locations: Gaza, Rafah

☆ I've been a military spouse for 17 years, and it's isolating. I've seen the world but lost my identity and delayed my career.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marla Bautista , a 40-year-old military spouse in Tampa, Florida. None of my immediate family or friends had been service members, so becoming a military spouse was all new. I had to give up the prospect of a career for this lifestyleMany military spouses give up their careers to become homemakers. It’s common to hear military spouses say their career starts once their spouse's career ends. AdvertisementIt can be hard not to lose your own identityMy advice for other military spouses is to support yourself, too.

Persons: —, Marla Bautista, I’ve, he’d, We’ve, hasn’t Organizations: Service, Army, Business, Skype Locations: Tampa , Florida, Denver, Chicago, Iraq, Germany, Colorado, Tampa ., Hawaii, Netherlands, France, It's, Tampa

☆ I was told to expect little success breastfeeding my baby with Down syndrome. I'm glad I ignored the advice.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-06 | by ( Emily L. Kendall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The attending neonatologist asked if I planned to breastfeed — I responded affirmatively, to which she said, "Don't expect much." I don't remember how I responded, but I wish I had the temerity to reply, "Well, we won't expect much from you." I'm not alone in being discouraged from breastfeedingMy son is my second baby, and I was determined to have a better outcome breastfeeding him than I did with my first baby. AdvertisementTurns out, I'm not the only one who's been discouraged from breastfeeding after a child's Down-syndrome diagnosis. According to Julia's Way, nearly 30% of mothers of babies with Down syndrome are told their babies may not be able to breastfeed.

Persons: neonatologist, —, I'm, breastfeed, breastfed, I'd Organizations: Service

☆ Why Mothers Feel Touched Out - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Amanda Montei | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

We lived in upstate New York, it was winter, and she had fallen asleep on me during a rare outing. “What kind of mother are you?” the man yelled out his car window. A mother’s body apparently belonged to vague patriarchal laws I couldn’t always identify and therefore needed to be taught, many of which rested on the assumption that a lack of autonomy was simply part of motherhood. Even at home alone with my baby, I felt stuck in the snow with a man pointing at me, moralizing my behavior. Many mothers told me to let it be, to give in.

Persons: impatiently Locations: New York

☆ 3,500-year-old ancient Egyptian mummification balm aroma recreated
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Scientists have decoded an ancient aroma by identifying the ingredients used in Egyptian mummification balms — and resurrected the scent. The exact recipes used in the mummification have long been debated because ancient Egyptian texts don’t name precise ingredients. The new findings suggest that the relatively complex balms used in Senetnay’s preservation may have been the beginning of a trend of more elaborate ones used later on. Dammar resin, an ingredient used in embalming, appears next to a bottle of the recreated ancient scent. “The scent of eternal life” will be part of an ancient Egyptian exhibit at the Danish museum that opens in October.

Persons: ”, Barbara Huber, ” Huber, Pharaoh Amenhotep II, Pharaoh Thutmose III, Amenhotep II, Senetnay, Christian Tepper, Howard Carter, Carter, Pharaoh, Nicole Boivin, Carole Calvez, dammar, it’s, ” Boivin, Dammar, Sofia Collette Ehrich, Huber, Barbara Huber “, “ Organizations: CNN —, Moesgaard Museum, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Max Planck Institute, Geoanthropology Locations: Denmark, Egypt’s Valley, Germany, “, Hannover, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, Saqqara

☆ Opinion | Life After Loss Is Awful. I Need to Believe It’s Also Beautiful.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Sarah Wildman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

When I interviewed the French author Anne Berest some weeks ago I told her I did not have one child, but two; one was gone. “Why are you sorry,” she said, looking directly at me. “But I breastfed her.”I try to reorient myself walking each morning. The adults were loath to turn back to the apartment, basking in company long denied. The light is soft, it is beautiful here, there is a breeze.

Persons: Anne Berest, I’m, ”, Orli, Hana Locations: Paris

REUTERS/Adrees LatifEAGLE PASS, Texas, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The leafy trees on Magali and Hugo Urbina's 350-acre orchard next to the Rio Grande river in Eagle Pass, Texas, should be bursting with pecans this time of year. Migrants for years have forged the river from Mexico to Eagle Pass, part of increasingly higher numbers of people crossing illegally in recent years. He has accused Biden of failing to enforce migration laws and said he has the authority to "defend" Texas' border. Immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility, with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) tasked with securing the border. ENVIRONMENTAL RISKSIn Eagle Pass, sediment falling into the river from the installation of fences and buoys is already altering the water's flow, according to environmentalists.

Persons: Adrees Latif, Hugo Urbina's, Greg Abbott's, Magali, Abbott, Joe Biden, Hugo, breastfed, Biden, Martin Castro, Laiken Jordahl, Daina Beth Solomon, Ted Hesson, Stephen Eisenhammer, Diane Craft Organizations: REUTERS, PASS, Texas, Republican, Star, Democratic, National Guard, Reuters, Watershed, Rio, Customs, Border Protection, of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, Center for Biological Diversity, Thomson Locations: United States, Mexico, Eagle Pass , Texas, U.S, Texas, Rio Grande, Eagle, Venezuelan, States, Mexico City

☆ Italy welcomes baby to parliament for first time
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

ROME, June 7 (Reuters) - A baby took a seat in the Italian parliament for the first time ever on Wednesday, when lawmaker Gilda Sportiello breastfed her son Federico in the Chamber of Deputies, triggering a round of applause from fellow members. The event would be more commonplace in many countries, but was underlined by the acting lower-house speaker in traditionally male-dominated Italy. Best wishes to Federico for a long, free, and peaceful life," said Giorgio Mule as he chaired the parliamentary session. Giorgia Meloni took office in October as Italy's first woman prime minister, but around two-thirds of the country's lawmakers are men. While the event on Wednesday was a first for Italy, 13 years ago Licia Ronzulli, now a senator in the centre-right Forza Italia party, breastfed her daughter in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Persons: Gilda Sportiello breastfed, Federico, Giorgio Mule, Giorgia Meloni, Italy's, Licia, breastfed, Federica Urso, Gavin Jones, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Star, Forza Italia, Thomson Locations: Italy, Strasbourg

☆ How long you breastfeed may impact your child’s test scores later, study shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Whether children were breastfed as infants and for how long may have an impact on their test scores when they are adolescents, according to new research. What the study team found was that there was a modest improvement in test scores associated with being breastfed longer, Pereyra-Elías said. Consequently, the results only show a correlation between breastfeeding and test scores — not causation. The researchers tried to control for many factors that might influence their results, like the mother’s cognitive ability, but they couldn’t account for everything in an observational study, Pereyra-Elías said. The difference this study showed was modest, Pereyra-Elías added, meaning that it does not make a big enough difference on the test scores that it should cause parents worry, Pereyra-Elías said.

Persons: Reneé, Elías, Kevin McConway, McConway, ” McConway, It’s, ”, “, Andrew Whitelaw, Whitelaw Organizations: CNN, Disease, University of Oxford, Open University, University of Bristol Locations: England, United Kingdom

☆ Modern Body Horror Is Turning Breastfeeding Into an Act of Terror
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Kyle Macneill | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Brandon Cronenberg’s body-horror “Infinity Pool” is a movie that leaks. It’s as viscous as it is vicious, fueled by endless fluids: blood, sweat, tears, urine, semen and vomit. Breastfeeding, it turns out, is the most horrifying act of them all. A slew of recent horror movies and series, including “Infinity Pool,” “Barbarian,” “Titane” and “The Baby,” have featured erotic lactation, brutalized nipples and demonic nursing. There’s no fixed formula for creating these scenes, the “Infinity Pool” intimacy coordinator Casey Hudecki explained.

☆ She gave birth, twice, in prison. We were there to witness the reunion with her kids.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Jamie Roth | Alan Chin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

As she left prison, still wearing her prison-issue sweatsuit, the photographer Alan Chin raced to catch the reunion at the San Antonio airport. Alan Chin for InsiderWhat made this reunion even more poignant was that Kelly had been let out once before. Alan Chin for InsiderThere is no reliable count of the number of babies born behind bars each year. Alan Chin for InsiderWhen Kelly returned to prison after her year out, Rick tried to stay in close touch. Alan Chin for Insider"It was just us: me and my kids, and him.

Some 83 percent of babies in the United States start out on breast milk, but by 6 months, just 56 percent are breastfed — and at that stage, only a quarter drink breast milk exclusively, as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends. To find out what it takes to breastfeed a baby, The New York Times followed four mothers for a day as they nursed, pumped and supplemented their milk with formula. Dr. Ma returned to work four weeks after her oldest daughter’s birth and two weeks after her second arrived. While performing long operations, she leaked breast milk under her surgical gown. Now her hours are more reasonable, and she has an office with a door that locks — but Dr. Ma still feels relentless pressure to keep up.

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