Two Million Cribs Recalled
The government has issued a massive recall of drop-side cribs made by Stork Craft. Here's the article and an excerpt: The Consumer Product Safety Commission said late Monday the recall involves 1.2 million cribs in the United States and almost 1 million in Canada, where Stork Craft is based. Sales of the cribs being recalled go back to 1993. Nearly 150,000 of the cribs carry the Fisher-Price logo. The CPSC said it is aware of four infants who suffocated in the drop-side cribs, which have a side that moves up and down to allow parents to lift children from the cribs more easily. The Stork Cr

Nicole Kidman's Favorite Thing About Breastfeeding
I can attest that this one is true. If you've never been, shall we say, well-endowed, then breastfeeding has a nice side benefit: real curves. Nicole Kidman says breastfeeding made her quite curvaceous, and was probably the reason she got a particular part in a new movie. From The New York Daily News: "They're not very big, my boobs, so they just became normal size. I loved it!" she titters in the December/January issue of Ladies' Home Journal.

Breastfeeding and Weight Loss
The NYT has a great piece on breastfeeding and weight loss in tomorrow's Style Section: "...(D)oes breast-feeding actually speed weight loss in postpartum women? It depends. Last year, an epidemiological study of 36,000 Danish women found that the more a mother breast-feeds, the less weight she retains six months after birth. A few factors determined how much she lost: whether a woman was overweight before pregnancy, what she gained while expecting and duration of nursing, said Kathleen M. Rasmussen, an author of the study and a nutrition professor at Cornell. The study’s convinci

Breastfeeding News
Some tidbits from the news: Actress Marley Shelton, of the show Eleventh Hour, talks about breastfeeding to The Celebrity Baby blog. Bravado,the makers of some very comfy breastfeeding bras (I used them), has started a new breastfeeding resource called The Bravado Breastfeeding Information Council. There was a live webcast today of a breastfeeding disc

Breast Milk Contains Stem Cells
Ok, so I'm a little behind the times. This story is from 2008. But a friend just brought it to my attention... An Australian has scientist discovered that breast milk contains stem cells. Here's a bit from the story in Science Alert: “We already know how breast milk provides for the baby’s nutritional needs, but we are only just beginning to understand that it probably performs many other functions,” says Dr Mark Cregan, a molecular biologist at The University of Western Australia. He says that, in essence, a new