Posts Tagged ‘newborns’
Bizarre BreastFeeding Contraption #2: The Breastfeeding Curtain
Want to be able to breast-feed in public, but not down with the boob flashing? Hundreds of inventors have patented devices to help limit public displays of mommy’s food-source. Many: weird.
Bizarre Breastfeeding Contraption: The Breastfeeding Curtain
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Public Breast-Feeding: What the Nursing Bib Means for the Right to Bare Breasts
Nothing to see here: Laseinde wants newborns to suck and cover.
Ella Laseinde is accustomed to seeing strangers’ breasts. “I’m a mammographer, so I’m with the breasts constantly,” says Laseinde, 71, who spent 30 years in government service—including five at the National Institutes of Health screening women’s chests. That’s not to say she’s interested in catching sight of stray bosoms outside the office. “I think in today’s time, they need to cover,” Laseinde says of nursing mothers. “There are so many people walking around who can catch a look.”
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Mommy, Was I A “Reborn” Baby?
While conducting my extensive research for this morning’s Morning After on the “Reborn” baby doll phenomenon, I came across this startling photograph. This Reborn, though dubbed “Masey,” closely resembles the way I appeared as a newborn child and, in fact, continue to vaguely resemble to this day.
My God, I thought, peering into this window to what could very well be my own baby soul. Could this baby be branded a “Reborn” because it was, in fact, born already, on a summer’s day in 1985? Who is to say who is Reborn and who is simply born?
Behold, my true baby self:
The Morning After: “Reborn” Babies Edition
Right: Baby “Suri,” because of course the Reborn movement has some sort of weird overlap with the Scientologists.
“Reborn” baby dolls! According to several reports from the mainstream media, real women have taken to carting around these not-really-real-yet-frighteningly realistic human baby dolls in order to fill the aching void left by their own lack of children/poor mothering jobs/dementia. It’s true, confirms “Linda,” a mother to Reborn babies but no real children:
