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Get Yer Boob On!!


God I love Austin.  Check this out Mamas.  Austin is coming together to celebrate World Breastfeeding Day in a super cool way this year.  I plan to participate and hope you’ll join me!

WHO:  You, your family, your partner — anyone else who supports breastfeeding

WHAT: Choreographed Flash Mob — (“a large group of people who gather in a predetermined location, perform some brief action, and then quickly disperse”) to promote breastfeeding in public

WHERE:

  • All rehearsals will take place at Galaxy Dance Studios, 1700 South Lamar Blvd, Ste 338.  Final mandatory rehearsal is on the day of the Flash Mob, August 1st, at 11:00 a.m.  Location TBD.
  • The actual “Keep Austin Breastfeeding” Flash Mob Event will take place in front of Barton Springs Pool, August 1, 1:00 pm

WHEN:  Participants asked to join at least one rehearsal, preferably two.   Remaining dates:

Sunday, July 18, 3:00 – 4:00 pm; Thursday, July 29, 7:00 – 8:00 pm; and Saturday, July 31, 10:00 – 11:00 am

Yay! Yay! Yay! to Sponsors: Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, Special Addition and Galaxy Dance School. You rock!

Questions?

Gail Gresham: ggresham@hotmail.com, Lauren Reyes, laurenreyes@gmail.com


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Breastfeeding in Public? Bravo!


I LOVE seeing pictures like this of celebrities out and about unabashedly nursing their babies. Yea Maggie Gyllenhall!  Ironic that she played a character that made fun of Attachment Parenting in Away We Go, isn’t it?

We need to see more of this from all mothers — and especially mothers like Maggie who have social influence.  This photo is a few years old — I’d love to find another more recent of any other celebrity.

I recently learned about a fellow mama in Austin who stopped to nurse at a HEB grocery store in Round Rock and was asked by one of the managers to please use the bathroom.

Many breastfeeding advocate mothers including myself were quick to come to her defense offering to write letters, join a “nurse-in,” and boycott HEB until they make a public announcement declaring a store policy that supports and welcomes breastfeeding mothers.

I don’t know the laws in other states or countries.  But in Texas — believe it or not — women have the right to breastfeed their babies ANYWHERE they are legally allowed to be.  Amen to that.

Texas.  The state with the so-far-right board of education that recently voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from world history standards because he favored the separation of church and state. They opted to replace him with the study of religious icons, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone.  They also voted to draw attention to the negative, unintended consequences of Affirmative Action and Title IX.  Alarming for Texas and beyond with Texas being one of the largest buyers of text books in the country. You can read more about this in the recent Times article.

But I digress.  Back to boobs in public.  Texas stands by it legally.  Yee-Haw! (more…)

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