i know, i'm a day late. but i have a good excuse. i spent new year's day hugging the commode. and now my lower back and abdomen are really sore and achy, but other than that i feel wonderful, by comparison. i hope this nasty bug has rampaged our family enough; we really can't afford for josh to get sick and miss any work! the kids and i are dying for some fresh air, so since it's been 24 hours since i last puked, we're going to venture out to the playground with some friends this afternoon.
two of my la leche league friends were featured in a news piece on CBS last night, about the protest against facebook deleting pictures of mothers nursing their babies. you can check it out here: http://cbs11tv. com/fuel- for-thought/ breastfeeding. Facebook. online.2. 898682.html . it infuriates me that an obscenity policy designed to protect facebook users, many of them children, from illicit content would be applied to a photo of a woman nursing a child. what's even more upsetting is the fact that the deletion of these nursing pictures was a response by facebook to complaints from users, so they say. that means that people saw the nursing pictures on others' profiles and were offended. i can't imagine what is going through these people's heads. "ew, gross, breastfeeding... i don't want my kids seeing this." what is the matter with these people?! i hope they also demanded that facebook delete the hundreds of pictures of half-naked teenagers and underaged smoking and drinking. there is something seriously wrong with our culture when a photo of a mother nursing her baby is viewed as obscene and offensive. i hope 2009 brings with it some sort of miraculous paradigm shift that will allow breastfeeding to return to the cultural norm, the standard to which all other forms of infant feeding are compared.
okay, i'll step off of the soapbox. for now...
rowan is the sweetest, most playful, affectionate, adorable 1-year-old i have ever met. he is such a tremendous joy to be around. his beautiful, little smile makes my heart melt.
two of my la leche league friends were featured in a news piece on CBS last night, about the protest against facebook deleting pictures of mothers nursing their babies. you can check it out here: http://cbs11tv. com/fuel- for-thought/ breastfeeding. Facebook. online.2. 898682.html . it infuriates me that an obscenity policy designed to protect facebook users, many of them children, from illicit content would be applied to a photo of a woman nursing a child. what's even more upsetting is the fact that the deletion of these nursing pictures was a response by facebook to complaints from users, so they say. that means that people saw the nursing pictures on others' profiles and were offended. i can't imagine what is going through these people's heads. "ew, gross, breastfeeding... i don't want my kids seeing this." what is the matter with these people?! i hope they also demanded that facebook delete the hundreds of pictures of half-naked teenagers and underaged smoking and drinking. there is something seriously wrong with our culture when a photo of a mother nursing her baby is viewed as obscene and offensive. i hope 2009 brings with it some sort of miraculous paradigm shift that will allow breastfeeding to return to the cultural norm, the standard to which all other forms of infant feeding are compared.
okay, i'll step off of the soapbox. for now...
rowan is the sweetest, most playful, affectionate, adorable 1-year-old i have ever met. he is such a tremendous joy to be around. his beautiful, little smile makes my heart melt.
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