There once was a time when all food was organic and no pesticides were used. Health problems were treated with folk wisdom and natural remedies. There was no obesity, and people got lots of exercise. And in that time gone by, the average lifespan was … 35! That’s right. For most of human existence, according […]
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Existential breastfeeding questions
Lactivists, help me out here. I have some existential questions about breastfeeding. If breastfeeding is everything you say it is, why do we need blogs, websites, professionals and lobbying organizations touting its awesomeness? [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]If you told me I needed to eat chocolate, I wouldn’t need to be deprived of […]
Just because you’re a “shit mom” for not breastfeeding doesn’t mean she’s judging you!
There are few things more fascinating that watching a Sanctimommy struggle to justify her sanctimony. Yesterday I created a meme to explain to lactivists why their comments to women who formula feed are so very hurtful and posted it on Facebook. Lactivists, Would you tell a woman struggling with infertility that it was easy for […]
What if Jamie Oliver had said pregnancy is easy and convenient?
Lactivists have rushed to Jamie Oliver’s defense. As I wrote on Friday, in his efforts to promote it Oliver ignited a firestorm by claiming that breastfeeding is easy and convenient. Charlotte Gill, writing in the Independent, is typical of Oliver’s defenders. The title of her piece Jamie Oliver was right to comment on breastfeeding – […]
Jamie Oliver and lactivists who lie
See what happens when you let men out of the kitchen where they belong? They start pontificating about subjects that they know nothing about and making fools of themselves in the process. Take celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, for example. Oliver, whose US school lunch program designed to decrease obesity was a total failure because kids […]
Why is Kristin Cavallari feeding her baby milk from an animal that eats garbage?
I’m currently reading a fascinating book, The Fever of 1721, about the first time that inoculation against smallpox was used in Colonial America. The man who proposed inoculation was the Reverand Cotton Mather, of Salem Witch Trial fame. He had read about it in the Proceedings of the Royal Society and one of his sons […]
Why didn’t my baby’s head fit?
Did you have a C-section for “failure to progress”? It may have happened because the baby’s head did not fit through your pelvis, a condition known as cephalo-pelvic dysproportion (CPD). CPD is far more common in humans than any other primates, because there are competing evolutionary pressures that have acted on the two most important […]
The simple reason why breastfeeding is NEVER a substitute for vaccination
I’m going to lead this piece with the “money quote” so if you read nothing else you’ll read this: Breastfeeding can NEVER be a substitute for vaccination for a very simple reason: maternal antibodies to vaccine preventable diseases CAN’T be passed via breastmilk. Why? [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]Maternal antibodies to vaccine preventable […]
Watch a mother nearly kill a baby at home waterbirth
Waterbirth is both unnatural and potentially deadly. You can easily see why in this video where a baby remains underwater for nearly FOUR MINUTES and easily could have inhaled the water in the birth pool. I have no idea why this baby was allowed to remain submerged for so long. [youtube https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=O3ysogVwU7g] It is […]
Is neonatal tongue-tie surgery the new tonsillectomy?
A New Zealand pediatrician is questioning the growing popularity of neonatal surgery for tongue-tie. Dr. Pamela Douglas believes Deep cuts under babies’ tongues are unlikely to solve breastfeeding problems: [pullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]Babies are being cut on the theory that breastfeeding is always perfect and, therefore, it is babies who are “broken.”[/pullquote] When […]
Amy Tuteur, MD
Dr. Amy Tuteur is an obstetrician gynecologist. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1979 and her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1984. Dr. Tuteur is a former clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. She left the practice of medicine to raise her four children. Her book, Push Back: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting (HarperCollins) was published in 2016. She can be reached at DrAmy5 at aol dot com... More
