The Hand Mirror

I was so sure it would be the Tuesday.  No particular reason, just a hunch.  Due date was the first or second of September; the midwife s...

One of the things that bugs me most about much of the discussion about feeding babies is the way that it paints breastmilk and formula as mu...

Many thanks to Giarne for this restrained response to an outrageous column in today's Herald. Shelley Bridgeman’s opinion piece in the...

The last six months, since I was somewhat surprisingly elected to the Puketapapa Local Board, have been such a whirlwind that my intended po...

I thought the second time would be easy.  It should be shouldn't it?  After all Wriggly was breastfed to a year and he had a pretty bad ...

Cross posted, because I've just found this nonsense on Stuff too Brendan Black is a new daddy, and he's had an astonishing revelatio...

From the Herald this morning : More than half of New Zealanders are okay with mothers breastfeeding in public, but a minority still prefer b...

THMers recently had a lively debate over a poster aimed at promoting breastfeeding , featuring a mum breastfeeding her toddler in a park. A...

A friend tipped me off to this poster, which promotes World Breastfeeding Week (apologies for the quality of the image). She'd seen it ...

Here's a snippet from a lengthier article on Stuff today : The World Health Organisation recommends exclusive breastfeeding until about...

The below message has come to me via various routes from the Maternity Services Consumer Council : The Okahu Bay (Auckland) Waitangi Day Fes...

Is it feminist to be pleased to be back in an underwire bra after 15 months of soft cup boredom? Wriggly has been slowly but surely losing i...

Lauredhel has a fantastic post at Hoyden About Town on the strange case of Salma Hayek's breastfeeding. Apparently the fact that she ...

I've been avoiding the melamine milk powder disaster. I just can't think too much about the dead babies, the damaged babies, the pa...

Green MP Sue Bradford is without doubt my favourite Member of the current Parliament. She's walked the talk on child discipline, as the...

I'm always a bit nervous writing about this stuff, as I have thin priviledge in spades. However when I heard this interview on Nine to...

I've been meaning to write about this for a while, and Hannah's post about her search for a solution to her childcare problems just...

Breast is best, unless… There are many advantages to breastfeeding. The World Health Organisation so strongly recommends it that in NZ, and ...

According to Business New Zealand, mothers don't need legislation ensuring their employers make provision for them to breastfeed. Phil ...

Hey Me, I know what you’re thinking. You reckon life is going pretty well so why make any big changes? Why halve our household income overni...