Around the Web…

Some interesting links for your Monday afternoon:

• A majority of moms give up on breastfeeding after six months — New York Times
• What’s the rudest thing a passerby has said to you while you were pregnant? — lilSugar
• A controversial "baby factory" opens in Poland, offering babies born by surrogates to wannabe-parents for $22,000 per child — Daily Record
• The woman who helped raise Madonna’s son, David Banda, passed away over the weekend — People.com
• There was an upsurge of planned births and weddings in China on the day of the Olympic opening ceremonies, 8/8/08 — MOMformation
• Cool Mom Picks launches its Back-to-School Shopping Guide — Cool Mom Picks

Comments

“The researchers found that children who were most likely to be breast-fed for more than six months typically had mothers with higher levels of education and income.”

Very interesting stuff.

- N.S on August 11th, 2008

As for the breastfeeding, my guess is that that’s because those mothers had money to buy pumps and worked the type of jobs where they could take maternity leave and be able to pump at work. Women working minimum wage job(s) often don’t have those luxuries (although WIC is now offering hand pumps in a newish program).

As far as the pregnant comments article, people say the worst things! I haven’t gotten tooo horrible of comments yet. When I told my mom was pregnant, she suggested I go on a diet! I’m not overweight, btw. And then when I was 10 weeks pregnant my MIL tried to convince me to buy elastic waist banded pants. She even got her SIL to get in on it. “You can’t still be fitting your same clothes!” they said. Well, I was. And a month later, I still am.

I have a friend who is a few weeks from giving birth and she just did a whole blog entry devoted to the crazy things people said to her in ONE night. I think my favorite was “since you haven’t had the baby and aren’t working, what do you do all day? Are you just that lazy?”

- MB on August 11th, 2008

Oh also interesting about the “Olympic babies.” Everything I had heard previously to that said the reason was because of the date, nothing to do with the Olympics. 8 is a lucky # for the Chinese. I didn’t see it as anything diff. from all the people in the US who wanted to get married on 07/07/07.

- MB on August 11th, 2008

Yes, planned weddings and births on 8/8/08 had nothing to do with the Olympics, it’s the number. The opening ceremonies were planned for that date because 8 is a lucky number in Chinese culture.

- L on August 11th, 2008

I’m not surprised most women stop breastfeeding by 6 months, a lot of women are not stay at home moms nowadays and have to go back to working if not a full time job than at least a parttime nowadays. Combine that with working full time, and maybe having 2-3 kids to come home to deal with it. If your a stay at home mom or work from home, it’s easier to breastfeed longer though. Brooke burke said recently after her 4th child she stopped after 2 months because it took a lot of time and she had a lot of other kids to deal with, plus work, etc.

- brooke on August 12th, 2008