This is World Breastfeeding Week, and even though I'm absolutely and totally in favor of breastfeeding, I can see something a little bit funny about this. After all, it isn't an activity anyone can take up just for the week, which makes this unlike Bike to Work Day or Take Your Daughter to Work Day. And for those of us who are already breastfeeding, the "week" part of it also seems funny. For me, this has been a breastfeeding year, not just a week -- although at first the frequency was such that it did feel like I had been nursing for an entire week straight.
Okay, I'm done making weak jokes at the expense of something I actually support. I guess breastfeeding does need good publicity, or at least some people just need to hear that it's a normal thing that normal women do. No big deal, folks. So I want to mention that the Celebrity Baby Blog, one of my favorites, has put up a photo gallery of nursing mothers in support of breastfeeding.
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Bonus unrelated observation:
Today as I was changing Izzy's diaper after lunch I noticed he had something in his mouth. He was rolling it around on his tongue toward the front. I figured it was a piece of food he'd cached for later, or maybe a bit of lint. As I peered down for a closer look, I noticed it was white ... and hard ... and pearlescent ... and as I fished it out of his mouth, I thought, "Oh my God, it's one of his teeth knocked loose!" It did look like a tiny tooth, but after a second or two I realized it was one of the dog's toenails. I clipped them yesterday, and although I thought I had cleaned them all up, I guess I left one on the floor of the family room. Gross, yes, but quite a relief.
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