Photos Wanted for World Breastfeeding Week

Mishawn Purnell-O'Neal and Breastfeeding America are seeking photos of African-American women breastfeeding to create a poster and prints in honor of World Breastfeeding Week. World Breastfeeding Week is August 1-7 and this year's theme is Breastfeeding: A Vital Emergency Response.

If you have pictures of yourself nursing that you'd like to submit, please send them to me. Photos should be high resolution images that are at least 300dpi. For commercial printing, it's important to have a high resolution image to make sure that the poster is sharp and crisp.
Digital cameras that can take photos about 3 mega pixels should be more than adequate to provide a high resolution image. Also, when taking photos cameras should be set to the highest resolution.

If your picture is chosen, it will become the property of Breastfeeding America and may be used for commercial purposes, although these would be respectful of you, your baby and breastfeeding in general. The woman whose photo is selected will also receive a copy of the poster! Get those entries in now!



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Join August's Carnival of Breastfeeding

For August's Carnival of Breastfeeding, we'll be piggy backing on La Leche League's World Breastfeeding Week theme: Prepared for Life. If you'd like to join the August Carnival, please send your submissions by July 27th. The Carnival will go live August 3rd, during World Breastfeeding Week. As always, we are looking for posts that are:

- Well-written and grammatically correct
- Thoughtful and on point for the carnival theme
- Submitted by blogs that are of interest to our readers (breastfeeding, parenting, etc.)

If your post is selected for inclusion, you will be asked on the day of the carnival to edit your post to link back to each of the other participants in the carnival. Examples of past carnivals can be found here.

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Candace Parker is breastfeeding!

Candace Parker of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks gave birth to a baby girl named Lailaa on May 13th. She returned to the court on Sunday to play her first game since giving birth two months ago. Prior to the game, Candace sat in the locker room and pumped breast milk for her daughter.

Candace says her goal is to breastfeed her daughter for 6 months, most of which she'll be traveling and playing basketball and pumping in between practice and games. Her doctor doesn't think she'll be able to pull it off based on her schedule, but she's determined.

"I can honestly say I would do anything for her," Candace is quoted as saying. "I'm trying to show her she can do whatever she wants by doing this. I'm working hard. I know now I'm her biggest role model."


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Friday 5

Wow, what a busy week! Here some feel-good stories about breastfeeding I've encountered the past few days.

Glamourmom is donating 200 nursing bra tanks to an NYC non-profit in honor of Breastfeeding Awareness Month.

A children's hospital has donated a breast pump to a zoo so that an elephant can be sure to get his mother's milk.

A woman whose twins benefited from donor breast milk is now the Executive Director of a milk bank in Austin.

David Sedaris? Still obsessed with breast milk.....but getting over it.

Mother & Baby, a British parenting magazine, will feature a nursing mother on the August cover. A first for the magazine and the UK!



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New Review Blog!

I have started a separate review/giveaway blog for all of the wonderful products that people send to me that I get to try out and offer to my readers as prizes. Whenever I am hosting a review/giveaway, I'll post a teaser on Blacktating, but you'll need to head over to Blacktating Reviews to actually read the review and enter the giveaway.

Since I'll be hosting a second blog anyway, I may start reviewing & giving away stuff that is not necessarily related to breastfeeding, but is compatible with my parenting philosophies. That means the products will support an attachment, gentle and natural parenting lifestyle or just be fun stuff for moms, dads and kids. I get a lot of offers to host giveaways and I've turned a lot of stuff down in the past because it wasn't related to breastfeeding and I didn't want to hurt the integrity of this blog. But I think having a separate review blog will allow me to focus on my main passion and still offer the occasional cool prize. I hope you enjoy Blacktating Reviews!


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Giveaway at Motherwear: Spanish for Breastfeeding Support

Head on over to the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog and enter to win a copy of Tanya Lieberman's new book, Spanish for Breastfeeding Support. The book was written for anyone who works in breastfeeding support and Lactation Consultants can earn over 12 CERPs for completing the exercises in the book.

If you don't win a copy, you can purchase the book through Hale Publishing, or through Amazon.


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Bravado! Nursing Bras Coupon Code

Bravado! Designs is offering 25% off your purchase through July 7th in honor of Independence Day. Use code JLW-169 at check out!


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