North Carolina state representatives have introduced a bill that would “clarify” state law to specifically prohibit the baring of women’s breasts. Women worried about showing too much of their “private area” should use pasties, or perhaps duct tape.

The proposed legislation, House Bill 34, would make it a Class H felony to expose “external organs of sex and of excretion, including the nipple, or any portion of the areola, of the human female breast.”

Read rest of article that may affect public breastfeeding–Huffington Post

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Across all groups, the percentage of mothers who start and continue breastfeeding is rising, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  From 2000 to 2008, mothers who started breastfeeding increased more than 4 percentage points. During that same time, the number of mothers still breastfeeding at six months jumped nearly 10 percentage points, from 35 percent in 2000 to nearly 45 percent in 2008.

Read the rest of the article–CDC online Newsroom

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a warning for parents using a formula thickening product to help feed their baby. It’s report showed seven infants died in 2011 after ingesting SimplyThick formula thickener.

Read rest of article: Digtriad.com

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg just unveiled a health initiative that he hopes will encourage new moms to breastfeed. The plan? Ask hospitals to treat formula like any other regulated substance, keeping it locked up and given out only under certain conditions.

Read rest of article-MSN

An unusual levels of mercury has been found in baby milk powder produced by China’s top dairy producer – Yili Group. After government inspectors discovered the mercury contamination, the company has started recalling its baby formula products for children six months to three years old that was produced from last November to this May.

Read rest of disturbing article: M.I.C Gadget

Durham, N.C. — Breast milk contains antibodies that can help neutralize the HIV virus that causes AIDS, researchers at Duke University Medical Center said Wednesday.

Rest rest of article- WRAL

Listen to this pod cast.  This is G105 morning radio show done on Friday Morning in response to Time magazine’s new cover and the host’s negative take on breastfeeding. 

This was just one of his many opinions that will fire up any advocate for breastfeeding.  There was a lactation consultant that called in to try to dispute him and to help change his opinion.

Here is the link for G105 Contact page for you to voice your opinion towards this nonsense.

Also this is the link for the Time magazine cover and article
Here is the link to email the editor of Time concerning article

Some great articles that advocate breastfeeding that either discuss the article or extended breastfeeding

Six misconceptions about “extended” breastfeeding
Time cover sells out moms to sell magazines
Celebrities Who Breastfed Toddlers (but not on the cover of TIME)