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...breast milk is the perfect food for baby's mind and body. Studies show that children who nurse may be healthier and happier and, if they breast-feed for longer than seven months, have a higher IQ. Equally important, many believe, is the intense bond that develops between mother and child...
...nursing, in which mothers breast-feed one another's babies. Both reflect several cultural trends: more U.S. babies--upwards of 70%--are breast-fed than at any time in at least 50 years, more women work outside the home, and more young women undergo breast surgery. Advocates argue that milk sharing lets women be good moms while fulfilling other goals. Says Natalia Chang, 29, who has cross-nursed with her San Jose, Calif., neighbor: Breast milk is "a communal commodity around here...
...everyone is comfortable with this freewheeling baby feeding. Milk banks, which sell bottled breast milk, already make some people squirm; the idea of physically breast-feeding a child not your own evokes even deeper taboos. Rhonda Shaw, a sociologist who studies shared nursing in New Zealand, where the trend is also up, says many confuse "adult meanings of eroticism with breast feeding ... Sometimes people associate a woman breast-feeding another woman's baby with pedophilia." Even the pro-nursing group La Leche League has concerns about milk sharing because, in addition to helpful immunities and antibodies, viruses can be passed...
Though affordable is a relative term when it comes to organic ingredients, the Erbaorganics line, priced from $9.99 for baby shampoo to $19.99 for Milk and Oat Bath for Mom, is significantly less expensive than its higher-end counterpart. And the money donated to the WWO from Erbaorganics will be devoted to the psychological and medical needs of orphans in places like Serbia, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and Ethiopia. "People approach us all the time trying to affiliate their product with our organization," says Aronson, who gave her personal stamp of approval to the brand. "Erbaviva was a great...
...their teachers and everybody was respectful,” Pepper said. Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) stepped in as well, feeding the students an impromptu lunch from food stored its kitchens. “Our Dining Services is amazing, they got out popcorn chicken and tater tots and milk and juice and apples and brownies for all the kids that were here,” Pepper said. HUDS Director for Marketing and Communications Crista Martin said that while HUDS does not have a formal policy to address such situations, it does “all kinds of things...