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Book Review: Passionate Journey: My Unexpected Life

Read more about Marian Tompson, a fascinating woman who founded La Leche League and had 5 natural births!
Showing 3 posts tagged women

Read more about Marian Tompson, a fascinating woman who founded La Leche League and had 5 natural births!
With growing poverty rates and political attacks on already inadequate family-planning funding threatening to drive the number of unintended pregnancies among poor women even higher, and little effort being made to address the pressures driving other women away from having kids, it’s easy to imagine how these forces could push professionals and poor women further apart. Still, in their own ways, both are struggling with the same problem: an untenable “choice” between children and financial solvency.

While the U.S. still has a long way to go to make employment breastfeeding-friendly for all babes, there has been some great progress recently, and more women are getting into the working and pumping groove.