On January 6th 2016, Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker welcomed their son Ace Wells Tucker into the world. Almost 2 weeks old and little Ace is already teaching mommy to multitask. ? Kandi shared this very beautiful photo on social media this Tuesday, of a scrumptious plate, that she is going in on, and a…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Claire Niala for The Natural Child Project I was born and grew up in Kenya & Cote d’Ivoire. Then from the age of fifteen I lived in the UK. However, I always knew that I wanted to raise my children (whenever I had them) at home in Kenya. And yes, I assumed I was…
➠ Continue ReadingMy daughter drinking it up… Recently two breastfeeding stories have gone viral online. A mother was nursing her 16 day old baby at a rec center, and asked by a staff member to leave. The confrontation was caught on camera, and the mom had to invoke her legal right to breastfeeding to get the staff…
➠ Continue ReadingThe physicality of being a woman can be challenging — because our bodies are both sexual and functional, many of our body parts have dual purposes and we are often made to feel ashamed for that. The situation gets even more challenging when a woman is sexually abused, and becomes a mother later on. The…
➠ Continue ReadingI remember my first night as a mother. I nursed my tiny baby to sleep, placed him in his crib, where he began to cry. So I calmed him, waited longer before I put him down, and yet he cried again. Since his crib was already in our room, the transition to the bed was…
➠ Continue ReadingAlright mommies, are you ready for a doozy?! A new study (well, relatively new, it came out a few months ago), has stated that the benefits of breastfeeding have been exaggerated. From Slate Magazine’s coverage; A new study confirms what people like our own Hanna Rosin and Texas A&M professor Joan B. Wolf have been…
➠ Continue ReadingLast month, Ashley Nicole and Yaya DaCosta made headlines for posting pictures of themselves breastfeeding their babies. Below are 30 other black celebrities who have spoken about breastfeeding. 1. Michelle Obama “In fact, in the last job I had before coming to the White House — I remember this clearly — I was on maternity…
➠ Continue ReadingLast month, Ashley Nicole and Yaya DaCosta made headlines for posting pictures of themselves breastfeeding their babies. Below are 30 other black celebrities who have spoken about breastfeeding. 1. Michelle Obama “In fact, in the last job I had before coming to the White House — I remember this clearly — I was on maternity…
➠ Continue ReadingTandem nursing is nursing two babies at the same time, and it’s not a path that I set out on. It began while I was pregnant with my second child. I continued to nurse my baby throughout the entire pregnancy, much to the chagrin of older relatives who felt that I was robbing my unborn…
➠ Continue ReadingThe Out of Africa photo series by Georgia-based Blue Sky photography celebrates black mothers who breastfeed, and the photos are just gorgeous! Click here to view the full photo series.
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