When I was in seventh grade, my friend Lisa and I were Candy Stripers at North Side Hospital in Youngstown, the same hospital where I was born. In 1971, being a candy striper was what pre-teen girls did in the pre-Title IX era. We didn’t have sports, and we didn’t have a lot of after-school […]
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La Leche: French for ‘It’s Not for Everybody’
This is a story about La Leche League, but don’t expect it to be all “go breast-feeders” or preachy at all about the benefits of breast-feeding. You would have to off-the-charts postpartum to argue that breast-feeding is not good for a baby. But it’s a complicated decision at a time when people should not […]