A beautiful video where Salma Hayek breastfeeds another baby while her own daughter at 12 months old (back in the U.S.) is still breastfeeding:

This week's zone is the living room and I am soooo glad! That is the ONE room I have been able to keep from getting piles of clutter. I was really good last week getting a ton of laundry done and I got it all the way to my bedroom instead of piling it on the couches to fold. Of course, that means my room didn't get clean last week, but my closet got mostly done. I didn't do anything that was assigned through the weekend snce I wasn't home, and besides, I need a weekend off too! Why is it that married men can work 4-6 days a week and get days at home where they can be completely lazy, but married women (whether working or staying home) have to clean house every spare minute they have and don't get "weekends" or "days off"? I know, I know, God made women to take care of everything... if He left men in charge of cleaning, well, nothing would get clean. I am not trying to bash men. I could NOT do my husbands job - leaving his family every morning to talk to rude people on the phone all day then coming home and trying to relax from the stresses of work while spending a short time with the kids before they have to go to bed. Then trying to stay awake so he has time spent with the wife. Nope, not for me! I definitely am happy to be the SAHM and my husband the working man! I couldn't imagine a life where I had to leave my kids!
Wow, I got off topic there! So I was watching TV, not the news, I think it was Inside Edition? Anyway, there's this mom who was flying with her two young children last year. One of them dropped a sippy cup on the plane and it spilt out, she must have been stressed (it's hard keeping kids quiet on an airplane and traveling with them is hard enough without all the bad looks - "Oh great I get to sit next to them on my flight"), because she started yelling at her kid and then spanked him. She was arrested and charged with a Terrorism Crime under the Patriot Act (overused by airlines). She got three months in prison while her young son and daughter were placed in a foster home out of state. Once she was out she was put on Probation where she can't leave the state and can't see her children. There is actually an adoption pending for her two kids and she is still on probation one year later. I can't believe this! The poor woman! THey didn't say she smacked her kids, she spanked them. While many pediatricians say not to do it, there is no proof paddling the bottom harms a child... weren't we all raised on the paddle? We turned out fine. The only children who grow up to be abusive are the ones who were truly beaten up by their parent as a child. Spanking isn't even used all the time as punishment by those who use it. Just because this woman raised her voice on an airplane, she was tried as a terrorist. This is very sad. 

Wow! I am so disappointed by the way society aims everything at making people so selfish. Formula feeding a baby has become the norm regardless of the fact that your breasts automatically start making baby food when you are pregnant; those who choose not to use their bodies, have to go through engorgment and then higher risk of breast cancer. Now there's this Bebe Bottle Sling. The experts have been saying, "Don't prop up your baby's bottle!". It's not only bad for their teeth to have formula festering in their mouth if they fall asleep with a bottle propped where it won't come out when they fall asleep; but it's also bad parenting - to care so little about showing your baby love that you stick them in a carseat and prop a bottle in their face... they can't smile and coo or even take a breath without milk dripping down their throat and Mommy's back to them. I can somewhat understand a mom with triplets (or more) who need to eat (AND she had a problem with not being able to nurse all 3+ babies for every feeding) and the mom doesn't have extra hands to help feed her hungry crying baby. But to advertise this product to moms of a single baby and their best catch phrase is "it teaches baby how to hold a bottle"... are you kidding me?