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Written on March 7th, 2010 in Politics, Spawn by lara
Inigo just pointed to a shape, and quite clearly said “parallelogram”.
Those of you that know Mark well will know that he has taken a personal mission to stop teaching young children that a parallelogram is a “diamond”. He has even gone so far as to take the letraset machine to some of Inigo’s baby books. And I can’t really talk, because I have re-labeled baby bottles from “milk” to “artificial baby milk”.
Written on February 28th, 2010 in Politics, The Life of Lara by lara
A new ad featuring Pamela Anderson dressed in a gold bikini, rubbing herself against another woman in an office environment, and being splashed with a white liquid has been taken off air. Crazy Domains (the company being advertised) managing director Gavin Collins said the ad was “tongue in cheek” and blamed feminist bloggers for stirring up complaints.
Because of course, it’s UN-AUSTRALIAN to complain about women being objectified.
SMH article here. Can’t wait to read the Hoyden on this one!
Written on February 27th, 2010 in Boobs!, Politics, The Life of Lara by lara
Link here.
It is common for women to believe that there will be a problem with their milk after a natural disaster, that the stress, or lack of adequate nutrition will make their milk “bad” or somehow unsuitable for their babies. In fact, the human body will provide milk for an infant even when the mother is malnourished.
And with the influx of foreign aid comes powdered infant formula (PIF, sometimes referred to as artificial baby milk or ABM), with the inference that this is better for the baby than what the mother is already providing.
And in a disaster, where there is a lack of clean water, giving a mother powdered infant formula often means she has to make it up with dirty water, leading not only to introducing infections to the infant, but by depriving her of breastmilk, she is also deprived of a natural defence against life threatening diseases.
In normal circumstances, breastfeeding needs to be protected. In a disaster, it is vital.
Written on December 16th, 2009 in Animals, Politics, The Life of Lara by lara
So the plan was to eat some cow. But I’ve stalled, due to the lack of a dining companion, and a restaurant that is open on a day when I have no child.
Mumu is Crows Nest used to be open on a Tuesday, I’m sure, but when I went there yesterday they were closed. Fe couldn’t make it, but promises to be with me next week. But now I can’t find a restaurant that sells grass/pasture fed beef and is open on a Tuesday.
Here is an article from the SMH about the differences in producing different bits of cow. In case anyone is interested in why I insist on grass fed cow.
Written on December 16th, 2009 in Knitting, Politics, The Life of Lara, Useful Things I did Today by lara
Apparently, the Government White Paper on airline safety has been released, and apparently they have listened to the radical crazies like me that sent submissions supporting allowing knitting needles on planes.
What’s next? Making beating children illegal?
Written on December 14th, 2009 in Politics, Spawn by lara
Article from Babycenter here. It is really great that the mainstream media is tackling this issue. According to a book I read (Nurture Shock), it’s not enough to expose your kids to people from different races, you have to talk to them about it. Kids in mixed race schools who haven’t had the conversation with their parents are more likely to join social groups comprised of kids of their own race, and will reinforce racial stereotypes and divides.
But if you talk to your kids about race, about how we are all the same, despite differences of skin colour and cultural practices. Stupidly, I thought that Inigo wouldn’t have the opportunity to grow up racist if he is surrounded by kids of many different ethnicities.
I suppose it’s not just one conversation, and we’ve got all that to look forward too.
Written on December 10th, 2009 in Boobs!, Politics, Spawn by lara
The ABA has just released a new information leaflet about alcohol and breastmilk. Contrary to most of the information that is available to mothers (and often funded by formula companies that want to scare women into artificial feeding), this leaflet acknowledges that Australian women do like a drink, and gives guidelines for how to do it without harming your baby. For example, if you are a 75 Kg woman (I wish!), it takes 3hrs and 16 mins for two standard drinks to leave your bloodstream.
Not that I would ever encourage a woman to drink and feed – but you’re often better off doing that than drinking and giving artificail milk, and this information has been hidden for so long, this publication is a bit of a victory for common sense.
Cheers!*
*That is a virtual cheers from me – self imposed booze ban will be lifted over Christmas and New Year. Then we’ll check in with the liver and see how it’s coping!
Written on October 21st, 2009 in Politics, Spawn, The Life of Lara by lara
Article here.
Apparently, living with constant psychological stress makes kids perform worse at school. Who knew?
Written on October 7th, 2009 in Boobs!, Green Politics, Politics, Spawn, The Life of Lara by lara
From Hoyden About Town. Which, incidentally, everyone should read.
It makes you smarter.
Or does that only work on me?
Written on October 2nd, 2009 in Boobs!, Politics, Spawn, The Life of Lara by lara
There’s been a bit of hoo ha on the internets recently about Nestle, (see here and here for some background), and I was reminded of something I saw in an Indonesian supermarket.

Yup – chocolate milk, marketed for infants, with a free sippy cup.
Written on August 24th, 2009 in Politics by lara
Before friday, please click hereto send a submission to the senate about your support of same sex marriage.
Marriage is about the strength of your love, not your partner’s gender!
Written on August 10th, 2009 in Boobs!, Politics, The Life of Lara by lara
The government has commissioned a research company to do research on a national breastfeeding strategy. Now is your chance to have your say. The survey closes on the 14th, so you don’t have much time!
If you can’t be bothered reading the link – email the answers to the following questions to nbs@allenconsult.com.au
- Do you think that support and the promotion of breastfeeding should be provided consistently to all mothers and women across Australia?
- In your experience, did promotion of breastfeeding while you (or your partner) was pregnant encourage starting and/or continuing breastfeeding? What things seemed to help the most? Why?
- Do you think that there is enough breastfeeding support provided to new mothers?
- Have you or your partner ever sought or been referred to a breastfeeding support service or lactation consultant? What sort of service? Did it make a difference in you/your partner’s ability to continue breastfeeding?
- How do you think breastfeeding promotion and / or support could be better provided?
- Do you think that information such as the rates of breastfeeding (number of babies breastfed as a percentage of the total population of babies of particular ages) and other similar information should be collected on a national level?
Written on June 23rd, 2009 in Green Politics, Politics, Spawn by lara
Written on May 25th, 2009 in Politics, The Life of Lara by lara

I needed that….
Thanks Post Secret.
Written on May 5th, 2009 in Politics, Spawn, The Life of Lara by lara

From the Calgary Herald.
Thanks to Linda for the link!
Written on May 2nd, 2009 in Politics, The Life of Lara by lara
Written on April 22nd, 2009 in Politics by lara
Yes – unless you try to DIY without a doctor.
Written on April 22nd, 2009 in Politics, The Life of Lara by lara
Written on April 15th, 2009 in Politics, Spawn, The Life of Lara by lara
Unfortunately, it was just an April Fools stunt – but it pissed some people off!
Written on April 14th, 2009 in Politics, Spawn, The Life of Lara by lara
Since Inigo has been sick, he hasn’t wanted to sleep in his cot. For the first few nights, he refused to sleep at all unless his head was on my right shoulder (the bad one), and any movement on my behalf was punishable by 30 minutes of tortured screaming.
On Saturday night, we stayed at Pearl Beach, and because I was enjoying a chat with Adam and Sarah, I stayed up later than Mark and Inigo.
This is what I found when I went to bed -

And no, the flash didn’t wake them up!