The Big Let Down - Kimberly Seals Allers Discusses Breastfeeding!

Denise Bolds, MSW, CD(DONA)

Please join Denise Bolds producer/host, certified birth doula - Bold Doula and her special co-host Kimberly Seals Allers as the discussion of breastfeeding and Kimberly's new book goes deep! In the introduction to THE BIG LETDOWN: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding (St. Martin’s Press; Jan 24, 2017), advocate and journalist Kimberly Seals Allers asserts, “Breastfeeding shows us all the ways, as women, that we have been imagined, constructed, created, and controlled by economics, science, the media, and other so-called authoritative sources.” The breastfeeding narrative, both historical and present-day, is a cautionary tale about the maternal body, good or bad mothers, and how women’s bodies are measured, assessed, and subjected. It’s one of the most divisive issues in the “mommy wars,” and everyone seems to have an opinion about what is best. Allers’s goal in writing THE BIG LETDOWN is to educate women on the forces at work manipulating their decisions about breastfeeding so they can make a clear-eyed decision for their family. Allers also pushes for more structural support for breastfeeding mothers, and she is already at work trying to make change in communities. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation recently awarded a three-year, $425,000 grant to fund a program conceived and designed by Allers to create more breastfeeding-supportive community environments. To reach Denise Bolds: [e-mail] 845-797-4177 www.BoldDoula.com To reach Kimberly Seals Allers: Jessica Lawrence at [e-mail] or 646-307-5569