{"id":44892,"date":"2014-09-03T13:43:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T19:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/work-is-what-a-bodys-obliged-to-do.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:44:18","slug":"work-is-what-a-bodys-obliged-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/work-is-what-a-bodys-obliged-to-do.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Work is what a body&#39;s obliged to do&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, breastfeeding is a good thing. We should encourage women to do it <i>when possible and practical and when it works for them.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Laying societal pressure on women that they are a failure as a woman and a mother for not managing to breastfeed, for whatever reason, is <i>not<\/i> a good thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2014\/08\/18\/_super_parent_study_the_pressure_to_do_everything_just_right_exacerbates.html?wpisrc=obinsite'><br \/>\n<img style='display:block;' src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/TKyRQS2Oj1H8Cu7y68PTf1_iYi8bX-i43uNtYkBCZflLcpcDCAj02o9awlHTIb8Tf1n0ITzwu2wuPXgNY3zNrtPeF7LBsdTkMqU1DVl_czsRei0rDycGeefUI88KtsFhFSz2eE4sYE2-c-GEMT8BuaZl9OX8gTPzIaEsK8Dd9KeDvsadaqKMgxrE3SgCADrC6X2ulnFA-XdpCOsJW3nMy84uBJ2d23EWRreOD3X6FfnoRpDjm1hWyyQ9iIijFD6W0rvioJFO5oKt-WjtI__4xtOQKt8QTdcBymjkIS25MgroxEgoLLpLpTT6Eqmc6OcXtBLGdMixiL6PosXe_9u-tMsw4dThiOOahTiTjpcPJ7lADvA=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\nThe Pressure to Breast-Feed Is Hurting New Moms With Postpartum Depression<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nNo one knows exactly what causes prenatal and postpartum depression. It&rsquo;s a complicated dance of hormones, predisposition to depression, and other factors. A new study, presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association this week, explores the cultural pressures that new moms face&mdash;also dads, but I&rsquo;m going&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/McXTpSQBeuB'>View on Google+<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, breastfeeding is a good thing. We should encourage women to do it when possible and practical and when it works for them. Laying societal pressure on women that they are a failure as a woman and a mother for not managing to breastfeed, for whatever reason, is not a good thing. The Pressure to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/work-is-what-a-bodys-obliged-to-do.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Work is what a body&#39;s obliged to do&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8478,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/02\/the_scientific.html","url_meta":{"origin":44892,"position":0},"title":"The Scientific Bust","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Nov-05 2:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Scientists study the physics of breasts to design better bras. 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