1.  Scary Stuff

My friend Adrienne Griffin pointed out to me a recent article in the Atlantic called "The Case Against Breastfeeding".  I think the title goes a little far, as breastfeeding is of course just fine.  The title should have read "The Case Against Acting Like Breastfeeding Is the Only Way to Be a Good Mom."  Author Hannah Rosin compares the medical literature on breastfeeding with the pop culture view on breastfeeding and finds out how much the

Wake up, women. Wake up people who work to prevent child abuse, people who work to prevent suicide, people who work to prevent preterm births, people who care about healthy families. Wake up, people who care about motherhood. Wake up, women of America. Wake up psychiatric professionals, nurses, OB/GYNS, pediatricians. Here's an actual text of a communication being sent far and wide by the very loud and vociferous opposition to the Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act to support increased funding, education and research for postpartum depression (the underlining is mine):

ABC Television contacted Postpartum Support International several weeks ago to say they were doing a story about postpartum depression on an episode of "Private Practice" and wanted to do a public service announcement (PSA) with information about the illness.  I was aware of this project, because as the PR board chair for PSI, I had to write the PSA copy.  I was told a message about the PSA would appear at the end of the episode (which aired last night) and would direct people to the ABC website to watch it.  ABC wouldn't tell PSI any more about the episode.