Suzanne Barston, subject of the popular web series, “A Parent Is Born,” found that, despite every effort, she couldn’t breastfeed her son, Leo. This difficult encounter with nursing—combined with the overwhelming public attitude that breast is not only best, it is the yardstick by which parenting prowess is measured—drove Barston to explore the silenced, minority position that breastfeeding is not always the right choice for every mother and every child.
Part memoir, part popular science, and part social commentary, Bottled Up probes breastfeeding politics through the lens of Barston’s own experiences as well as those of the women she has met through her popular blog, the Fearless Formula Feeder. In the latest installment of the UC Press Podcast, Barston talks with Chris Gondek about whether breastfeeding should remain the holy grail of good parenthood.
[podcast]https://www.ucpress.edu/content/podcasts/11903.mp3[/podcast]
