{"id":664,"date":"2006-11-10T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2006-11-10T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T12:22:00","slug":"international-icon-for-breastfeeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/10\/international-icon-for-breastfeeding\/","title":{"rendered":"International icon for breastfeeding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of Google traffic looking for pictures of nursing mothers. I&#8217;m never sure exactly what it is they&#8217;re looking for, but I&#8217;m betting this isn&#8217;t it!<\/p>\n<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mothering.com\/sections\/iconcontest\/icon-contest.html\">Mothering.com <\/a>held a contest recently to solicit designs for an internationally-recognizable icon to represent breastfeeding. They said, &#8220;The image of a baby bottle on an airport sign announcing the location of a &#8220;parents lounge&#8221; infuriated us and got us thinking: Isn&#8217;t there an international symbol for breastfeeding?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The results of their contest are clever (check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mothering.com\/sections\/iconcontest\/icon-finalists.html\">finalists here<\/a>), but I find these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mothering.com\/sections\/iconcontest\/icon-smile.html\">also-rans <\/a>(click through for more) particularly funny:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/5660\/1303\/1600\/bficon3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/5660\/1303\/200\/bficon3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/5660\/1303\/1600\/bficon2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/5660\/1303\/200\/bficon2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/5660\/1303\/1600\/bficon1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/5660\/1303\/200\/bficon1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here in Canada, or at least in Ottawa, there is a commonly-recognized symbol of a baby that indicates nursing stations, baby-change rooms and whatnot. Are they not common everywhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of Google traffic looking for pictures of nursing mothers. I&#8217;m never sure exactly what it is they&#8217;re looking for, but I&#8217;m betting this isn&#8217;t it! The folks at Mothering.com held a contest recently to solicit designs for an internationally-recognizable icon to represent breastfeeding. They said, &#8220;The image of a baby bottle &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/10\/international-icon-for-breastfeeding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International icon for breastfeeding?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}