Things We’ve Read: Week of Aug. 12th, 2013

• The Very Public Post-Baby Body Reveal, Explored  by Charlotte Cowles, New York Magazine
• How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby? by Jean Twenge, The Atlantic
• Companion articles Take Back Your Pregnancy by Professor Emily Oster, Wallstreet Journal, and New York Magazine’s follow-up Q&A: The Woman Who Is Rewriting the Rules of Pregnancy by Erica Schwiegershausen. Emily Oster is the author of Expecting Better: Why the Convetional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What you Really Need to Know
• A Year of Breast-feeding by Sophie Egan, New York Times
• In God’s Name, or Baby ‘Messiah,’ Competing Claims of Religious Freedom by Mark Oppenheimer, New York Times
• The Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In by Judith Warner, New York Times. And The Real Lesson of the Opt-Out Generation by Ann Friedman, New York Magazine

And, in celebration of Breastfeeding Awareness Month. an article from June about the contraversy around breastfeeding on the social networks. Breastfeeding Photos On Instagram Get ‘The Leaky Boob’ Disabled, Then Reinstated, Huffington Post