Kelly Preston on Breastfeeding

It always amazes me that women can be each other’s worst enemies. 

Why do we feel such a need to judge other parenting ways as wrong instead of just different?

Celebrity Momster Kelly Preston is the latest to ignite a flame war within comments on People’s article: Kelly Preston:Breastfeeding Brings Closeness.

“He’ll come up and point and go, ‘Mama, more,’” says Preston. “It’s so cute!”

Preston still breastfeeds her 16-month-old son Benjamin and critics jumped onto the fact that her son is old enough to ask for nursing, so he then must be old enough to not need to nurse anymore.

Some commentators were quick to point out the error in that logic:

All babies ask for it, as a newborn they cry. As a toddler they speak. Since YOU can ask for your favorite dish should you also be denied?

And…

Not sure where this “If they are old enough to ask for it, they are too old for it” mantra came from. Someone said it, thought it was funny, and now everyone says it as though they are stating a fact backed up with empirical evidence. And does this mean kids with learning delays who talk later should breastfeed until they are three while others should stop at one?

Why can’t we just accept that mothers nursing their babies or toddlers is fine, healthy, and perfectly normal.

It doesn’t mean that every mother needs to do it, but why are mothers so quick to jump down the throats of other mothers just doing what’s best for their family?

Why do mothers feel the need to have the right and only answer when it comes to parenting?

FYI: Tori Spelling Is Fertile

How much Celebrity Momster information is too much?

Tori Spelling Is "Super Fertile,"According to Husband Dean McDermott announces Us Magzine.

So, just in case anyone was wondering, Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have lots of sex and they’re both fertile and virile people.

And I’m quoting here: "She's just super fertile," her husband Dean McDermott says.

And Spelling was quick to point out recently that her husband is unstoppable when it comes to making babies.

I don’t know. How does hearing that other couples have lots of sex make you feel? Queezed out or ready to get in on some of the action, too?

And just to reassure us that we’ll not only get to hear about their baby-making but their actual babies’ lives, too, McDermott reassures fans that all their kids will be on display for all to see in their latest reality show: "Tori and I love the fact that we get to work together," he explains. "We get to work with Liam and Stella; we get to stay together as a family. As long as people want to see us, w'ell keep making the show."

Hilary Duff Feeling Good About Her Body Postpartum

I’m going to have to agree with Perez Hilton on this one—seriously, people are going to talk bad about a woman’s body after she had a baby three weeks ago?

Hilary Duff says: "I read comments on my Twitter page about how I'm waddling into pilates and I go, 'wow, that's a really mean thing to say. I just had a baby three weeks ago!' There is a little bit of pressure but most of it comes from me." 

It’s no wonder that so many women have body issues when we feel the need to lash out at others to make ourselves feel better.

Celebrity Momsters are placed in the unenviable position of being in the spotlight where they get to absorb all our own self-hate.

Duff explains: "Right when I really started to show, I would look in the mirror and wonder whose body that was! But then about a month later, I just felt really proud that I had a body that could do what it was doing. It is incredible what your body can do. You can appreciate all of your imperfections because you have a beautiful baby who came from you and all that you went through."

I have always felt the most forgiving to my body when I was pregnant. It was the one chance as a woman I felt it was okay to let it all hang out in public and really feel proud.

I do feel good about my body now even though I am not at my thinnest or strongest. I really want to learn how to feel the way I felt when I was pregnant, every day. Just beautiful and perfect as I was.

Why do so many women have a hard time loving who they are in the moment?

Playboy Mansion Hosts an Easter Egg Hunt?!

Wow, am I getting to be an old fuddy-duddy or what?

I read Us Magazine’s piece: Jenny McCarthy's Son, 9:“I Like Pretty Chicks,” and was kind of in shock.

I didn’t know that the Playboy mansion had an annual Easter egg hunt and that children frolic around on the estate. But they do.

Jenny McCarthy took her son Evan to the event that supported McCarthy's charity, Generation Rescue, which is dedicated to helping children with autism spectrum disorders. McCarthy’s son was diagnosed with autism in 2005.

“McCarthy said she lost Evan for "probably 45 minutes" in the Mansion -- ultimately finding him hanging out in the infamous Grotto.

"And I went in there and he's laying there going, 'Hey.' And I said, 'Yeah?' and he said, 'You know I like chicks, right?' And I said, 'That's great!' And he goes, 'I like pretty chicks.' So I said, 'Awesome!' "

Evan then announced, "I just thought I'd come out and tell you."”

I’m just kind of all like, flustered. I think it’s great that Hefner would do something so kid-friendly and all, but I’m kind of skeeved out at the same time. I don’t know. Is the playboy mansion really such a great spot for an Easter egg hunt?

Melissa Rycroft Shares Her Postpartum Depression Struggle

Celebrity Baby Scoop reveals: Melissa Rycroft Reveals Postpartum Depression Struggle: "[I Was In] A Bad, Dark Place."

It’s helpful for all mothers when Celebrity Momsters open up in interviews about dealing with postpartum depression.

Reality TV star Melissa Rycroft opens up about being diagnosed with postpartum depression following the birth of her daughter Ava in 2011 and how struggling with its emotionally crippling effects made her question her mothering abilities. 

I suffered from ppd after my first child, but I had no mommy-friends at the time and was quite isolated so I did not recognize the signs.

The more information and reality that is presented to new mothers unfamiliar with postpartum depression the better.

“Almost immediately I didn’t feel right,” Rycroft says. “I had just given birth to this perfect baby, but absolutely nothing made me happy anymore. I had no idea what was wrong. I had these great blessings, but I felt empty. I’d put Ava in her crib and go outside and scream for a minute.”

It can be such a scary feeling to be so depressed when you think you are supposed to be at your happiest. There’s no shame or guilt in admitting to need help. 

Of course, depression at any point of one’s life should be dealt with as soon as it is recognized.

This mommying stuff is tough work!

Vanessa Lachey is Pro-Celebrity Mom

Vanessa Lachey her husband Nick Lachey are expecting a baby together.

Lachey has already come forward to set the record straight about what she thinks about Celebrity Momsters in the news:

"No one can tell anybody how to mother until you're a mother -- and everyone has their own methods and I think it's beautiful that these celebrity moms are doing what they're doing unapologetically because it's their child and it's their life. I just wish that as a society we could just commend them for being mothers."

I think Lachey says it really well. We need to celebrate all mothers and styles of mothering and see what we can learn from each other.

One mom’s way of feeding her child may not be right for us and our child, but it doesn’t make it wrong.

It’s easy enough to see why pre-chewing one’s baby’s food could be seen as a really sensible way to feed a baby to me, but I know others would argue it could be harmful. And I’m sure both sides could find experts to argue their position.

In the end, we need to let parents do what is best for their family without judgment.

Except, of course, for clearly creepy things like dressing their babies like strippers!

OK, so I’ve still got judgments, too…

A Celebrity Momster's Stripper Baby Photo?

So there’s a stripper baby photo circulating around. I’m not sure who posted it or where exactly it began, but I do know it gives me the creeps.

Now, I’m usually all about supporting mothers in all of their unique parenting methods, but this photo gives me pause. Sometimes, I guess, I just need to say, eww.

At the moment, this mother, or whoever she is, remains nameless, but I wonder what would happen if it came out that she was a Celebrity Momster.

I’m curious if the Internet reaction would be different if this was a Cindy Crawford or a Tori Spelling (remember that baby turkey costume?!) or a Beyonce Knowles posting their baby dressed like this.

Would fans find a well-taken, stylized shot of a Celebrity Momster baby dressed as a stripper cute and funny? While an unknown mother snapping a quick shot in her living room is deemed inappropriate?