Nipple Confusion by Aly Halpert & Friends

Nipple confusion: the tendency of an infant to unsuccessfully adapt between drinking milk from a parent’s body and bottle-feeding... after a bottle nipple, infants can forget the proper suction technique for a human nipple and/or be frustrated at the slower flow of human milk.

Conceived on a random afternoon hanging out with lots of queer friends and a baby, Nipple Confusion is inspired by a little one and the joyful mish-mosh of bio and queer family spread out over the U.S. and Canada who love them. (Conception - “Hey, Nipple Confusion would be a great band name! Let’s write a title track.”)

With songs written over a fourteen-month period, beginning with their mama’s labor and ending a little after their first birthday, Nipple Confusion addresses a breadth of topics, from parenting methodologies, to farts, to the importance of feeling your feelings. Unapologetically Jewish, queer, and political, you & your little friends and big friends can jam to niggunim about pooping, enjoy songs about bears, and envision a world without capitalism all on the same album. The songs on this album are for everyone, large and small, and are especially for families where “the love/around you/doesn’t look like a certain way”. This album is for you, in celebration of you, in a world that is better because of your light and goodness -- for queer families, and the child inside all of us.

Suggested donation $8-18

Tracklist

1.	Ease In	2:35

2.	Nipple Confusion	1:32

3.	The Bear Song	2:49

4.	Elimination Communication	2:47

5.	Milk or Bounce	2:17

6.	You Can Still Cry	3:10

7.	The Wheels on the Bus of the World to Come	3:23

8.	No One Just Like You	1:09

9.	The Butterfly Song	2:45

10.	You Can Splash (The Water)	2:04

Credits

released December 2, 2018

Produced by Aly Halpert & Ian McGuire
Recording, editing, mixing, & mastering by Ian McGuire
Cover art by Aly Halpert in collaboration with Rachel Beck
CD Design by Tommy Kubitsky

Back-up vocals: Margot Seigle, Nicole Bauman, & Zettie Shapey
Back-up baby noises: LoolisTown Bauman

Appreciations:
To Ian, for taking on this amazingly bizarre project with so much generosity!
To our many families, I am so glad we get to do so much together, support each other the whole way through, and sing together!
To Loolistown, who lights up a whole city’s worth of joy in my heart.

CD Production sponsored in part by "S.T.E.V.E. -- So That Eden Village Employees (Can Do Anything)"

License

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.