The following is a guest post by Kathy Dutton, an IBCLC who lives over in my neck of the woods on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. This was originally published in our local magazine, Island Child, and I am re-publishing it with the author’s permission. Can I still breastfeed if I have implants? The answer is [...]
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Welcome to the Carnival of “This is what a nursing toddler looks like,” organized by @TopHat8855 from The Bee in Your Bonnet. Please see below for more great posts! Here is my contribution entitled “The Pros and Cons of Breastfeeding a Toddler.” The Pros I love breastfeeding my toddler because it is a great [...]
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Today I’m wondering how many of us were breastfed and if you think it made any difference to the type of relationship you have with your mom? Non-breastfeeders feel free to jump in here too. My mom was not breastfed. She, like the rest of her siblings, was bottle fed a concoction made of evaporated [...]
May 1st is May Day or Beltane, significant to some as a festival of fertility, flowers, sensuality and delight. I like to recognize this day of “flowering life” by planting seeds in my garden, placing hawthorne branches (traditional) and boughs of apple blossoms at my front door (see left). Last year we went to the beach, [...]
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