Some of you may have noticed that it isn’t as politically correct these days to use the term “extended breastfeeding.” “Full term breastfeeding” is now the more accepted term.
Why? Because “extended” nursing implies only breastfeeding longer than the norm, and the norm, as many of you know is sadly not long at all.
Also, I venture [...]
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Breastfeeding is the most natural thing in the world, so do we really need a piece of technology to do it better? And if you breastfeed on demand, which is the method of feeding I recommend, so long as your baby is gaining weight and producing enough wet diapers, then you shouldn’t have to worry about whether [...]
I suffer from the antics of a twiddling toddler. Perhaps some of you can relate? She doesn’t do it every time she nurses but she does do it when she’s really tired.
Usually at those times I’m tired too. Then all of a sudden (twiddle twiddle). Argh! No!
It’s too bad that twiddling is such an annoyance [...]
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People spend New Year’s Eve reflecting on their past year. What do they remember most? How do they remember it? As an adult, most of my memories are visual and emotional, the emotions coming from sights and sounds – a flurry of colour, music, shouting, crying, laughing. But when I look back on my childhood [...]
Welcome to the December Carnival of Breastfeeding. After reading my post make sure to check out the other participants’ posts linked to at the bottom of this one.
My first daughter was three months old when she had her first Christmas. She was already a little person who was easily overstimulated, cried lots and needed to [...]
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I love hearing all the names kids use for breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is such a special phase of a young child’s life that I think it only appropriate for them to name this important and intimate time.
My own daughter’s name for breastfeeding evolved over the couple months it took for her to create discernible letter sounds [...]
Thanks to the press for yet another reason to jump to the defense of parents who sleep with their infants. Recently, the news reported that a mother, who was flying from Washington D.C. to Kuwait, fell asleep nursing her four week old infant and accidentally suffocated her. Of course the words “breastfeeding” and “suffocates infant” [...]
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