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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Welcome to the October Carnival of Breastfeeding. The theme this month is “What I wish I knew then.” Make sure you check out the other carnival participant posts linked at the bottom of this one. They will be updated throughout the day. I wish I knew that cracked and bleeding nipples weren’t something a breastfeeding [...]
I was contacted by a Lansinoh representative about doing a review of a few of their products for my blog. I was interested, but upon reviewing their products felt that I could not do the review justice without some assistance from a mom with a new baby, as many of Lansinoh’s products are geared towards [...]
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Biting is a concern I often hear expressed by new moms, moms-to-be or women who don’t have children. Especially when you talk about breastfeeding past six months. “Doesn’t she bite you?” “I don’t plan on breastfeeding once he gets teeth.” Many babies never bite and if your baby does it is usually pretty simple to [...]
I’ve nursed both of my kids to sleep. At naptime and at night, which means I’ve spent a lot of time in bed when I could have been doing other things. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t started this habit. My first daughter took up to an hour or more to fall asleep when she was [...]
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Racheal McCaig aka “Energizer Mummy” recently wrote a post called Bring on The Lactivists. She wrote it in response to comments she received regarding her tweet about Nestle sponsoring a “Perinatal & Pediatric Nutrition Conference” in Edmonton, Alberta. She says the responses to her tweet ranged from “tame to obscene” thus she cannot support lactivists [...]
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(The following story is fictional. Should you see yourself in the Queen then kudos to you!) Once upon a time (as recent as a moment ago), there was a Queen who gave birth to a Princess. What made her a Queen was that her partner called her one, and what made their daughter a Princess [...]
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