Before I became a mother, I didn’t know how long I would breastfeed. Before the birth of my first daughter I thought that I would return to work immediately following a year long maternity leave, so I guess I pictured breastfeeding until she turned one. But when she turned one I knew that we would [...]
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I do not like the first nursing session of the day.
I wish that it would go away.
Some say that it’s the last to go,
And I wish this wasn’t so.
For it makes me crazy, oh.
Morning nursing starts around 6:30 AM here. My bed-sharing 34 month old daughter wakes up and sleepily asks for “milkies.” This nursing [...]
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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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Mouth meets gravel.
Oh, how it hurts.
“Help me mama!”
“I have a fat lip!”
Milkies make it all better.
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I’ve recently started working towards not nursing my youngest daughter to sleep. She’s two and a half and I’m at the point where I’d like to be able to go out of the house once in awhile past 8:00 without worrying about how my daughter is going to fall asleep without me. Because she never [...]
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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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My toddler likes to pull on and look down my shirt from time to time. She likes to make sure her milkies are still there, I guess. This weekend, during a rare cuddle with the whole family in bed, was no exception. She took the blankets and pulled them back and pulled on my [...]
