Anyone who thinks it’s weird or gross or wrong to have a conversation with your nursling about breastfeeding is totally missing out! Being able to talk about breastfeeding with my almost 3 year old is awesome. I love hearing what she thinks about it and how much she enjoys it. It’s also pretty handy knowing [...]
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No, I’m not actually nursing my cat! But I couldn’t resist getting a few photos after my cat jumped up to cuddle with us when we got home from a kitty cat-themed birthday party on the weekend. Thus the whiskers on my nursling’s face. Linked up at Go Graham Go!, 5 Minutes for Mom, Crazyland, The [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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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