Breastfeeding is a wonderful thing. Not only is it a baby’s best food, free, and environmentally friendly, it also has a host of other medicinal uses and serves as a terrific parenting tool. Baby crying? Time to breastfeed. Child hurt, tantruming, or fighting with sibling? Put a boob in her mouth. But can too much [...]
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Most breastfeeding moms at one time or another have heard a baby cry who wasn’t their own and felt their milk let down. This is kind of what I’m talking about today, but not exactly. Nor am I talking about nursing someone else’s child for money or because you’ve struck up a deal with someone [...]
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Yesterday was about good days. I have a blog post sitting in the queue about bad days. Today is about normal days. And let me just say if I could experience a normal day as consciously as the person who wrote this quote, I might never feel the bad days again. “Normal day, let me [...]
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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A poll, a poll! Who doesn’t love a poll? The purpose of this poll is to collect a smidgen of reader information so I can provide posts relevant to everyone’s needs. Plus, I’m curious! So whether you are new to the blog, a loyal reader, a lurker or just visiting by accident (oops, no porn here!), [...]
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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