I received the following letter over the weekend from a woman who wished to share her story with as many people as possible. The same letter has already been posted on the Mommy News Blog, but I decided to print it here too. I also have a different slant on this. I have left [...]
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Leslie Ott, a certified lactation educator, who is working towards becoming a IBCLC has an idea that just may revolutionize American breastfeeding society and health care. She wants to create a non-profit organization to provide breastfeeding education, resources, lactation consultant services and support, breast pumps and supplies at little or no cost for low income [...]
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You are passionate about breastfeeding. You want to support other breastfeeding moms. You want to devote yourself to helping educate families and individuals about the importance of breastfeeding, and now you want to figure out how to do it. Read on – this post is for you.
As an aside – Welcome to April’s “Carnival Of Breastfeeding [...]
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Today, real wet nursing is rare. It runs a steep price tag and it is so taboo in present culture that you would be hard pressed to find a wet nurse willing to talk to the media. Unless of course you’re the woman from the video in yesterday’s post, Wet Nursing & Cross Nursing in [...]
<a href =”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1518512/” >Would you nurse another woman’s baby?</a> <br/> <span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”> (<a href =”http://www.polldaddy.com”> polls</a>)</span>
When my daughters were babies I made it perfectly clear to all my lactating friends, that if there were ever a natural disaster and they had my babies, and I couldn’t get to them, I would [...]
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I have been using twitter for a little over a month and as of today I am excited to report that I have 906 followers. Now if only they would all subscribe to my blog I’d be rocking! For those of you who don’t know much about twitter, it is a social networking site that [...]
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I am pleased to share a guest post with my readers today that was written by a reader and friend, Melissa. The following is her story of her extended breastfeeding relationship with her son, Cole.
When I was pregnant with my son, I imagined myself having a wonderful breastfeeding experience, nourishing and nurturing my baby into [...]
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