by Melodie on May 20th, 2010

It is widely recommended by health professionals that you introduce whole cow’s milk into your baby’s diet at 12 months of age. It doesn’t matter if they are breastfed or formula fed, but at age one they want you to start giving your child whole cow or goat milk. Most moms I know have unquestioningly [...]

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by Melodie on May 17th, 2010

My nursling is three so I’m pretty sure we’re closer to the end of the spectrum of our breastfeeding relationship than the beginning. For the most part I still  really enjoy breastfeeding my daughter. I get to sit down and relax, we  re-connect and make googly eyes at each other, my mind gets a chance [...]

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by Melodie on January 20th, 2010

The following post was written by Virginia who blogs at Rotormommy.  If you don’t yet know her, go check her out. She blogs about attempting to balance being pregnant with her second baby, working full time, graduate school and family, while still staying somewhat sane. Since I am not a pumping mom but wanted to be [...]

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Is it always bad to advertise for baby bottles? Does it always break the WHO International Code of Marketing Breast milk Substitutes? Would it be unethical of a blog to advertise for baby bottles if no imagery was used? What about if that site was a beastfeeding site and the ad was meant solely for [...]

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by Melodie on December 28th, 2009

This morning I was lying in bed, somewhere between half asleep and half awake after a long night of my two and a half year old waking up every 45 minutes to nurse. It was 8:00 and she wanted to nurse again. I was done. Finished. Exhausted. There would be no nursing. “Honey, you’ve been [...]

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by Melodie on December 14th, 2009

      I love hearing all the names kids use for breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is such a special phase of a young child’s life that I think it only appropriate for them to name this important and intimate time. My own daughter’s name for breastfeeding evolved over the couple months it took for her to [...]

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by Melodie on November 30th, 2009

I parent by nature because nature is the God in my bones. I cherish an ideal of parenting that keeps me close to the Earth and is as instinctive as the rooting mouth of an infant. While it is easy to find a community of mothers who also subscribe to natural parenting values — “crunchy” moms if [...]

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