Have you ever had a stranger try to get into your car? While you were standing right next to it? Well, that’s what happened to me yesterday. My husband, the girls and I were driving home from visiting my family at the north end of Vancouver Island when we had to stop to get some [...]
The following post by Ruth Moss is #4 in my series on Mental Health and Breastfeeding. The other posts can be found here, here and here. Ruth was one of the first breastfeeding moms I made friends with on Twitter. Her talent for writing can be enjoyed all over the internet. For a list of [...]
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This is Post #3 in my Breastfeeding and Mental Health series. Today I am honoured to have a guest post from Arwyn at Raising My Boychick who shares her experience of a meeting with her psychiatrist when she was considering having a baby and breastfeeding. The other posts in this series can be found here, [...]
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Today I took a mental health day – literally! I went to work! No, not my daycare job sillies, back to my old mental health job. It sucked dragging my butt out of bed at 5:30 am, gently unlatching my toddler’s mouth from my breast where she’d been stuck most of the night, subconsciously aware [...]
I have read some amazing, well-written, interesting, thought-provoking and inspiring breastfeeding-related posts this week. They have been such a pleasure to read I wanted to share my top favorites with you. Do toddlers still need to be given formula milk (a.k.a.Breastmilk v. Formula? by Jenny at Chronicles of a Nursing Mom. Jenny discusses the advertising [...]
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