Ah, the early days of breastfeeding. They can be everything from painful and frustrating and full of teary moments to joyous, rewarding, and pride-instilling. But the one thing for sure, unless you are a breastfeeding expert before actually having your first child (Anyone? Anyone? Hm. Unlikely.) is realizing it is nothing like what you imagined [...]
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It’s Fresh Fruit and Vegetables month! Aren’t you excited? I mean who knew they could dedicate an entire month to apples and carrots? Who comes up with these special days and months one wonders. Or maybe you’re wondering how I know these things? Wasn’t it just yesterday I did a post finding a way to [...]
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Women in general are wicked multitaskers. Moms have no choice but to learn how to multitask if they don’t already, and breastfeeding moms have to do it with a 5-35 lb weight hanging off their chest. My husband doesn’t understand multitasking. He thinks that if projects don’t receive one’s full attention, then they don’t get done to [...]
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Today I want to know what you think about government regulated or government subsidized breastfeeding. How would you feel if you learned that your country required new mothers to sign a consent form if they wanted to give baby formula to their infants? How would you feel if breastfeeding women got paid to breastfeed? Is this [...]
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Today I’m wondering how many of us were breastfed and if you think it made any difference to the type of relationship you have with your mom? Non-breastfeeders feel free to jump in here too. My mom was not breastfed. She, like the rest of her siblings, was bottle fed a concoction made of evaporated [...]
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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<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 expect these [...]
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