by Melodie on February 3rd, 2010

I’ve recently started working towards not nursing my youngest daughter to sleep. She’s two and a half and I’m at the point where I’d like to be able to go out of the house once in awhile past 8:00 without worrying about how my daughter is going to fall asleep without me. Because she never [...]

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by Melodie on December 2nd, 2009

Thanks to the press for yet another reason to jump to the defense of parents who sleep with their infants. Recently, the news reported that a mother, who was flying from Washington D.C. to Kuwait, fell asleep nursing her four week old infant and accidentally suffocated her. Of course the words “breastfeeding” and “suffocates infant” [...]

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I’ve nursed both of my kids to sleep. At naptime and at night, which means I’ve spent a lot of time in bed when I could have been doing other things. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t started this habit.
My first daughter took up to an hour or more to fall asleep when she was a [...]

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I transitioned my bed-sharing toddler to her own bed when she turned two. I had willingly suffered through two years of very poor sleep, because the crying-it-out alternative was not an option for me. My first daughter litterally woke up an average of 10 times a night. Every time she woke up I nursed her. [...]

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