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Breastfeeding Your Toddler: Nutrition and Nurture

December 22, 2011




Some mothers have a specific weaning age in mind when they start nursing their child. Sometimes they change their mind along the way and sometimes they don’t. Other mothers purposely pursue child-led weaning right from the start. Some simply decide to take it one day at a time. Regardless of the approach that you choose, [...]

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Breastfeeding Twins: Lara’s Story

January 27, 2011




I’m away at the Blissdom Conference this week and decided to use the opportunity to feature some fabulous guest posts from bloggers I love. This one, by Lara from Gliding Through Motherhood shares her story about nursing twins and her tips for prospective twin moms who want to nurse. ~~~~~ Breastfeeding was never something I [...]

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Two babies, two good decisions, around $4000 saved

April 22, 2010




My babies are growing up. Both of them are out of diapers during the day and both of them are pretty much done with nursing (Emma still comfort nurses a bit in bed). This is a time of mixed emotions. Happy to be done with some of the baby stuff (good riddance diapers!), but also [...]

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Mentoring the Next Generation (Almost Wordless Wednesday)

March 3, 2010




I far too often hear “but I don’t want my children to see THAT” in people’s objections to nursing in public.  I think we need our children to see more of THAT. Be a mentor!

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Baby smothered on airplane: Is breastfeeding to blame?

December 2, 2009




Yesterday the Associated Press issued a news report called Breast-feeding mother smothers baby on jet. I was profoundly disturbed by this article, for several reasons: First, anytime a baby dies it is a tragedy. I’m sure the mother is devastated and the wording of the article title places the blame on the mother. It could [...]

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Societal Barriers to Breastfeeding

September 10, 2009




When people think of breastfeeding difficulties, the things that probably come to mind are supply issues, bad latch, cracked nipples, constant feedings, and the like. Certainly, there are women who are afflicted by those difficulties and who cannot overcome them. But I believe the societal barriers to breastfeeding (propagated by the kyriarchy)  have a much [...]

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Nursing a Toddler in a Ring Sling

May 5, 2009




I’m posting this picture of nursing a toddler in a ring sling as part of the “This is what a nursing toddler looks like” carnival being organized by @TopHat8855 from the bee in your bonnet. Below the post, I’ll be linking up to the other carnival participants as they add their posts over the course [...]

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Our Breastfeeding Story

December 29, 2008




I wrote this story out a long time ago after being asked time and time again to share it on various message boards where I provided support to moms that went through the same breastfeeding difficulties that I did with my first child. I just realized that I never shared it on my blog and [...]

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December 27: Change your facebook profile picture to a breastfeeding picture

December 26, 2008




For one day on December 27, mothers around the world are changing their profile pictures to breastfeeding pictures to protest facebook deleting breastfeeding pictures and threatening to delete the accounts of the people that post them: Facebook continues to classify breastfeeding photos as obscene content. They continue to arbitrarily remove these photos from member albums [...]

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The calories and breastfeeding rollercoaster

November 25, 2008




Everyone knows that breastfeeding helps you lose the excess fat leftover from your pregnancy. But it is more complex than that. Breastfeeding by the numbers Being a bit of a math geek, I thought I’d have some fun with the numbers. Let’s start with the basics: Producing 1oz of breastmilk burns about 26 calories: According [...]

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