TIME Widening the Gap
I’m sure that by now, you have all seen the cover of this month’s TIME magazine. My initial reaction was “That’s awesome! Showing an older nursling on the cover of a magazine! I’ve always believed that the more people are exposed to nursing, the more they will accept it. But wait… there’s something wrong here. … Read more
Steps Towards Weaning
I’m officially there. I’m weaning. Well, more like I’m nudging her towards officially quitting breastfeeding. Technically, you start weaning the day you introduce something besides the breast. Even for exclusively breastfed babies, this starts early. It can be when you introduce a pacifier (which has been shown to decrease the overall breastfeeding relationship) or when … Read more
The Importance of the Virgin Gut
I didn’t hear about the concept of the virgin gut until Peanut was a few months old. At the time, I dismissed it as a “holier than thou” ideal. By then, Peanut had already had something other than breast milk. Actually, by the time she was a day old, she had already had something other … Read more
Tandem Nursing – 3 Years and 2 Months
The theme of my life for the last few weeks has been “getting the hang of things.” This applies to all aspects of having two children, but especially so with tandem nursing. Things are just starting to fit. Ask me a month ago, and I didn’t know if we’d get here. I was fixing to … Read more
Tandem Nursing a Toddler and a Newborn
We’ve made it a month into nursing two and it certainly hasn’t been easy. Well, it’s been easy on one side of it. Twig is a great nurser. She nurses quite frequently at times, but overall goes much larger intervals than Peanut ever did at this age (because Peanut had reflux). She spits up quite … Read more
Collaborations in Art and Breastfeeding
Today’s post is a guest post from Rachel at http://balance.ddtr.net. Read her full bio at the end of this post. Today she shares an absolutely fascinating story of her creation of The Food Landscape, which chronicles her youngest child’s introduction to solid foods through art. In my own experience, art and breastfeeding were interdependent. After … Read more
Breastfeeding at the End of Pregnancy
Breastfeeding sucks again. I kind of figured that since things were going so well at the beginning of this trimester that they’d continue to go well for the rest of the pregnancy. You know what they say about when you assume? It makes an ass out of you and me. All of a sudden, my … Read more
Breastfeeding in the Third Trimester
I’m 33 weeks now and things are still going steadily on the nursing front. Peanut still loves it and it gives me the ability to go to sleep, which is very much appreciated at the moment. We have no plans on stopping. Really, even if it wasn’t an enjoyable experience I probably wouldn’t stop right … Read more
Tandem Nursing and Nearing the Third Trimester
I’ve done my best to document how nursing through pregnancy has been. First it was painful and gave me the heebeegeebees, then my milk went away and Peanut didn’t nurse for days on end, then my colostrum came in and she was ecstatic, now things are pretty much back to normal. I realized that I … Read more
Rekindled Friendships and Breastfeeding Baskets
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine had a baby shower. I doubt any of you read back this long and honestly I don’t want to even re-read it myself, but I once wrote a post about this friend and a big argument we had about breastfeeding. She thought I was being brash … Read more
