August 2012
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What Information are YOU Planning to Share With Your Daughters?
I’ve been writing what I plan on sharing with my daughters. I’m curious what things other moms will be sharing with theirs. I love hearing what information people want to pass on to their children about breastfeeding and parenting. Continue reading
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Carry Mammal
Sometimes we curl up and relax to nurse. Other times you squish into the crook of my arm and doze off at I chase your brothers around and around and around and around the house as you nurse. You’re my… Continue reading
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The Meaning of Choice
Dear Daughter, I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the word “choice”. It’s a word that is thrown around in many situations where true choice does not actually exist. It’s a word that is often used in contexts where the… Continue reading
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Baby Zombie at the Breast (My Third Breastfeeding Story)
My third child was quite clearly a zombie baby. Born thickly covered in vernix and blood-splattered from the partial placental abruption that she caused by scraping past her low-laying anterior placenta as she prepared herself to be born. She came… Continue reading
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And Then There was My Army Grunt (Second of Three Breastfeeding Stories)
My second child came the night that I decided that I was probably never going to go into labor and that I was going to reabsorb the baby. He was two days overdue and instead of feeling “close” to giving… Continue reading
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Learning to Breastfeed a Baby Dragon (One of three breastfeeding stories)
My first child came after twenty-seven hours of labor and was born a slight shade of purple. My first thought upon seeing him as the doctor held him up in front of me was that he looked like a freshly… Continue reading
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