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  • When You Were New

    Just after birth, they were constantly monitoring my blood pressure and pumping me full of pitocin after she was born, for fear of my losing more blood that I had already lost during the fourteen hours of labor which started… Continue reading

  • One Part Magic, Ninety Nine Parts Choice

    Dear I, A, and K, One part of my love for you is magic. This is the deep emotional undercurrent that courses through me when I see your face,  when I tuck you in, when I see you again after… Continue reading

  • Nurshable: Now in the correct time zone. :p

    I finally fixed the time on the server so that it correctly reflects my location on the east coast of the united states. I’m not exactly sure where it used to have me located, possibly in the UK. This has… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • True Choices and Banned Bags

    There is a hullabaloo happening as hospitals all over the United States are “banning the bags”, basically saying that infant formula samples should not be handed out to each new mother in hospitals. Words like “choice” are being thrown around.… Continue reading