I'm not exactly sure why breastfeeding matters so much to me. My knee jerk reaction is that my mom breastfed me, and because when it comes to motherhood I aspire to be as much like her as I can - naturally I wanted to breastfeed, too. But then I found out she only breastfed me for [...]
It's World Breastfeeding Week and once again I have a little nursling who wakes me every few hours at night, and who reminds me to sit down every few hours during the day and just be. She's my last and it makes me nostalgic just to think about life after she weans. Free-er but farther [...]
If you've ever flown on Southwest airlines, then you know about their innovative and unique seating system. The way it works is you check in online for your flight exactly 24 hours before takeoff, and based on how fast your clicker finger is, you get assigned a letter and a number. A1-60 is the best, [...]
The funny thing about pregnancy and childbirth is that you spend SO LONG waiting for your baby to be born - and then as soon as you go into labor time somehow shifts into hyper-speed and suddenly you're home from the hospital with a newborn and a toddler and your husband is back to work [...]
Last week a friend of mine who works for The Immunization Partnership asked if I would be interested in writing a post for their blog, MOMmunizations. I happily agreed, because despite my general distaste for for drugs - especially for kids, vaccinations are something I believe very strongly in. Now, I am no doctor, and [...]
When you have a baby these days, particularly if you live in Portland, Maine (or any other "progressive" city) you are overwhelmingly pressured into breastfeeding. And don't get me wrong - it's great that breastfeeding is now the recommended way to feed baby, and that doctors and parents alike are beginning (or continuing) to realize [...]
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