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 [...]
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 [...]
I realize it's been over a month since I've posted anything on this blog. That's because it's been over a month since I've done anything besides eat, sleep, nurse, pump, work and sing "I'm a Little Teapot" ten thousand times in a row. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Well, I am complaining but [...]
Monday I go back to work. I've been putting off writing those words, and this post for two reasons. For one, because I can't type while holding a baby and right now I pretty much refuse to put Mia down. And two, because just writing about going back to work makes me cry and yesterday [...]
Being a parent is hard. Being a parent of a newborn is really hard. But for centuries people have continued to have kids (granted some of them not on purpose, and some of them for the purpose of having enough farm hands - but many are lovingly and intentionally brought into this world) and now [...]
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 [...]
This Sunday Mia will be a month old. Holy shit is all I have to say about that. I can't believe 4 weeks have already flown by - and more distressing, that only 6 weeks are left until I have to go back to work. I really thought I was going to be able to [...]
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