Tandem Nursing – Nurturing Multiple Children
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View ArticleTandem Nursing – Radical Or Just Another Form Of Mothering?
We are running a series on tandem nursing this month on our blog and have recruited stories from great moms across the globe! You will hear stories about nursing while pregnant, challenges of tandem...
View ArticleTandem Nursing: Taking Care Of Mom Is Key!
We are running a series on tandem nursing this month on our blog and have recruited stories from great moms across the globe! You will hear stories about nursing while pregnant, challenges of tandem...
View ArticleNursing Through Pregnancy: An Unexpected Bonus
We are running a series on tandem nursing this month on our blog and have recruited stories from great moms across the globe! You will hear stories about nursing while pregnant, challenges of tandem...
View ArticleJewel’s Breastfeeding Journey
By Tiffany Holley Jewel and I got off to a rough start with our breastfeeding relationship. Her birth was difficult, and we ended up with not quite the totally natural birth I had hoped for....
View ArticleBreastfeeding After Breast Surgery
An Interview with Hannah Moss, mom to Henry, 3, and Eleanor, 2 months. KRL: You had breast surgery long before you had children. Can you tell us about that? HM: I had a breast reduction when I was 17...
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You Make My Motor Run: How to Tell if Your Breastpump is Working
When I was pumping for my second son (milk he never did agree to drink from a bottle!), I noticed my output decreasing when he turned six months old. I worried I was having issues letting down for the...
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Finding a Babysitter for My Breastfed Babies
I have 3 sons, so right away, I’m looking for a special calibre of babysitter for both my working hours and the date night I fantasize about eventually taking with my husband. I can’t just get a random...
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Small Changes, Big Difference: Pump Parts and Milk Expression
Judy, our resident breast pump expert, asked me if I would test out some new valves that Ameda has released to improve their pump efficiency. I currently don’t own an Ameda pump, so she lent me the...
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Dynashape Nursing Tank: A New Love Affair
I’ve been gushing about the Glamourmom Full Bust nursing tank for a long time. Almost 3 years, in fact, as I have lived in them since late pregnancy with my second son. I see we now carry it in pink,...
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Preparing for Road Trips with a Breastfed Baby
It’s almost Thanksgiving–can you believe how that sneaked up on us?–and I’m once again preparing to take my family on the road. It feels like just last week I was hauling my newborn to my...
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Gymnurstics
Gymnurstics. My friend taught me this term. It refers to nursing a wiggling baby or a toddler, or nursing both of these at once. Or, in my most recent struggle, nursing a wriggling baby and trying to...
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Hands-Free Bra Makes Pumping Better
Let’s be realistic. Pumping milk from your breasts is never going to be awesome. It just isn’t. But! I was finally convinced (5 years into my nursing journey) to buy a hands-free pumping bra and lo! It...
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Staying Hydrated While Nursing
Ever since I got pregnant with my second child, I’ve done a poor job of remembering to hydrate. Even as I type this, the back of my throat feels a bit dry! What is it about parenting young children...
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Becoming a Milk Donor: An Update
A few months ago, I blogged about signing up to donate my breastmilk to a milk bank. Since then, I’ve been slowly squirreling away extra milk. I’m up to 75 ounces in my neighbors’ deep freeze. Does...
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Caffeine: A Tandem Nurser’s Love Affair
My mother is a big-time coffee drinker. This has always been true, since she was a little girl. Her grandmother used to give her “coffee milk,” which was basically a splash of coffee in a glass of...
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Sending My Baby to Daycare
I went back to work when my first son was 6 weeks old. I was teaching at a university and the semester began when it began, so I left him at home with a nanny. He took a bottle just fine, voraciously...
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Nursing Hunger: Fighting the Ravenous Feeling
Here’s what I ate for dinner a few weeks ago: about a quarter pound of meatloaf, a heaping helping of buttered noodles, some salad. Then, for dessert I had a huge bowl of popcorn, half a chocolate bar,...
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Coping with Teething
I thought by the time I had my third baby, I’d have everything figured out. You can feel free to laugh with me. I’m laughing at myself right now! But really, I thought that.Currently, my 4-month-old is...
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Adjusting Decorating Expectations to Meet Kids Where They Are
I love reading design blogs and fantasizing about having a Christmas tree with monotone ornament selection, a mantle filled with precious, lovely things, maybe even some snow globes sitting around.In...
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