I thought we could get a bit inspired by the celebrity breastfeeding moms and what they had to say about breastfeeding. What are you thoughts on the subject? I have always felt a closeness when my child was breastfeeding and once they gave it up it meant they were in that next phase of life. […]
In my 50 Things I Wish I Knew About Breastfeeding I mentioned that breastfeeding causes tooth decay, while this may not be the case for everyone, it was the case for my family. I’d always heard that if you breastfed your baby they wouldn’t get cavities and boy was I shocked when I discovered this […]
The UK just announced that they are going to officially have a “Breastfeeding Week” in May. For those that don’t know, the National Awareness of Breastfeeding week will be (in the UK) from May 11th to May 17th. Events such as getting a breast buddy and talks about how to breastfeed and the benefits to […]
This is all in fun, but today we’ll list 13 breastfeeding books you may and may not have known about. Oh and if you’ve read one please voice your opinion on it. It makes shopping for books a little easier if we can weed out the good and the bad.
1. Breastfeeding for Dummies
2. The ABCs […]
Many breastfeeding moms have no clue when they are ill, with a breast infection, sometimes they’ll even mistake it as something else. Here are a few signs that you may have mastitis.
- Your breastfeed and become ill.
- Your breasts get swelled, or extremely engorged and hot.
- extreme pain while feeding or a burning feeling every […]
With only weeks before my husband was due to deploy we traveled across country to find a house for our eleven month old and myself. I was a new mom, not sure of everything in the mommy land but I was loving life and even life on the road. (our trip itself was long) We stopped every […]
These are various tips from readers, friends and my own experiences. I hope someone can help these helpful and remember if you have a tip on how to wean your breastfed child please let us know in the comments.
- We knew ahead of time when we wanted to wean so we started cutting down little […]
I remember when my third child was born, I was sitting in a Burger King with my older two children across from me. My husband was deployed in Iraq at the time and my little girl was about 3 weeks old, she was hungry and needed to eat. I figured it was perfectly safe and […]
This post was inspired by Thrifty Mommy’s 50 list Carnival. This is just a post of my experiences, not all the cases happen for everyone. (added due to a request)
1. That you get engorged in a matter of seconds.
2. You’d wake to a soaked bed, or night shirt.
3. Your baby would not want to eat […]
image from SXC.HU, Carin’s pic
As a mother to four children that I have each breastfed I came to the decision that with my last child I’d wean him before he turned a year old. While I know many believe that you wean a child when they decide, sometimes it is just something a mom must […]
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