From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Breastfeeding After Reduction: One Year In

August 7, 2008

The sum­mer before 10th grade in high school, I got a breast reduc­tion. The thought of how the surgery would affect my abil­ity to breast­feed at some point in the prob­a­bly dis­tant future did not even cross my mind.  At 15, I was a 44E, after the surgery, I was down to a 38B (and […]

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Review: Nursing Tops

August 6, 2008

Liv­ing in Ger­many means that I see a lot of nurs­ing moms who don’t bother with nurs­ing tops. I don’t quite have their body con­fi­dence or their quickly regained svelte fig­ures, so I pre­fer to keep my fat rolls under cover by wear­ing nurs­ing tops when I expect to be breast­feed­ing in pub­lic. The most […]

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Good Stuff: Sack-N-Seat

August 5, 2008

At eigh­teen months, my son is just big enough to sit up to the table in a nor­mal chair, but way too wig­gly to stay there for long. We use his high chair at home, but I’m too busy try­ing to stash his extra stuffed giraffe and some clean under­wear in our lug­gage to imagine […]

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Review: Nursing Bras

August 5, 2008

In the begin­ning, while your breasts are ten­der and fluc­tu­at­ing a lot in size, you’re going to want a bra that is soft and stretchy. Many, many moms swear by the Bravado Orig­i­nal Nurs­ing Bra, but for me, with my broad chest and wider than aver­age shoul­ders, the Orig­i­nal Nurs­ing Bra did not fit at […]

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How does the World View Public Breastfeeding?

August 4, 2008

This blog hap­pens to be start­ing smack dab in the mid­dle of World Breast­feed­ing Week (Aug 1–7, 2008). I’m a big activist in sup­port of breast­feed­ing (a lac­tivist, so to speak), so I thought I’d cel­e­brate by mak­ing a post each day for the rest of the week that is related to breast­feed­ing. Today, I’ll […]

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