From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Hand Expression

August 26, 2009

Orig­i­nally pub­lished on A Piece of My Mind. I men­tioned yes­ter­day that I use hand expres­sion at times. I first learned how to do this when I wanted to increase my sup­ply because I found out that breast compressions/massage cou­pled with my pump could increase out­put. I noticed a sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ence between when I did […]

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Pumping

August 24, 2009

Orig­i­nally posted on A Piece of My Mind. Pump­ing. I am not sure why I have not really blogged about pump­ing. Obvi­ously I did pump and hand express (tomorrow’s topic) or I would not have made it through over two years of nurs­ing while work­ing out­side the home with The Boy in day­care. I think […]

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Breastfeeding after reduction - 2 years and still going strong

August 20, 2009

When I was 15 years old, breast­feed­ing was the fur­thest thing from my mind, I just wanted smaller breasts.  I went from a 44E to a 38B (yes, clearly I was in the wrong band size pre-surgery.  I didn’t know about spe­cial order­ing bras, so I was just in the biggest I could get at […]

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Breastfeeding in Italy with a Toddler

August 18, 2009

I started this post after we returned from Italy in March 2009, but I never fin­ished it. What bet­ter time to do so than now? Before we left for Milan, I was a bit anx­ious about nurs­ing a tod­dler on the flights and abroad.  I was used to how nurs­ing a two year old was seen […]

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My thoughts on being a stay at home mom

August 17, 2009

It seems we all here at Mamas World­wide needed the sum­mer off!  If you are inter­ested in writ­ing a guest post or pos­si­bly becom­ing a con­trib­u­tor, we wel­come your inter­est, get more details on our con­tact page. It’s been a good sum­mer for us.  My son Oliver turned two and we’re still breast­feed­ing, two topics […]

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