From the category archives:

Breastfeeding

Our Weaning Story

March 16, 2010

I thought for my 26-week pregnancy update, I’d tell the story of how, because of hyperemesis gravidarum, Oliver and I ended our breastfeeding relationship.
While much of the first six months of breastfeeding Oliver was spent trying to make it week to week, I always had the WHO guideline of breastfeeding for at least two years as […]

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Great Nursing and Maternity Wrap Cardigan

January 8, 2010

I am a huge fan of Victoria’s Secrets Soft & Sexy Wrap.  It’s not marketed for maternity and nursing wear, but that’s what so special about it.  It’s a good wardrobe investment that you can wear for years to come.  I’m 17 weeks pregnant and it fits great and is cute, I expect I can […]

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Separation while extended nursing

September 8, 2009

I figure I’m a little unusual in the modern, western world.  At 25 months, my son Oliver is still breastfeeding, and last weekend was our first extended separation since his birth.
I’ve left Oliver for a few hours before, even for almost a full day, but he’s never spent a night without me.  I was a little […]

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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 massage […]

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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 pumping […]

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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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Victoria’s Secret has nursing bras

April 25, 2009

While checking out the massive discounts over at Victoria’s Secret right now (It seems sexy lingerie isn’t in high demand during a recession), I noticed a category “Nursing.”  I clicked it and low and behold, there were two nursing bras:

VS piped, full-coverage, underwire, nursing bra (available in nude and black, both with white trim)

VS nursing plunge bra […]

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Breastfeeding After Reduction Surgery – 19 months and counting

February 27, 2009

I wrote before about my breast reduction and the first year of breastfeeding my son, now I thought I’d give you an update on how it’s going.  I’d planned to do an 18 months and counting update, but life got in the way, and here we are at 19 months and still going strong in […]

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How to make a regular bra into a nursing bra

February 7, 2009

Have you had difficulty finding a nursing bra that fits or that fits into your budget?

Here is a guest post from Janda, a friend of mine who is a seamstress.  After being frustrated with not finding a single nursing bra that fit me well (I went through dozens and not all were returnable), I asked […]

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