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Breastfeeding

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 […]

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Hotslings Nursing Covers

November 22, 2008

Hot­slings is now offer­ing chic nurs­ing cov­ers in two design col­lec­tions, Hot­slings and Lit­tle House.  You can order them from the Hot­slings web­site for $38 to $44 depend­ing on design.

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Ten Reasons to Wear Your Baby

November 17, 2008

It’s Inter­na­tional Baby­wear­ing Week, and in honor, I will share Ten Rea­sons to Wear Your Baby… or rather ten rea­sons why I wore my baby that might apply to you! Trav­el­ing light.  The first inter­na­tional trip I took The Boy on, I had way too much gear– car seat, stroller, dia­per bags (yes, more than one). […]

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Gourmandise, the sexiest nursing bra ever?

October 6, 2008

Gour­man­dise is a French lin­gerie com­pany that makes pos­si­bly the sex­i­est nurs­ing bras I’ve ever seen.  I have not been able to track down any infor­ma­tion on the com­pany, as appar­ently there are a lot of things described as “gour­man­dise” in French. For Eng­lish and French speak­ers, the ivory/praline ver­sion is sold by Mamanana.com, a […]

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Early Detection of Breast Cancer

October 2, 2008

Octo­ber is Breast Can­cer Aware­ness month, so here’s a reminder to get your­self screened for breast can­cer.  All women should have their risk of breast can­cer assessed by their physi­cian.  Those of nor­mal risk who are under 40 should have a clin­i­cal breast exam done at least every three years by your doc­tor.  If you’re […]

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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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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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