Being over-expectant

September 27, 2009

I find myself 41 weeks and 1 day preg­nant today. As Delene was born 11 days after her due date, I had made up my mind since the very begin­ning of this preg­nancy that this baby was going to be late too. I told every­one that too. I wanted to save myself the hard realization […]

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Raising an Adventurous Eater

September 19, 2009

My 2 year old son Oliver eats just about every­thing.  The other day, Janda and I had lunch at Aran here in Regens­burg, and Oliver had fresh Ger­man whole grain bread spread half with tomato-garlic spread and the other half with a tuna-artichoke mix.  He’s eaten caviar, blood sausage, raw onion, boiled beef with horseradish, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Book Review: Little Earthquakes

June 27, 2009

I’m not really a chick-lit fan, but when this book came up on offer in our read­ing group, some­thing about it clicked with me and I decided to give it a try.  Lit­tle Earth­quakes by Jen­nifer Weiner is about four new moms adjust­ing to life with new­borns. I loved that the moms were ded­i­cated to […]

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Helping my little one off the nappies...

June 15, 2009

I have been think­ing long and hard about post­ing about this very del­i­cate sub­ject. It works dif­fer­ent for every­one. It took us now just over two months to get to the point where I can say with rea­son­able con­fi­dence that we have made it! Our daugh­ter not only wear no nap­pies dur­ing the day, but she […]

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