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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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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 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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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 […]

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