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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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Nursing in comfort

November 30, 2009

My son is now nearly two months old and yes, I do manage to nurse him. He takes ages to get full up, so I sit a LOT… I try to walk about nursing him sometimes, but it isn’t always a good time or a good idea… So, I have to sit comfortable when he […]

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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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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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Cultural Differences in Parenting

April 6, 2009

As the mixed race child of an Asian woman who married a caucasian American man and immigrated to the United States, who then herself married a German and moved to Germany (still with me?), I’ve been aware of cultural differences in parenting styles most of my life. I never really stopped to examine what role […]

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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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