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Breastfeeding after reduction surgery - the second time around

February 9, 2011

I wrote pre­vi­ously about breast­feed­ing my first child after hav­ing had breast reduc­tion surgery as a teenager.  We suc­cess­fully breast­fed for 27 months, until I stopped pro­duc­ing milk due to hyper­eme­sis dur­ing my sec­ond preg­nancy.  Because I had to pump and sup­ple­ment dur­ing the first six months of Oliver’s life, until he started eat­ing solids […]

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Thoughts on Parenting

January 21, 2011

My New Years Res­o­lu­tion this year was to get back to blog­ging, on all my blogs.  So far, this hasn’t worked out great, Leo is crawl­ing and dur­ing the hour nap that he takes in the morn­ing while Oliver is in preschool, I often try to do things like shower, do laun­dry, wash dishes, or […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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 […]

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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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