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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 […]

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Facebook still banning breastfeeding photos

January 3, 2009

Just a few weeks after cre­at­ing our Mamas World­wide Face­book page, I hear that Face­book is still ban­ning breast­feed­ing pho­tos as obscene, and doing it rather often too!  I find it to be a huge dou­ble stan­dard that top­less women, fully expos­ing their breasts, are shown in ads on Face­book, but breast­feed­ing pics are too […]

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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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The Bottle of My Dreams

August 21, 2008

When The Boy was around nine months old, I went back to work full-time out­side of the home. Up until then, he had had very few bot­tles. My hus­band was not itch­ing to give him one, and if The Boy was not starv­ing, he would refuse it any­way. We started try­ing bot­tles when The Boy […]

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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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