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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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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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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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