This Is Your Brain On Breastfeeding
Sorry, Fuzzy Pregnancy Brain Continues with Breastfeeding You know how your brain literally shrinks while you’ve got a baby in the womb, causing what’s commonly and oh-so-affectionately known as...
View ArticleAre We Going To Tandem Nurse? That Is The Question, Isn’t It…
And The Answer Is… As with everything experienced in our breastfeeding journey, there’s no predicting what direction this nursing relationship will take with MaiTai once his little womb-dwelling...
View ArticleIn Pregnancy When My Breasts Dried Their Milk Tears
Alright. It’s time I write about this. About being tired of breastfeeding. So tired I was hating it. So tired… and no longer looking forward to it. How could all of me feel like “I love him and I love […]
View ArticleBreastfeeding With a Weaned One Watching
I wrote a post a while back about wondering whether 3.5 year old MaiTai would tandem nurse with his baby brother, Julep. MaiTai was still nursing regularly then, and it wasn’t until my eighth month of...
View ArticleThe Un-Wean
It hasn’t been long since I wrote my previous post about how 3.5 year old MaiTai apparently wouldn’t be tandem nursing. Well, perhaps I spoke too soon. The other day while I was nursing his baby...
View Article(Incorrectly) Assumed Reasons Why My 4-Year-Old Nurses
I think by now we can all agree exclusive breastfeeding is the optimal method of infant feeding. Our society is slowly but surely becoming more accepting (even approving) of breastfeeding (the concept...
View ArticleReasons Why My 4-Year-Old Nurses (His Words & Mine)
Reasons why my 4-year-old nurses — according to him: 1). “It’s delicious.” Obviously, breast milk tastes good. I’ve heard some adults who breastfed until school age say they have no memories of...
View ArticleNursing Aversion Makes Breastfeeding Confusing
Do you hate breastfeeding your toddler? I actually don’t. Hate breastfeeding, that is. Maybe you can tell from the near-thousand breastfeeding photos I’ve shared on Instagram or the tens-of-thousands...
View Article“Get Away From Me! I Love You.” (Alas, nursing aversion has found us)
Nursing has become repulsive. Not all the time — just during episodes of aversion, otherwise known as breastfeeding agitation, which come sporadically. And it’s intense enough at those times to make me...
View ArticleOne in The Womb & One on The Boob: Breastfeeding During Pregnancy
I really never imagined I’d be nursing during a pregnancy. It amazes me the endurance of this tradition we’ve made and how it’s seen us through so much. I don’t know if almost three-year-old MaiTai...
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