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BioLatest Posts Erin Morrison-FortunatoErin is the mother of three beautiful and relatively happy children under the age of six. When she isn’t wiping snotty noses, washing a seemingly bottomless pile...
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BioLatest Posts SaraSara is an expat and new mom to Squeaker (not her real name) who puts her master's degree to good use changing diapers and learning to puree baby food. She blogs at Titleless Blog....
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BioLatest Posts Allison Slater TateAllison Slater Tate is a writer and a mother of four children. She uses her Princeton degree to analyze the characters in her home while fending off other mothers who...
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BioLatest Posts Samantha Cappuccino-WilliamsFor Samantha Cappuccino-Williams of RealMomofNJ, parenting is all heart and no BS. This real mom details parenthood in the straightforward style you've come...
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I literally worked my ta-tas off to earn my breastfeeding badge. There were times I thought I might cave under the pressure that comes with being the food, but this one woman dairy has managed to kept...
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Men. Dudes. Husbands. Partners of any gender. We need to have a conversation about breastfeeding support. The truth is, feeding a human being from your own body kind of sucks in the beginning. (A pun!...
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1. Your boobs are center stage… and not in a good way. The first days and weeks after your baby is born, you will find that the only thing you talk about more than poop is your breasts and not in a...
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Anytime a breastfeeding story comes up in the news, especially one in which a breastfeeding mom is asked to leave an area to feed her baby, I break my own rule about not reading online comments out of...
View Article10 Comebacks When Assholes Criticize Public Breastfeeding
I was in a lactating coma for six years. No, I did not nurse a child into elementary school. I popped out four babies in five years.I was on such a hormonal roller coaster that I could never come up...
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My boobs used to be really cute. No, really, they were. They were small, but nicely shaped and perky to no end. But then I had kids, chose to breastfeed, and that was the end of that.My second son...
View ArticleThe Lactation Hotline Gone Wrong
Image via ShutterstockIt was just a few days after bringing Penelope home from the hospital when I found myself locked in the bathroom at 1:30 in the morning, trying not to wake my husband. I was...
View Article10 Comebacks When Assholes Criticize Public Breastfeeding
I was in a lactating coma for six years. No, I did not nurse a child into elementary school. I popped out four babies in five years.I was on such a hormonal roller coaster that I could never come up...
View Article10 Reasons Weaning Really Sucks
I literally worked my ta-tas off to earn my breastfeeding badge. There were times I thought I might cave under the pressure that comes with being the food, but this one woman dairy has managed to kept...
View ArticleUnblocking Blocked Milk Ducts… With Vibration
My boobs reached a “C” cup by the time I started high school. I feared they’d keep growing until they looked like my mom’s, whose breasts hung almost to her belly button like old balloons with liquid...
View Article10 Things to Savor About Breastfeeding
I have been very lucky. I have had the choice to breastfeed all of my children. Not everyone has the choice; not everyone wants the choice. But, though I have had my own share of hurdles in the...
View Article15 Things That Suck About Breastfeeding
Image via ShutterstockI had a pretty hard time establishing breastfeeding. I feel like this gives me a pretty good reason to complain about it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad we’re still breastfeeding,...
View Article15 Things They Don’t Tell You About Breastfeeding
Maybe you’ve attended a breastfeeding class, seen the pamphlets in your doctor’s office, or done your research online. Whatever the case may be, you’ve no doubt seen the nutritional superiority of...
View Article10 Things to Savor About Breastfeeding
I have been very lucky. I have had the choice to breastfeed all of my children. Not everyone has the choice; not everyone wants the choice. But, though I have had my own share of hurdles in the...
View Article10 Truths About Tandem Nursing
Photo by Blue Silk Photography1. It’s lazy. Yes, you can learn other ways to soothe your pissed-off, supplanted toddler… but boobs work so well. Plus tandem nursing means bonus Internet time, because...
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