Breastfeeding

Scarves as Hooter Hiders

April 16, 2010

On Easter morning a few weeks back, we got up and out the door in record time to make it to an Easter egg hunt organized at our local horse stables. Unfortunately, I shoulda checked the weather. The light drizzle turned in to gale-force winds and pelting rain as we parked the car. Still, we [...]

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Exercise and Breastfeeding

April 8, 2010

I’ve been wondering how exercise effects breastfeeding and suspected that being overly active reduces the quantity of breast milk. After much research, I’ve unfortunately found that it has no effect. I guess I was trying to rationalize not returning to my workout regimen. Sadly, it’s perfectly healthy to start working out again. even if you’re [...]

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Tales From a First Time Breastfeeder

April 7, 2010

The first time around, breastfeeding didn’t work for me. Maybe it was the ill-formed chin my baby had or maybe it was the breast reduction I had. Maybe I didn’t try hard enough (spoken like a true guilt-ridden mom). Whatever it was, it didn’t work out for us. That’s why, this second time around I’ve [...]

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How To Boost Your Breast Milk: The Secret of Masa

March 12, 2010

So I’ve been writing a lot about breast milk lately because, frankly, breast feeding is about all I do these days. Man, it takes all day it seems. My housekeeper – one of the most wonderful women in my life – brought me an elixir from an old family recipe to help me increase my [...]

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Adorable Baby Faces

March 9, 2010

You know what cracks me up? You know that face a baby makes when she’s hungry and looking for the boobie? She opens her mouth, wiggles her head as if to ready herself to catch a boob as it flies by her. That head jiggle, that searching tongue. So cute! Of course, that’s before all [...]

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The Magic of Fenugreek for Breast Milk

February 24, 2010

Fenugreek is the miracle breast feeding herb! It’s been taken for centuries to increase breast milk production. In fact, I read that it can increase a woman’s milk production by up to 900% if you can believe that. I’m taking fenugreek now and have definitely noticed an increase in my milk supply, though I’m not [...]

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Increase Your Breast Milk With Mamatini

February 17, 2010

Oh me, oh my, oh Mamatini. Mamatini- what a great name, no? You know you’re in California when your lactation consultant recommends this new herbal drink to increase your milk production. Mine did and, while wary, I thought I’d give it a try. I need all the help I can get with this whole breast [...]

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To Pacify or Not To Pacify?

March 20, 2009

In our house, we decided that a pacifier was the way to go when at two or three months our daughter was having trouble sleeping.  Well, that is an understatement.  She had a witching hour where she screamed her tiny head off of a full hour, if not longer and the only things that calmed [...]

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Have We Become Our Own Wet Nurses?

March 19, 2009

I was reading an article in the New Yorker about breastfeeding and was stunned at the idea that we, as mothers, may becoming our own wet nurses because of the preference of pumping over breastfeeding.  As a mother who had difficulty with breast feeding because my milk had trouble traveling down my milk ducts to [...]

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