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I may have said this before, but I really never planned to breastfeed for this long. Really. Even after reading really crunchy, natural parenting magazines. Even after going to LLL meetings. Even after meeting a couple of moms who were still nursing their 3 year olds. I didn’t have any issue with anyone else doing [...]

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I never thought I would breastfeed past a year. I had made a personal commitment to breastfeed for the first year during my pregnancy, and knew whatever I had to do I would find the support I needed to follow through. Perseverance was my key word. It didn’t come as easily as I thought it [...]

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So I’ve been thinking about the big to-do on Twitter about breastfeeding in public. If you don’t tweet, you may or may not have heard about tweeted comments made by a radio host out of LA. He was at a baseball game, saw a woman breastfeed her baby and commented about it using twitter. Basically, [...]

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Today’s show on Expectations Radio was all about the booby traps- the barriers to breastfeeding that many women face, and what we can do individually and together to make a difference. Please share your experience with the “booby traps” and anything you can offer to help other women faced with similar obstacles. You have a [...]

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It seems so obvious now. Why didn’t I trust myself? What was I thinking? I beat myself up a little bit more over this because she is not my first baby, she’s the second. Shouldn’t I know what I’m doing by now? (These are not especially supportive thoughts I’m having…) Night-time parenting is not my [...]

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I’ve been wanting to start a blog for a while. The idea of allowing my thoughts to come out, not necessarily in proper order or even complete is a bit appealing although I’m usually quite the perfectionist. So I’ve decided to begin, even if it’s not ready; even though my website isn’t yet updated; even [...]

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