Q&A with Kelly B: Exclusive Pumper

Kelly B, PhD, of Durham, NC, is an engineer in the women’s health field. She gave birth to baby E in June and, for the first four months, was an exclusive pumper while they worked out some latch and flow preference issues. Her story seemed a fitting one to tell during the week that Hurricane . . . → Read More: Q&A with Kelly B: Exclusive Pumper

My Nursling Won’t Take a Bottle

My five-month-old won’t take a bottle. We started doing test runs with him when he was four weeks old, after meeting with our lactation consultant and excitedly discussing his wonderful weight gain (he was 11 pounds at four weeks!!).

The first few times my husband tried giving him a bottle it went well, but . . . → Read More: My Nursling Won’t Take a Bottle

Dear Judy: Thank You For The Extended Breastfeeding Posts

I received this email yesterday from Stephanie Alford, a local mom whom I have interacted with as a client, a friend and a colleague. Receiving her note made me feel so great, that I just had to share it with you.

Judy, I’ve no time to write but I just quickly wanted to . . . → Read More: Dear Judy: Thank You For The Extended Breastfeeding Posts

A Breastfeeding Journey

By Tina B.

My name is Tina and I am married and I have four beautiful children.  I share my testimony because I am so deeply committed to breast feeding and with each baby, I have experienced four unique breast feeding relationships.  My first born (Kristina), now 12 years old, self weaned at 19 . . . → Read More: A Breastfeeding Journey

The Breastfed Toddler

As many of you know, I nursed my son for a very long time. We kind of just followed his cues – with a little nudging along the way. Some of my favorite nursing moments are of when he was a toddler. I was browsing the web this morning and came across this diagram . . . → Read More: The Breastfed Toddler

When Support Isn’t Really Support

I received a comment on one of my blog posts about facebook and photographs that were taken down of breastfeeding moms. I received this comment on January 11th, after I had linked to this blog article on facebook in response to some other “censorship” that facebook had been doing more recently. It took me . . . → Read More: When Support Isn’t Really Support

The Reluctant Nurser

By Vanessa T

I chose this title because it perfectly described my daughter Madeline and me at different times during our pregnancy and breastfeeding journey together. During my pregnancy in 2003, many people asked me if I would breastfeed her and I answered honestly, that I was not yet sure how I would feed . . . → Read More: The Reluctant Nurser