Soft Strength.

We have all grown up in a world where softness is symbiotic with weakness. Our society sees soft people as meak, vulnerable, lazy even. We grew up with grandmothers who lived on coffee and cigarettes well into their eighties in order to keep their wedding day size. We have tried all the diets; grapefruit, juice [...]

Weaning: The End of an Era

I’m done. Fully, 100% done pumping forevah (for now)! The idea of breastfeeding for another year makes me cringe and may be one of the biggest reasons I am definitely with Taylor in putting off on having a third baby for at least another year or so. I haven’t had my body to myself since [...]

Irresponsible Advocacy.

We all have things we feel strongly about and want to share with others. For me, breastfeeding, birth education, and cloth diapering are aspects of parenting that are I think are so wonderful. I try to share information with friends (who ask) and on my blog to help other mamas make the best decisions for [...]

Pumping, six months later.

I’ve been exclusively breastfeeding Arlo for about nine months now (in a couple weeks!). I’ve been pumping for six of those months. In case you weren’t a reader when I first started pumping, Arlo quit nursing at four-months-old. Every nursing session was a battle where we both ended in tears. I finally tossed in the [...]

Pumpkin Lactation “Bread”

Remember last Christmas with the two ingredient pumpkin bread recipes were floating around the interwebz? It was all over Pinterest, and my friend Blair at Wild and Precious turned it into something super yummy looking here. Well, last night I got a craving for it. It’s made from a box of cake mix and a [...]

The Pumping Chronicals.

I wrote a little while ago that Arlo was refusing to nurse. I wish I could say that has changed, but it hasn’t. Never an “interested” nurser, Arlo was slow from the get-go. He would fall asleep nursing. He would fight the breast. He would scream if I wasn’t holding him just so for a [...]

Mastisis is a big, fat bitch.

I woke up yesterday morning at about 3:00AM feeling kinda weird. My right boob ached, but I figured it was just from going a little longer than usually without nursing on that side because Arlo slept from 8:00PM to 3:00AM. Awesome. No biggie. Got up around 7:30AM feeling weirder. I kept saying to Taylor, “You [...]

So, you want to know how I do it?

I asked if any of you had questions for me on Facebook and Twitter today. Cloth diapering, breastfeeding, military related, etc. Or, just how am I so awesome? I know y’all want to know that. But seriously, I got some great questions from some lovely ladies that I remember asking myself not so long ago. [...]

Breastfeeding IS fashionable.

Welcome to a new series dreamed up by Blair at Wild & Precious. Blair and I were sorority sisters at the same college, so we go way back. She is a doll baby and has the sweetest little girl, Magnolia. Magnolia was born on the same day as Arlo (arranged marriage, perhaps?). So, Blair and [...]

Power to the Boobs

Disclaimer: If you just Googled “Boobs” in hope to catch a glipse…you’re out of luck. Seriously, I knew that breastfeeding changed your boobs because duh, they are now producing milk. But I’ve always heard, “It’s not breastfeeding that makes your boobs different looking…it’s pregnancy.” Well, all I have to say is, “Liar, liar, pants on [...]

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