peace. love & breastfeeding | it isn't just for hippies
Saying breastfeeding has an anti-feminism slant baffles me. One time a “doctor” told me, “There is too much pressure on women today to breastfeed.” He continued on by telling me, “Letting him...
View ArticleWhy I'm Not Going to Read the TIME Cover Article
You know the one I mean--the one with a picture of a woman breastfeeding a three year old on the cover with the caption "Are You MOM Enough?" The article/magazine cover first came to my attention last...
View ArticleWe're All Mom Enough
A week ago, my friend and business partner Dionna of Code Name: Mama called me up excitedly and said TIME Magazine was looking for attachment parenting families who wanted to participate in a photo...
View ArticleAthena's take on the Time magazine cover is one of the better ones, no?
Athena is kind of like a National Geographic photographer. She quietly goes through the house taking pictures of unsuspecting people to catch them in their natural habitat. Sometimes that means you're...
View Article"Isn't she a little big to be nursing still?"
That's the question we're starting to hear as Zofia nears 2 years old. 2 year old Zofia HAPPILY nursing on the slide as photographed by her 4 year old sister.Want more pictures by Athena? Go here and...
View ArticleToddler Moms Debunk Extended Breastfeeding Myths
Breastfeeding moms of toddlers respond to common breastfeeding misconceptions about nursing past infancy:Myth: Breastfeeding will ruin your boobs!Truth: Your breasts will inflate through your pregnancy...
View ArticleNo Nursing Manners For Us, Thanks
As Dylan becomes a toddler, his nursing is getting more physically chaotic. He’s wigglier. He kicks. He fidgets with his hands. Lately he’ll nurse from one boob for 5 seconds, then switch, then back...
View ArticleHello World Breastfeeding Week!
I never anticipated how much time I would spend talking about my boobs once I became a mother.Nursing L discreetly at 3 months. She never liked being under the cover...It honestly never occurred to me....
View ArticleMammaries or Mommaries? A Lesson in Modern Misogyny
This is normally not something I will comment on, but I wrote this for another blog and thought I’d share it here. This isn’t just a parenting issue. I feel it affects all women!In the nanny world, you...
View ArticleBreastfeeding a Toddler
My youngest is 13 months old and "still" breastfeeding. It's not as if I expected him to suddenly stop when he turned one. I also don't have any intention of cutting him off at some arbitrary and...
View ArticleMy Parenting Bubble
I thought I lived in a pretty average suburb of Washington DC - but no. Apparently, I live in a bubble.It's a comfortable, gentle, accepting sort of bubble, and inside it everyone I know either feels...
View ArticleWomen, Their Breasts, and the Power of Choice
From time to time my writings and blog posts are found when an innocent (yeah, right) Googler types in the words “big breastfeeding boobies”. I need not tell you how much I revel in those misdirected...
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