Hey Mommypotamus! I’d like you to write about your view on breastfeeding (including tandem) and how a lot of WAPF members have differing opinions on the subject. I know, for me, this is a hot topic. I do not agree that the homemade formula is better than human milk and I believe in full term …
How To Spot Tongue/Lip Ties & Get FREE Expert Advice
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher Yesterday I smiled at a a green-eyed blonde in gorgeous leather riding boots while wiping a Charlie Chaplin-style snot mustache from Micah’s lip. Wait! I forgot to tell …
Why Our Mothers Shouldn’t Have Listened To Theirs
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ~ Dr. Benjamin Spock I don’t know about you, but I think this quote is a tad more compelling than a 1950′s era Similac Ash tray touting the disease preventing capabilities of formula. But maybe you had to be there. Indeed, if you were you’d …
3 Reasons I Love Breastfeeding My Toddler
So, I Have This Friend . . . Who had to take her 15 month-old hunk of chubby goodness – also known as Myles – in for blood tests. Explaining needles was not all that effective so there was, um, struggling. And crying. And a frantic search for the breast – which of course my …
Hug A Breastfeeding Mom!
Petri Dish Tested, Mother Nature Approved The first week of October is World Breastfeeding Week in Canada. All across the country people will be celebrating all that breastfeeeding offers to babies, mothers, families, communities, and our planet. What Mother Nature has always known – that breast is best – we now know from the enormous …
Breastfed Baby, Stick Around For the Show ~ An Interview With Lactivist Mae Burke
Do you know why these lions look so satisfied? ↓ I do. Let’s just say there was a lot of blushing going on as parents ushered their children toward other exhibits. But oh, the reaction was nothing compared to the outrage over by the monkey exhibit. “Oh my goodness, that monkey is nursing! Somebody put …
Micah’s First Perfect Latch
Micah is happily giving Sophie the Giraffe a tour of our hotel room floor as I type this. Just now he stopped by to pull up on my leg and give me a grin, and I can’t help but wonder . . . did he REALLY have surgery just an hour ago??? When they took …
Lip Tie Q&A
What does THIS LITTLE BUGABOO . . . Have in common with this little lady . . . And this little dude? They all have lip ties, of course. As we fly out this morning for Micah’s surgery I am thinking of these two sweet babes and others whose mama’s I have chatted with in …
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