Did you know that ya’ll ask some really good questions? Questions that force me to examine myself. Questions that make me want to write A LOT and then make me feel too intimidated to try. Because they are GOOD questions. And I don’t always have answers. But I always have opinions! Here is one I’ve …
Extended Breastfeeding Myth #3
This is really embarrassing but it’s time to put it out there: I just quit sucking my thumb last year. Okay, not really, but let’s just say that I was a thumb sucker until way, way, WAY past the normal window for that behavior. I’m mentioning this because today we are tackling myth number three …
Extended Breastfeeding Myth #2
Last week I covered Myth #1 in my series about extended breastfeeding misconceptions, so it’s time to move on to #2. Here’s the email I received that inspired me to write these posts: What are your psychological reasons for continuing to nurse Katie? I’m asking because we were discussing this topic last week in my …
Extended Breastfeeding Myth #1
One night Daniel and I were having dinner with our crunchiest of crunchy friends. My friend Cindy, who is still nursing her 19 month old son was talking about a recent comment someone made to her. How long are you going to breastfeed that boy? Till he’s in high school? Are you going to go …
Two questions and an insult
Katie and I had an interesting conversation at Sunflower Shoppe today. It went like this: “Mommy, where’s daddy?” “At work” “Where’s Daddy’s car?” “At work with Daddy” “Where’s Gigi?” “At work” “Where’s mommy?” Smiling: “I don’t know. Where is mommy?” “At work? NOOOO! Mommy doesn’t work!” Ahem. I was asked two other questions today that …
Random Advice Woman on Nursing a Toddler
Random Advice Woman was not actually expecting a question but received one anyway. Yipee! How do you have the resolve to do it for so long? For some reason, I am not digging breastfeeding this time around and I have no idea why?! It’s only been 6 weeks, how am I going to last another …
Random Advice Woman
Hello, my name is Random Advice Woman. You see me on the street and stop to ask my advice. Why? Because at the moment I look like I know what I’m doing and you want a tip. That’s cool. The only problem is, I’m pretty sure you don’t want my advice. Not really.
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