World Breastfeeding Week 2014
Today is the start of World Breastfeeding Week. Here’s a look at this year’s goals: As a new mother in her 20′s I see the effect that #4 is having. While there is still a lot of bashing (both for…
View ArticleUS National Breastfeeding Month 2014
August is National Breastfeeding Month in the United States, a campaign backed by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health (say that five times fast). Their website has...
View ArticleBattle for Breastfeeding – Part 1
Breastfeeding. Sadly I’ve come to find this one of the most controversial issues out there. If you don’t breastfeed your child you’re a bad mother. If you breastfeed past a certain age you’re weird and...
View ArticleBattle for Breastfeeding – Part 2
Last post the Battle for Breastfeeding had begun and I left off where we had been noted to be ‘potentially difficult parents’ who were not ‘following instructions’. Thankfully this caught the attention...
View Article91st to 3rd
This is one of the hardest things for me to talk about. It was the day we went to the IWK Children’s Hospital for Victoria’s cleft lip repair. We went into the hospital as prepared as we thought we could…
View ArticleJudgement
My last post was a little heavy so I wanted to change it up a bit. Today I want to focus on judgement because it is a big issue. I’m sure many of you have seen those videos and posts…
View ArticlePublic Breastfeeding
I’ve always found public breastfeeding a frustrating topic. There are so many people who feel they have the right to comment on how you’re nourishing your child.Guess what? They don’t. I read a comment...
View ArticleFormula Bashing
As some of you know I am very much pro-breastfeeding. Having said that, I want to share something. At 6 months old I had to switch to my daughter to formula. It was a very hard time for my daughter…
View ArticleBreastfeeding – Take Two
The blog is now a year old and it seems fitting to start this year the same way as the last. Edward (our second) was born this Spring and it turns out breastfeeding is a little different each time....
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