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Breastfeeding: The One Year Goal
Everywhere you get information about motherhood, there’s talk about how great breastfeeding is for the first year of the child’s life. When breastfeeding presented as a challenge, but I knew I wanted to keep trying, my goal was to make it to that one year mark. When things were not going well and I was…
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Breastfeeding: When a doctor told me to “just curl my toes in pain”
“Just curl your toes in pain every few days until she gets the hang of it” Yes, the title of this blog post is literally something a doctor, a medical professional, told me. “Just curl your toes in pain every few days until she gets the hang of it,” was said by an ENT when…
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Breastfeeding: What it took to make it work
Breastfeeding is hard. I feel like that sentence could be a complete blog post and it would resonate with so many. Sure breastfeeding may come easy to some, but to many the journey to success is filled with pain, exhaustion, frustration, anger, many lactation appointments and a serious number of Amazon deliveries for needed supplies.…
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Have a Plan, Ignore Plan
I want to start off by saying that, originally, I was not looking forward to breastfeeding. I don’t know what it was but it wasn’t something I thought of as: “Wow, isn’t that magical!” Instead I thought it seemed weird. I don’t know why, I just did. However, despite not connecting with the idea, I…
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The Breastfeeding Privilege
We are saddled with talk about breastfeeding being a mother’s right, and that’s absolutely true. However, where I live, while it’s acknowledged as as right, it honestly feels like more of a privilege. I wanted to make sure that privilege is acknowledged before adding posts about the huge amounts of work that went into my…
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The Not So Golden Hour
When you’re about to embark on the motherhood journey and you’re thinking you’ll give breastfeeding a try, you’ll likely stumble across the “You must nurse your baby within the first hour of their life” advice. The golden hour is highly advertised. It paints a masterpiece of this golden sunrise of new life, complete with heart…
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Welcome
Hello, and welcome to yet another blog all about mothers and their experiences with, well, mommy things. For this blog, for the time being, the primary topic will be breastfeeding and the unbelievably difficult journey that it can be, yet is so very rarely discussed. My name is Katie and I became a mom to…
Mommy Goat 