Tag: parenting
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Last day of pumping. What an emotional moment.
June 28, 2023 at 2:10pm was my last day of pumping out breastmilk. Rules allowed pumping until the 18th month, and for months I knew that date was coming closer and closer. I don’t know why I felt the need to pump that long since most people stop at 12 months, but it seemed like…
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Pumping: Pump Bra Haikus
My child has been keeping me really busy lately so I haven’t been able to build up a stock of nursing posts. However, I’ve got some in the works so next week should be back to normal. For now, here are some haikus about how much I dislike pump bras. Pump bra you are badI…
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Breastfeeding: Grief In A Milk Bag
Until I became a mom I never quite knew the things that could make me become an emotional slobbering mess. Most recently it was a bag of frozen breastmilk. Not just any frozen bag of breast milk, but the last of the “baby milk” that had been stashed away. You know what I’m talking about,…
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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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