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Tandem Breastfeeding

By Christine Gilbert I have a secret. I’m still breastfeeding my three-year-old son, along with his three-month-old sister. They call it tandem breastfeeding, but they might as well call it...

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High Needs Mother

By Lynn Shattuck After my first son Max was born, I wanted answers. My little red-faced infant wanted to nurse every twenty minutes. He woke up six or more times a night. The ‘quiet alert’ phase that...

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Weaning Ella

By Jill Christman My daughter Ella was just over two on the morning of her last breastfeeding. She’d stumbled in from her own room around five a.m., as usual, scrambled up into our bed, and latched on....

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Now I Mother From a Distance

By Dina L. Relles It is dark and still. The single lamp casts a warm glow on the orange walls. His tiny hand wrapped in mine; his chest rhythmically rises and falls with each breath, nearly lulling me...

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Doctors’ Rounds

By Anna Blackmon Moore About five months after giving birth to my son Ian, I noticed muscle pain in the front of my pelvis—tight discs of soreness just above my thighs and just below my hipbones that I...

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Bedsharer’s Lament

By Olivia Campbell If only you’d given birth to the kind of babies you can lay down anywhere after they fall asleep, and they stay asleep.   With a finally passed-out 17-month-old on your shoulder, you...

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Nursing Porn

By Sara Levine It came in the mail, unrequested, and it was called Nurse-a-rama (not it’s real name). On the cover was a woman in a mandarin collar blouse smiling down at her nursing baby, who was very...

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When Nature Fails Nurture

By Maria Kostaki I hated breastfeeding. Not because it hurt. Not because… I can’t think of another reason normal women don’t like breastfeeding, but not because it hurt. A few minutes after my son was...

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Ten Types of Breastfeeding Moms on Social Media

By Jinny Koh   As if breastfeeding isn’t tough enough, now, thanks to social media, it is easy to feel stressed when you see perfect babies milking their perfect mommies on blogs and Instagram. To help...

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Good Enough

By Katherine Dykstra My son, slapped red and squinty and no bigger than a sack of flour, was curled up on my chest, panting, shocked by light and air and breath. My husband Parker stood over us, tears...

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Why I Pump in a Storage Closet at Work

By Marjke Yatsevitch While many support the idea of pumping at work, the world of the nursing mother is still happening in a shadowy corner.   The recliner sits in the corner of a storage closet,...

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When I Said Goodbye to Nursing

By Jennifer Berney Some months ago, after enduring four hours of dental surgery, my toddler emerged from anesthesia groggy and pissed off. He punched at my ear and my jaw as I carried him to the car,...

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One and Two

By Sara Petersen I am thirty-seven weeks pregnant with One. I rock gently back and forth in my wicker rocking chair, enjoying the lazy summer heat, and sipping my thoughtfully mixed smoothie. I squint...

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Milk and Cake

By Sarah Bousquet Last week it occurred to me, I’ve stopped counting my daughter’s age in months. It wasn’t a conscious decision. It just tapered off, which I suppose is typical after age two. This...

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Doctors’ Rounds

By Anna Blackmon Moore About five months after giving birth to my son Ian, I noticed muscle pain in the front of my pelvis—tight discs of soreness just above my thighs and just below my hipbones that I...

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Bedsharer’s Lament

By Olivia Campbell If only you’d given birth to the kind of babies you can lay down anywhere after they fall asleep, and they stay asleep.   With a finally passed-out 17-month-old on your shoulder, you...

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Nursing Porn

By Sara Levine It came in the mail, unrequested, and it was called Nurse-a-rama (not it’s real name). On the cover was a woman in a mandarin collar blouse smiling down at her nursing baby, who was very...

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Ten Types of Breastfeeding Moms on Social Media

By Jinny Koh   As if breastfeeding isn’t tough enough, now, thanks to social media, it is easy to feel stressed when you see perfect babies milking their perfect mommies on blogs and Instagram. To help...

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Good Enough

By Katherine Dykstra My son, slapped red and squinty and no bigger than a sack of flour, was curled up on my chest, panting, shocked by light and air and breath. My husband Parker stood over us, tears...

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Why I Pump in a Storage Closet at Work

By Marjke Yatsevitch While many support the idea of pumping at work, the world of the nursing mother is still happening in a shadowy corner.   The recliner sits in the corner of a storage closet,...

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