I'd like everyone to meet Jenny! She is a rock star in the breastfeeding world! 1. Tell us about your personal breastfeeding experience with your children: My daughter joined our family via adoption when she was 10 months old. I had followed the Newman-Goldfarb Protocols for Induced Lactation (www.asklenore.info/breastfeeding/induced_lactation/gn_protocols.shtml) for the previous 12 months so that I’d be able to breastfeed her. I amazed both my husband and myself when I was able to … [Read more...]
Men Can Breastfeed?!
August 6, 2011 | 12 Comments
I wanted to end World Breastfeeding Week with a futuristic thought of breastfeeding....kind of. How do you feel about men breastfeeding? Not possible? Not true. There is actually scholarly literature on the subject! Male Lactation by Professor Patty Stuart Macadam of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto (Compleat Mother, Fall, 1996, Volume 43). Male breasts have milk ducts. Men also produce oxytocin and prolactin, the hormones you need to produce milk. This … [Read more...]
Adoptive Breastfeeding
July 23, 2011 | 4 Comments
Here is another "Magical Milk" picture, but I need to find another title. I am not wanting to rip off Christine's great weekly post. Any other catchy title's that are as happy as "Magical Milk?" I'd love suggestions. But anyway, here is my latest blog-worthy nursing photo: My friend nursing her two-year-old Ethiopian daughter. Beautiful Picture! You will learn more of her story, soon! It is AMAZING. … [Read more...]
Breastfeeding Rant
July 6, 2011 | 11 Comments
I am most stressed out breastfeeding in public when I'm at church. I rarely nurse in public now that Aram is getting older and self-weaning, but I still think about my past negative experiences. It started when Aram was about 18 months old. I would enter the 'mother's nursing room' (specifically designed for mothers to breastfeed) and every single mother is wearing a cover. I always thought the point of the room was so you didn't have to wear a cover (not that I do when … [Read more...]
Breastfeeding An Adopted Older Child
June 17, 2011 | 21 Comments
I'd like everyone to meet Jenny! She is a rock star in the breastfeeding world! 1. Tell us about your personal breastfeeding experience with your children: My daughter joined our family via adoption when she was 10 months old. I had followed the Newman-Goldfarb Protocols for Induced Lactation (www.asklenore.info/breastfeeding/induced_lactation/gn_protocols.shtml) for the previous 12 months so that I’d be able to breastfeed her. I amazed both my husband and myself when I was able to … [Read more...]
