Breastfeeding in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

November 18, 2012 | 6 Comments
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In many cases you can breastfeed your NICU baby. Certainly, pump your breastmilk until baby is able to latch. In some cases mom (or dad) can hold baby on her chest. For example, in cases of jaundice, place a bili-blanket underneath your baby on your chest and shine lights on both mom and baby. You may need to advocate with your doctors or nurses in order to be able to do this. Having regular consultations with a lactation consultant may help. If/when you are able to breastfeed your baby, your … [Read more...]

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Breastfeeding and Bullying

November 9, 2012 | 8 Comments
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To put things into perspective I want to first start by showing you a photo of what kind of ignorance and hate awaited kindergarten student Ruby Bridges at school: Ruby was the first black student at the formerly all white public school. Her family was taking a stand. … Mama had taught us about God, that he is always there to protect us. “Ruby Nell,” she said as we pulled up to my new school, “don’t be afraid. There might be some people upset outside, but I’ll be with … [Read more...]

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Breastfeeding, It’s Like Eating Brussels Sprouts

October 30, 2012 | 10 Comments
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There was recently a discussion about how we need to stop talking about the research on the benefits of breastfeeding so that we don’t make mothers who can’t breastfeed feel guilty...   Sure, we’ll just idly stand by while formula companies continue to market to women who are capable and willing to breastfeed or parents in areas of the world without access to safe drinking water. -A Generation On: Baby milk marketing still putting children’s lives at risk, Save the … [Read more...]

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How I decided to start a Boobment

August 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment
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This is a guest post for iamnotthebabysitter.com. We encourage voices of all mothers on the topics discussed on this blog. The views and opinions may not be those of iamnotthebabysitter.com, but we encourage and welcome respectful debate and the opinions of all mothers. I often sit back and reflect on the early days of my son’s life. If I had the chance, I would do things similarly but with understanding and more patience.   Dear son, I am sorry, for not knowing then what I … [Read more...]

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Tips for Breastfeeding Your Newborn Baby

August 29, 2012 | 3 Comments
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As a breastfeeding mom, I read Jessica Stockton Clancy's crib sheet interview of Pat Shelly (RN, MA, IBCLC) with great interest. So much of breastfeeding success is tied to having education at the outset as well as finding support once you begin to feed your baby. Taking the pressure off of the thought of “failure,” and learning it is no failure at all as long as your child is getting fed, was part of the reason I feel our own breastfeeding journey worked out more smoothly than it would have … [Read more...]

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5 Must-Haves for an Over-supply of Milk

August 25, 2012 | 3 Comments
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 This is a guest post for iamnotthebabysitter.com. We encourage voices of all mothers on the topics discussed on this blog. The views and opinions may not be those of iamnotthebabysitter.com, but we encourage and welcome respectful debate and opinions of all mothers. More and more pregnant women are determined to breastfeed and diligently do their research before baby arrives. I attended La Leche League meetings, read several books, many articles and planned a natural birth with a supportive … [Read more...]

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Public Breastfeeding Conversations

August 16, 2012 | 18 Comments
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Yesterday I went to the UPS store to mail a double breast pump and breastfeeding loot to a local friend, and also the infamous TIME issue to a friend in Spain who never could find a copy and wanted to read the article.   I tried to hide the cover until I had to give it to the postman to mail. He picked it up and weighed it while Aram walked up to read the numbers on the scale. The man saw the cover of the magazine had been written on (I had crossed out the “Mom Enough” tagline and … [Read more...]

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The Start of Our Multigenerational AP Family

August 14, 2012 | 12 Comments
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People have been asking my mom lately how and why she became a breastfeeding advocate in the 1980s. It was due to lack of support and misguided information in the 1970s that led her to follow her instincts when she had me in the late 1980s.   My parents had my brother and sister in their early 20s when my dad was pre-med (studying to be an OB) at UC Berkeley. It was the 1970s and things were different back then. My mother parented my sister and brother conventionally (feeling … [Read more...]

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Our Experience with TIME

August 7, 2012 | 98 Comments
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I am often asked by my close friends and by people I have met through this process exactly how we ended up on the TIME cover. Like I said in the previous post, now that the dust has settled and I am left with the people who are reading this blog to be a part of a community, I feel comfortable opening up and explaining what happened from our perspective. We initially were contacted through TIME via e-mail. (There is a rumor that TIME did a casting call. I have no idea if this is true or not, … [Read more...]

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Attachment Parenting, Sex, and Marriage

July 31, 2012 | 60 Comments
Yep, that is Brian n a (very small) shower. Finding visual aids to compliment the topic of this post ended up being a bit of a challenge.

Brian requested that I write a post about sex because it bugs him that the majority of society doesn’t understand “attachment parenting” and makes assumptions about the sex lives of the parents who practice attachment parenting. When I starting writing this post, I questioned: Why would other people feel it is in their place to comment on other’s sex lives when they know nothing about it? I believe that the madonna-whore complex that we suffer from here in the West supports a … [Read more...]

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