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Emotional Diapering
My wee babe is a pretty avid eater, which is super new to me because my five-year-old and two-year-old still don’t really eat food. They live on zest and vinegar, it seems. But the baby will chomp down...
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When Giving Feels Like Receiving
One of my friends’ pregnancy overlapped mine by a few months and, after my baby was born, I said, “Please let me know if something happens and you need any milk!” And I meant it. I had abundant...
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Chomp Remix: Another Biting Baby
Lately, I’ve been rereading old blog posts I wrote about my second son, who bit me terribly. I remembered him biting me as a young baby, but must have blocked out his biting streak around a year old. I...
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Coping with Bottle Refusal
My second son never took a bottle. He just wouldn’t do it, and so for a year, I was never away from him for more than 2 hours. That was exhausting! Instead of going away to daycare while I worked...
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Special “Dates” with Each Child
Since having my third son, it’s become increasingly difficult for me to get in any quality time with each of my boys as individuals. I think the very hardest part of having multiple children is this...
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Sleeping Arrangements to Maximize Family Sleep
I must begin by telling you I have not really slept for 6 years. If your kids sleep through the night, you might think this entire post is insane.When I was pregnant with my first and we visited some...
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Racing to My Nursling
I did it! I completed a leg of the Pittsburgh Marathon Relay just 8 months postpartum from my third kiddo. Last time I did a physical challenge like this, I was exactly one year postpartum from my...
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Changing Up My Nursing Routine with Podcasts
Could you read while you were nursing your babies? My friends tell me all about the books and magazines they read while nursing. I’m not quite sure how this is possible, because nursing is a two-hand...
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5 Things You Need for Your Second (or Third…) Son
I’ve got 3 boys. By the time I was pregnant with my third son, I ran out of things to say when kind relatives asked me what I needed for the baby. So I thought about it and here are the essentials we...
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Moms Who Wait: Motherhood in Late 30s
According to the CDC, the average American woman is 26 years old when she delivers her first child. The same data tells us that, increasingly, women aged 35-39 are becoming pregnant for the first time....
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Beat the Heat: Tips for Summer Pregnancy
My first and third sons were born in late summer, which is great now that they are here because we always have nice weather for birthday parties. But my goodness, when I was pregnant in the heat and...
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Making Space for Romance with Young Babies at Home
Strangers sometimes ask me when I’m going to have another baby, because strangers ask inappropriate questions like this all the time. I usually laugh at them, because who has time to conceive another...
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On the Move…with Kids
My husband and I have been searching for a larger home since we found out we were expecting our third son. We live in a 1,000 square foot house in Pittsburgh, so while I know people certainly have...
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Celebrating Each Other
We did it! We went on 2/3 of a date for our anniversary. We almost didn’t do anything to celebrate, since we’d had a wonderful weekend together as a family and we’re neck-deep preparing our house to...
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Special Delivery: Transporting My Placenta
I had unplanned cesarean sections for all three of my births. With my first son, my placenta got whisked away and I never got to see it, which I only realized afterward was something I felt very...
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On Sale Now! $39.00 The Blake Nursing Top by Annee Matthew
As moms, we often work hard to assemble our outfits for the right occasion or function. As nursing moms, we also have to consider whether our outfits allow us to nurse our child easily, yet still look...
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Cup Feeding: An Alternative to the Bottle
“My baby won’t take a bottle!” How many of us have had this experience, where we prepare to return to work and our nursing babe just won’t accept an artificial nipple? It’s frustrating. It makes...
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New Life for Old Breast Pumps
My baby is about 10 months old, which means I’m about 2 months away from being done pumping my breastmilk. I look forward to this phase of life with great anticipation, because pumping sucks. It just...
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Is My Baby Self Weaning?
“I think my baby wants to wean. He gets upset when I offer the breast.” “My baby only nurses for a second and then pops off. I think she prefers solid food.” We hear many mothers of babies around 7 to...
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Milk Myths Busted!
Breastfeeding moms have information flying at us from all directions, and it’s hard to separate evidence-based information from anecdotal evidence, especially when people we care about seem to speak...
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