Results tagged “breastfeeding” from Momtourage: Blogger Knows Best
Sherry Davey
My gal pal has breast fed her new baby girl for the first 6 months of her life and now she is switching to formula (and still pumping) because she's going back to work...unless you know of a great wet nurse. That could be the new recession proof career! She feels so guilty about not being able to nurse for at least 18 months as she did her first two however, I say she's lucky to have had this time with her. With the current male-cession (it's mostly men out of work), women are putting in longer and longer days. It feels like years since any of my friends have been able to breast feed longer than 6 weeks. Nevertheless, the baby is experiencing nipple confusion so mom is feeling even guiltier about her decision. I keep reminding her, you do what you can when you can. Just think, if she stays home from work and loses her job then she and the baby can spend endless hours starig into each others eyes.....in the park....in their tent....'cause they'll be homeless. Do what you can when you can ladies and when you can't, there's always Dr.Browns. Anybody have any other bottles to recommend for nipple confusion??.....my husband still suffers from it. (ha ha)
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When you think of getting stopped at the border or pulled aside by airport security, what sorts of violations do you think of? Drugs? Contraband sausage? Breast pump? Breast milk?
Wait, what? Not those last two? Obviously, you're not Canadian, or haven't brought your lactating boobs to Canada. Because apparently, breast pumps and breast milk are, according to Canadian authorities, suspicious items that you can't just waltz across the border with. God, no. What if you were going to make a lacto-bomb with that stuff? The terrorists would win.
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by Morra Aarons Mele
One of the hardest things about being a new parent is the urgent and intense sense that the world you're bringing your child into is a mess, it's partially your fault, and you can't do anything about it. Put aside the deficit for a second. How will my baby cope with the seemingly limitless amount of toxins he passively ingests every day?
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Today I piloted my "Pump-in-Style" breast pump backpack outside the house. I went to a small industry meeting to network and meet potential employers in my field.
Packing up the pump was easy enough. But then I had to carry it into the meeting. I felt self-conscious. Would the telltale nylon backpack let everyone know I was pumping? If so, why did I care? Would people take me less seriously? How would I slip away to pump in a small room of executives? Why was I embarrassed about this, as if I were doing something dirty?
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It seems that Theo has weaned. Every so often, I give it one last shot, just to make ABSOLUTELY sure that he has completely and irrevocably sworn off the boob. "Oh, come on," I'll say, offering him the breast just one more time. He has humoured me by half-heartedly latching on for a few seconds before squirming away. And then, last week, he took my nipple between thumb and forefinger, inspected my breast carefully, and said, "Ball." And asked to read Goodnight Moon.
So, we're done.
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Sherry Davey
Finally, a Hollywood actress is doing more with her breasts than just flaunting them on the red carpet.....and people are upset? I generally don't write about celebrities unless they're doing something monstrously stupid or ridiculously funny because let's face it: they're over exposed; completely boring; unimportant; narcisstic; and mostly irrelevant. However, this story really has me intrigued. Apparently, Selma Hayek, was in Sierra Leone and breastfed a malnourished baby boy....whom she's not related to.....(pause)....okay. Sounds good to me....right? Sounds like she may have even saved the baby's life. So.....isn't that a good thing? Haven't people ever heard of wet nurses? Wouldn't you share your breast milk with a starving baby? I don't see a problem.
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Well, hell--go, Selma!
So Selma Hayek decided to take a moment and feed another woman's child. Go her, say I. Why? Because that child needed milk, and probably won't ever again in his life have the quality of nutrition she stopped to provide him.
Is it a political statement? Maybe. But only in the sense that motherhood is political. Which it is. Most definitely.
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Sherry Davey
So, I went off to the store today to buy a gift for my friend's new baby. It's her second so she really didn't need anything besides diapers, wipes and new bottles. She asked me to pick up ones that were BPA free. Now I remember a few months ago all the hullabaloo over harmful chemicals in plastic baby bottles and pacifiers from China.....remember when the worst thing you get could get from the Chinese was MSG??....any rate, so off I went to Babys'R'Us to be confused and overwhelmed......
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by Rita Arens
When my daughter was born in 2004, I was all prepared to breastfeed. I had the bags, I had the pump. I wasn't psyched about it, but I wanted to do anything I could to ensure she had the best in life. I knew that was breastfeeding. So I asked my doctor for the absolute smallest "good" window. My doctor looked at me like I was nuts, stammered around for a while, then said six weeks. I don't know if he pulled that number out of the air or out of a medical book. I've never heard anyone ask that question before: Probably because it's so loaded.
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Sherry Davey
Celebrate Mother's Day Weekend with MAMA'S NIGHT OUT.
Just wanted to let you know that the hilarious comedy show (if I do say so myself) MAMA'S NIGHT OUT is coming to the Avalon Theatre, Easton, MD this Friday for a special Mother's Day weekend show. See here for more details.
MAMA'S NIGHT OUT is comedy by mothers for everyone.
Sherry Davey
We babysat our 4 month old god son, Andrew, on Sunday. It's only been a few years since Lily required constant carrying but wow have baby slings come a long way! Now Lily was an enormous baby. She weighed 9.5 pounds at birth (born naturally by the way - hey drugs are natural - 17 stitches later thank you very much) and was 13 pounds by the end of her first month. I remember one of my aunts gave me a sling at my baby shower. She kept saying, "I first saw this in Guatemala, all the women down there use them." To which I replied, "Great, I'll remember that when I'm picking coffee beans in Brooklyn."
I always thought they looked a bit dodgy. The one my aunt gave me didn't look particularly strong enough to hold my little butter ball. It was like a sheet with a clip on it and the whole 'one clip' thing didn't thrill me safety wise. And quite honestly, our ΓΌber baby was so heavy I couldn't imagine the positioning of her weight being beneficial to my back. I also wasn't thrilled with the fact that slings looked like a lot of work. One minute it's a sheet with a clip the next it's a bandanna. I was never good at making beds I still can't get my corners to look like sails so how could I possibly handle the sheet thing every day. I'm sure there are millions of women who use them and the benefits they get from them are innumerable. Good, good for them. As we say in Brooklyn, "I'm just saying."
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Sherry Davey
My mom breastfed me and she drank too. So technically, I had my first White Russian when I was just six hours old. No wonder I always slept through the night.
I've talked about this before but it's worth revisiting. It still amazes me how much guilt is heaped on women who don't breastfeed. I was at a parents meeting at Lily's school earlier today. One of the mothers was feeding her newborn a bottle during the meeting. The woman was quietly feeding the baby in the back of the room. If it weren't for the stroller I wouldn't have even known she was there.
One of the parents association volunteers went up to the woman and whispered loud enough for all of us to hear (I guess she wanted everyone to know how considerate or p.c. she is), "If you need to breastfeed you can go in the next room."
The mother responded with, "No thanks, we're fine here."
Then another parents association yenta piped in with, "She doesn't breast feed?! What's wrong with her?" If jumping to conclusions were an olympic sport this woman would definitely take the gold.
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