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How to Spend Your Maternity Leave
While pregnant with my first child, I had visions of a decadent maternity leave. The first week, I imagined, I’d probably be a bit sore and tired, so I’d likely sleep a lot and just chill with my...
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Common Root Causes of Supply Concerns
Lots of breastfeeding mothers have concerns about their milk supply, especially if they don’t haveImage sourceclose friends and family members who breastfed to set an example or offer support. If you...
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Let Elomi Elevate Your Enormous Bosom
I’ve always had an ample bosom. That’s not entirely true–I still feel the sting of hurt from eighth grade math class when AJ slid a calculator across the table and it said “BOOBLESS.” I sure showedLook...
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Sorting Kids’ Seasonal Wardrobes
I need some pointers. I’ve finally reached a point where my bins of kids’ clothes are not organized, where I have no idea if anyone has pants that fit, and what to do with all the extra stuff that...
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Experimenting with Baby-Led Weaning
My last baby turned six months old and couldn’t wait to eat some solid food. He’d been reaching for our foods, imitating us eating, and generally freaking out during meals because he wasn’t doing the...
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Leaving Little Ones with Grandparents Overnight
Have you ever spent the night apart from your little ones? I first left my oldest son home with Daddy when I had to travel for a conference. My baby was 8 months old, and that was the longest 48 hours...
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Timing a Workout Around a Nursling
Once again, it’s marathon season in Pittsburgh and a friend has convinced me to start training for the relay race even though I have a tiny nursling at home. Ok, he’s anything but tiny–but he’s young...
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What Do You Personalize?
I love personalized items. My son has a unique name, so anytime I can do a custom personalization for him, I do it! That way he can have a shirt with his name on it or some other personalized item that...
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Pumping in Public: Harassment at the Theater
I’m pretty good at advocating for myself as a breastfeeding mother. I have a lot of years of experience at this, I know my rights, and I’m very resourceful. However, something happened to me this...
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On the Road Again! This Mom’s Tips for Peaceful Driving
You know what’s hard about living far from family? The road trips to go visit my family. I mean, other than being apart from my family…I just took my boys to visit grandparents for spring break, but...
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Mother’s Day Contest
Join us on Pinterest and Facebook and be entered to win our best selling Nursing Support Cami!!Happy Mother’s Day mamas!!
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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
My friend’s 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 breastmilk for...
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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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