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Lessons Learned in Feeding My NICU Baby
I was clueless about newborn care when I had my daughter. In my defense, I thought I had 15 more weeks to educate myself on such things as diapering, sleeping, and that hot topic of feeding. I can...
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Breastfeeding and Traveling Away From Baby
Breast feeding all three of my babies was labor of love. For me, breastfeeding was not easy and it was only due to sheer determination that kept me going, especially when it was time to go back to...
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Postpartum SHOCKERS!
I hope I’m not breaking some sort of woman code here, but there a few things my friends and I have experienced that might have been glossed over in the pregnancy and childbirth books. (Or maybe I...
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Easy Access: Dressing for Nursing
Once I was finally able to juggle the car seat, stroller, and packing a diaper bag to get out of the house with my newborn for more than an hour at a time, I came across a new challenge: what do I...
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So You Want Me to Nurse in a Dressing Room. Really Target?!?
I have a bone to pick with Target, so brace yourselves pussycats because it’s about to get real. But first I have to confess that to think anything negative about Target – much less declare it...
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A Field Guide to Satisfying Your Postnatal Sweet Tooth in Boerne
Here’s a fact that is now as foreign to me as it is true: I used to eat salads for dessert. Sometimes I would even round out my meal with an extra serving of roasted brussels sprouts or foccacia bread...
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Perspectives on Parenting: Why it was important to me to nurse
Motherhood comes with a host of choices to make about what is best for you, your family, and your child. We at Alamo City Moms Blog have a variety of moms who want to embrace these choices instead of...
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Perspectives on Parenting: In support of formula-feeding
Motherhood comes with a host of choices to make about what is best for you, your family, and your child. We at Alamo City Moms Blog have a variety of moms who want to embrace these choices instead of...
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Sometimes nursing isn’t enough
I took all the classes. I read all the books and blogs I could get my hands on. I sought advice from moms who had exclusively breastfed their children for over a year. I was prepared and determined...
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How to Successfully Nurse, Pump, & Work Full-Time
Can your nursing relationship survive while working full-time? Yes, it is possible! I breastfed for a total of 4 years, which includes 12 months of pumping, while serving full-time in the United...
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Lactation Law 101
It seems like yesterday that I was dealing with it: still in a postpartum haze, picking up my briefcase, and heading back to the office a mere 12 weeks after my first daughter was born. I had a snazzy...
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Diary of a Perpetual Pumper
My sister had her first baby two months before I did, so I guess you could say I got a front row seat to really understand how this whole “breastfeeding” thing worked. She could literally do her...
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The Real World of Breastfeeding
When I do the math, I’ve been pregnant or nursing for the last 11 years. My routine was to nurse a baby for a year, and then get pregnant. My sister had her first baby about 6 months before I had my...
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Extended Breastfeeding: The Normal Behind Nursing an Older Child
As a lactation consultant, childbirth educator and doula, I rarely discussed how long I breastfed. Students and clients knew I’d passed American Academy of Pediatrics [AAP] and the World Health...
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Me and My Little Man: A Story of Weaning My Baby
For all that is written on the subject of beginning that ultimate bonding relationship with your baby known as breastfeeding, I feel like precious little space is devoted to detailing what happens...
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Postpartum SHOCKERS!
I hope I’m not breaking some sort of woman code here, but there a few things my friends and I have experienced that might have been glossed over in the pregnancy and childbirth books. (Or maybe I...
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Easy Access: Dressing for Nursing
Once I was finally able to juggle the car seat, stroller, and packing a diaper bag to get out of the house with my newborn for more than an hour at a time, I came across a new challenge: what do I...
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So You Want Me to Nurse in a Dressing Room. Really Target?!?
I have a bone to pick with Target, so brace yourselves pussycats because it’s about to get real. But first I have to confess that to think anything negative about Target – much less declare it...
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A Field Guide to Satisfying Your Postnatal Sweet Tooth in Boerne
Here’s a fact that is now as foreign to me as it is true: I used to eat salads for dessert. Sometimes I would even round out my meal with an extra serving of roasted brussels sprouts or foccacia bread...
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Perspectives on Parenting: Why it was important to me to nurse
Motherhood comes with a host of choices to make about what is best for you, your family, and your child. We at Alamo City Moms Blog have a variety of moms who want to embrace these choices instead of...
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