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World Breastfeeding Week: Breastfeeding an Older Child

August 7, 2015 by heatherss 5 Comments

This week was World Breastfeeding Week. The theme was "breastfeeding and work" and you can read more about it on this site here. I'm not a working mom (in the traditional sense) so I can't really contribute to the theme. But I can tell you a story. It's how I landed up breastfeeding an older child: … [Read more...]

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A Prisoner of My Emotions (Sleep & Breastfeeding a Toddler Poem)

October 19, 2014 by heatherss 5 Comments

In the early hours of the morning When my entire body is craving sleep Anger festers inside me like a boiling cauldron. There is no winning here for me Only a tired mother's act of love The only way for him to sleep is boob And that means I cannot sleep I am numb With every … [Read more...]

Filed Under: breastfeeding, poems, sleep, toddler, weaning

Practical Steps for Gentle Weaning

March 31, 2014 by heatherss 11 Comments

I've recently been reading "Mothering Your Nursing Toddler" by Norma Jane Bumgarner, published by La Leche League. It's a good book, but I was particularly interested in ways to wean my child off the boob. In a gentle way, of course. Nicky is now 21 months old and is steadily nearing his second … [Read more...]

Filed Under: breastfeeding, Solids, toddler, Weaning, weaning

Breastfeeding Your Child (Pail Monthly Theme)

August 16, 2013 by heatherss 16 Comments

In honour of World Breastfeeding Week (Aug 1-7) and National Breastfeeding Awareness Month (in the United States) PAIL bloggers has "Feeding Your Child" for the August Monthly Theme. Their questions are in italics and my answers follow. How did you feed your baby? Breastmilk from the breast? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: baby, breastfeeding, breastfeeding, PAIL, toddler

My Child Won’t Eat (Book Review)

July 13, 2013 by heatherss 13 Comments

  It is rather an exasperating endeavor trying to get your child to eat. Ask me, I know. Some days I only get him to eat two spoons of yoghurt and some of his pouch. He doesn’t like the puree I made for him. He cries when I try and put him in the high chair. I have now officially given up on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: baby, books, breastfeeding, Parenting, Solids, Solids, toddler, Weaning, weaning Tagged With: baby led weaning, book review, Carlos Gonzalez, my child won't eat, solids

If he cries, you should put a boob on it…

June 19, 2013 by heatherss 3 Comments

 (coutesy http://justmommies.com) If you're a fan of my poetry (remember my fertility poetry:  - I just haven't met you yet, I'm over it,  Happiness), I now have a baby version based on my go to solution for baby cries when all else is exhausted. Obviously if he dropped his toy - pick it up, if … [Read more...]

Filed Under: baby, breastfeeding, breastfeeding, humour, poems Tagged With: baby, breastfeeding, crying

The Natural Mothering eBook Bundle – a $525 value for only $29.97!

June 12, 2013 by heatherss 1 Comment

I've just been downloading a whole load of ebooks. I actually don't know how I got there. It was one of those comment love posts that I just clicked through. But there is a load of stuff there including fertility ebooks that I know lots of you would be interested in. Even on feeding and potty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: baby, birth, breastfeeding, Children, co sleeping, discipline, Fertility, fertility product, Solids, Weaning

Baby Led Weaning

October 11, 2012 by heatherss 15 Comments

  I learnt a few things from this Baby Led Weaning book. But first let's start with the question: when is the right time to start solids? It seems to depend on who you are asking. The nurse at the clinic where I have been weighing and vaccinating Nicky was quite adamant that I should … [Read more...]

Filed Under: baby, books, breastfeeding, Parenting, Solids, Solids, Weaning Tagged With: baby led weaning, pureed food, solids, spoon feeding

First 3 weeks

July 2, 2012 by heatherss 5 Comments

Hi bleeps! I know I haven't updated this blog in a while. I have been very busy with Nicholas. He is at the moment all clean, nappy changed and fed, so should be sleeping for a bit. (I spoke too soon - this post got interrupted. I fed him ( boob 15 min, expressed milk from pumping 80 ml) so he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: baby, breastfeeding, breastfeeding, newborn Tagged With: 3 weeks newborn baby, breastfeeding

Birth Part Two: First Week Freak Out

June 18, 2012 by heatherss 21 Comments

PART TWO: THURSDAY- SATURDAY: THE FIRST FEW DAYS I ended off the first post on Nicholas’ birth by saying that it is a bit of a shock to find that the little one you have been carrying inside you for so long is now a real live baby that you have to care for. Lulu put it really well: Here is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: baby, birth, breastfeeding, breastfeeding Tagged With: baby, breastfeeding, latching, newborn

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