Posts by SouthernBette

I wish I had seen this sooner.  I posted a thread yesterday about being a full-time working mom who EBF.  Now I want to extend beyond a year to two years and was wondering about the logistics.  Like CI Mama, I am on a...

P.S. Great article, Mosaic! Thanks for the pumping advice, too, Schae.  I will return to work when my daugther is 10 months+, but I won't have the lovely supply that Mosaic has, so I may pump a little to store.  Otherwise,...

Wow.  These are such positive and helpful responses.  Thank you so much for the advice.  I do appreciate your encouragement, and I'm excited that I'll be able to continue feeding beyond a year.

Hey, ladies.  I'm a full-time professor who is home for the summer until the end of August with my sweet almost 8-month-old girl.  She was exclusively breastfed until 6 months, and she is still predominantly nourished by...

I'm so sorry that I am just reading this news.  My heart feels like it could burst for MistyMama and her sweet Gavin.  My hugs and thoughts to you and yours. 

Lyndz, I'm so happy for you! Thank you for sharing your daunting and lovely tale.  I need to sit down and write Rowan's story when my semester ends.  I hope I can do it justice in the same way that you told Cadence's lovely...

Thanks for sharing your stories, ladies.  I feel the same as many of you do.   I split the difference with my expectations--a hospital birth with a midwife who shared my birth plan vision of an all-natural, "use...

Quote: Originally Posted by outlier  I do!  Dh has been sleeping in another room to get more sleep.  I was a little worried at first about having the baby in bed because it seems to be a general assumption...

Thank you so much for updating us. MistyMama: We have you in our healing thoughts. I'm so sorry for your difficult time right now. Please let me know if I can send anything down that way for you. Hugs to you and your family.

We are 3.5 weeks and just got a series of real smiles a few days ago. It is obvious when she is grinning in response to her mommy and daddy acting silly over her. I keep having dreams that she is speaking to me, but that will be a while.