Posts by indiemamma

wow! This is so cool! I want to do something like that for my area. I live in a pocket of backwards Californians, all my mommy friends had epidural/c-sections and didn't even try to breastfeed... and I'm tandeming my 6m/o and 2.5 y/o!!...

Beautiful! My husband and I want to move to Brazil some day... isn't Brazilian Portuguese an amazing language?! Brazil is also where they have done an (old) amazing documentary called "squatting birth"... it was my inspiration...

I turned 25 this weekend and dh got me a MacBook for school. We went down to buy it after dinner Friday night and they started setting everything up for me. They were quick, but it wasn't a very kid-friendly store (you know, white,...

Quote: Originally Posted by free2be Not trying to still the post but wondering...I limit DD sometimes to 5 minutes. Do you guys do that? Sometimes she will stop nursing on her own but other times she can go 20 minutes...

Quote: Originally Posted by honeybunch2k8 Could you imagine what it would be like if WIC gave out nursing things like pads, pumps, maybe even clothing instead of formula? When I was on WIC with my first...

I'm minoring in Women's Studies and I personally feel like there is so much emphasis (at least in the readings that we have done) on getting women OUT of the house, AWAY from mothering and there has only been negative references to...

Just watched this video again with my 2.5 year old son sitting in my lap. My poor boy is having a hard time sharing mamma milk with his new baby sister. He was excited to see the big girls still having mamma milk and said "Oh wow!...

Hi Fellow BUSY Mammas!! I've been pumping for my 4mo DD since my return to school at the beginning of January. I have a nice little lounge off of the women's restroom in our University Union, but there isn't a lock on the door and...

Hee hee! I'm loving these responses. If I'm getting stared at while NIP, I catch their eye and smile brightly and say "Hi!"... and usually my two year old will start his LONG greeting of "Hi! Hi! (lots of loud toddler...

I live in California and this week I have breastfed my children at: Church Target Applebee's our public library the local play ground (covered up, but only because it was FREEZING) And no one has said a word. I've never been...