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Breastfeeding My Jump-Roping Hula Hooper Ally, my five-year-old daughter, greets me after school by burying her nose in my cotton shirt, between my breasts, and inhaling. "Smells like Mommy," she says. "Nursie?" |
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My Life As A Nursing Mom My son's first birthday loomed, and I braced myself for battle with my family, all demanding to know when I was finally going to stop breastfeeding this child. |
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To Wean or Not to Wean: Who Says When Is Enough While extended breastfeeding is not the societal norm in the US, many doctors, health experts, and even mothers believe that it should be. And the research agrees with them. |
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Isabel and the Angry Itch Does Poison Ivy Really Mean Weaning? Instinct and will keep a child from an abrupt end to breastfeeding. |
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A Nursing Triad When I nurse my daughter, she feels right again in my arms. When I nurse my son, he feels right, too. When I nurse them together I am overcome with love. |
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Dear Lily A mother comes to terms with ending the nursing relationship between hereself and her daughter by remembering and writing a letter to her daughter. |
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Tandem Nursing Yes, I'm still nursing the baby-and my two year old, three year old, and four year old! I'm tandem nursing four siblings. |
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Maju for Two: The Joy of Tandem Nursing Maju is the embodiment of every lazy Sunday afternoon curled up in a hammock under the sun with a nice book. Maju is under my shirt, come rain, sun, or grime--out in public, at home, anywhere, anytime. |
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Breastfeeding Beyond Infancy Breastfeeding a toddler and beyond has special issues all its own. Topics include weaning, child led weaning, tandem nursing, and much more. |
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