We are done. Finally. After four years, exactly four years. Annika is done nursing. We made a deal a few months ago that on her fourth birthday she would be done nursing. It still trips me out that we nursed this long. Even for me, a kid who was nursed for at least three years, [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Uncategorized
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Tags: Annika, Breastfeeding, Extended Breastfeeding, Motherhood
*Family member TMI alert* Mom, TMI = You may not want to read this. For the past few years, sex has come and gone in my brain in a variety of ways that it never had before becoming a mom. Before giving birth, I had heard of women losing their desire to have sex. I [...]
Categories: Single motherhood, Uncategorized
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Milk jugs. Yesterday I met with a childless male friend to chat about books and as we sat by a playscape, so Annika could play, she asked to nurse. I told her no. Mostly because I simply didn’t want to flop my breast out in front of him. I stopped wearing nursing bras a while [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood
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She slept in the Moby wrap a lot as a newborn. People are always talking about “getting babies to sleep,” or, even worse, “making babies sleep.” Or, how did your child “learn” to fall asleep on his/her own? Sleep is a funny thing in the parent world. There are basically two camps in the baby [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
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Nursing at 18 months. Her legs are longer now. I’m fucking sick of nursing. There. I said it. I know it’s not very AP of me, but extended breastfeeding is not all roses and daisy chains like I expected it to be. Okay, I didn’t really think that. I didn’t really know what to expect. [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Breastfeeding, Motherhood, Parenting
