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
| Tags: Annika, Breastfeeding, Extended Breastfeeding, Single Mom
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
| Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Co-sleeping, Extended Breastfeeding, Parenting
