Personal Stories
A Return To Nursing

By Christy Borovoy I am not exactly sure when it was that she started really nursing well again, but I do know that [...]

Breastfeeding – I Hate It!

By Laurence Thellier I hate breastfeeding…no, it’s true, I really do! I breastfed my first daughter Carla for three months, and it was [...]

Breastfeeding, A Second Chance

By Jamie Lee Before my second daughter was born, I had already made my decision that I was not going to breastfeed. My [...]

Formula May Have Won The First Round, But I Won The War

By Dee Negron There we were, learning breathing techniques and that breastfeeding was best. Curiously enough though, our Lamaze teacher never told us why [...]

More Than I Knew I Could Do: A Tale of Nursing And Working

By Tricia Dixon When my first daughter, Elizabeth, was born in March 2000, I planned to nurse her for about 5 or 6 [...]

Nursing and Working: My Secrets

By Nancy Bird The classes were run by an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), and she seemed like such a warm caring lady! [...]

Nursing Through Confusion

By Olga April “If you don’t give a bottle to your baby in the first two months, he may never take one,” said [...]

Pumping Was Inconvenient For Me Too

By Sharon DiOrio As a full-time working woman and part-time pumping mom, I’ll be the first to admit that pumping breastmilk for my baby [...]

Relactation: It Was a War, and I Won

By Lisa Bryan My son was born three weeks early. My head was in a spin. I was a new Mom, with all [...]

What I Learned Looking Back

By Kim Onion I suppose that many would say that worrying about how your formula fed your baby is ridiculous.  It’s over and done with, [...]

 
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