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, [...]