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Being better at baby friendly.
When I was pregnant I was pleased to learn that every hospital and maternity centre within reach was baby friendly. By that I mean BFHI accredited. I was pretty set on breastfeeding and I’d heard too...
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Becoming a pariah: Breastfeeding’s underclass
I was a member, as previously mentioned, of a large parenting forum. I had a journal there which I started shortly after my baby was born. In that journal I documented our ups and downs with our...
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What might have been
I’ve had some passing retrospective…introspective? Something ‘spective at any rate, moments of late of what might have been. Wondering what kind of person I would have been if we’d not had these...
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Postmortem
I’ve been thinking about why some diagnoses make sense for me and others do not. I’ve done mental lists before but I think it’s past time I did a postmortem analysis of my breastfeeding experience....
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Why a correct diagnosis is important.
Or how wait and see doesn’t cut it. For the first 8 months of my first child’s life I thought I had low supply, probably from insufficient glandular tissue. I wanted a definitive diagnosis though and...
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Deficient.
I do often wonder if there is something mentally wrong with me for doing this mixed feeding malarkey. In my cynical moments I see myself as a mother willing to risk starving her child out of...
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A fate worse than death
Sometimes I feel like not being able to breastfeed is viewed that way. Losing milk supply is a major worry for breastfeeding mothers. It rubs me a bit the wrong way when people who have successfully...
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Take 2: When you think you know what to do and are so very wrong.
Now that we have put the SNS away at home, a little earlier than with the first kid, I should get what I learned from my difficult second child down somewhere. Well I say difficult, but she was...
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Let’s talk formula
Because someone needs to. So here it is from me- someone who wanted to breastfeed and supports breastfeeding where reasonable, yet used and uses formula for medical reasons. Maybe that makes me a...
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Executive Summary
I had a thought today that I would like to know the answer to. With so much publicized research being done on the properties of breast milk (antimicrobial, stem cell properties, brain development and...
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