After my first baby was born, I lay in a milky haze in a dim room with dark crimson sheets. We nursed and slept, nursed and slept as late summer pulsed with cricket-song, and sunflowers blazed in the garden below the window. My body, which had previously been decorative, had become functional. I fed the [...]
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FOOD SERVICES
June 8th, 2011 5 Comments
Tags: breastfeeding · cooking · food services · kid food · mothering guilt · Parenting
Still Got Milk?
November 10th, 2009 3 Comments
There were certain things I thought I’d never do when I became a mother. I wouldn’t yell at my children, share my marital bed, or nurse through toddler-hood. As my husband said with authority when we first discussed breastfeeding: “If you can ask for it, then you’re too old for it.” Never say never when [...]
Tags: breastfeeding · c-section · cesarean · nursing · Parenting · toddlers