Entries Tagged as 'breastfeeding'

FOOD SERVICES

June 8th, 2011 5 Comments

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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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 [...]

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