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Nursing and bottle feeding

The Nursing Triad

by Lyn October 13, 2010

Lex made a beautiful post a while back about her experiences as an non-gestational parent (NGP) once her 13-month-old was night weaned. Lex nursed her first three kids, boys that she gave birth to, for multiple years each, and has been supportive of her wife nursing their fourth kid in a similar way, in addition [...]

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Inducing Lactation: A Wrap-Up of the Big Experiment

by Gail July 16, 2010

We know that a number of people end up here because they are looking for information on inducing lactation, particularly in a family with two moms. Now that the induction project has been over for some time, I wanted to gather all of the relevant posts in one location for anyone who might want to [...]

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Baby Cuddling and (not) Nursing

by Gail July 6, 2010

I’ve realized lately that I am enjoying much more snuggling and physical affection with Ira than I did with Leigh at the same age. There might be lots of reasons for this including my flawed memory and the differences between the two kids. But it also occurred to me yesterday that it might be due [...]

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Worry about weaning

by Lyn June 29, 2010

I have a super power. I can worry, full throttle, about two completely contradictory things at the same time.  I’ll illustrate with a current example: As soon as Ira turned one, I began to worry that I was nursing him both for too long, and too short. Apparently my definition of “too long” was any [...]

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Nighttime Parenting Guilt

by Gail June 20, 2010
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Lyn and I have had a large number of different nighttime parenting arrangements. When I was still nursing Ira (and he was still waking up about ten million times a night), we traded full nights, each taking every other night. These days (now that Ira sleeps in until 4 or 5am, ugh), I’m officially “on” [...]

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A Fine Line

by Lyn March 12, 2010

In our newly rested state, we managed to get all four of us to shabbat services last Saturday morning. Ira hasn’t been to services in a while, and he spent time crawling around the prayer space, happily visiting with friends, pulling up, smiling and laughing. The last time he attended, he wasn’t yet crawling well, [...]

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It’s all my fault: sleep and guilt

by Lyn January 26, 2010

I don’t do sleep deprivation. Or rather, when circumstances demand it, the result isn’t pretty. Lack of sleep brings out all the worst aspects of my personality. I think this is true for everyone, but I learned long ago that life is so much better, both for me and for those around me, if I [...]

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Beginning of the End

by Gail November 1, 2009

Well, you knew we couldn’t hold off forever, so, yes, we are back with another installment of our lactation-induction saga. You can read about our decision, how it’s been working, and some pros and cons. Now I’m going to tell you about what is probably the beginning of the end. Lately I’ve been very tired [...]

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Nursing Nag

by Lyn September 2, 2009

I was talking with a good friend about her upcoming baby, and she asked me for the dirt on what it was like last time when Gail was nursing and I wasn’t. The short answer is that it was way better than I expected it to be. The combination of reading Rachel Pepper’s book about [...]

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Nursing Update: hitting my stride

by Gail August 19, 2009

It was recently brought to our attention that everyone gets to hear all about my nursing, but Lyn is a nursing parent, too, and some of you might want to know what is going on with her. She promises a thoughtful post soon, but until then, I’ll just give you a few more gory details [...]

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Flying Solo

by Gail August 9, 2009

Lyn and I are both back at work part time this month and as a result I recently began spending significant amounts of daytime alone with Ira and a smaller amount of time alone with both kids. Even though I have been spending lots of time with Ira, the time alone still felt like a [...]

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