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August is National Breastfeeding Month, and the first week marks World Breastfeeding Week. A few years ago, these events would have passed without significance, but after having my son and experiencing a long and rewarding breastfeeding relationship...

Yesterday, a miracle happened. Theo extended his sleep by an extra hour which in newborn talk is really like hitting the jackpot! We’ve been nursing at every hour, on the dot, LITERALLY so to have a 2 hour stretch was pure GOLD. So I quickly opened my...

Does any mother-to-be even know about these things?? The painful, milk-limiting lumps that form when one of your ducts become blocked. Let me tell you, I became WAY too familiar with them. The first time I had a blocked duct it didn’t hurt much...

I'm dying here... I've been suffering from incredibly painful clogged ducts and milk blebs now for about 2 months. I literally have one almost every day. I'm taking 2400 mg of soy lecithin 2 times a day, don't wear wire bras, nurse exclusively, am always...

So I’m not sure if this whole month is breastfeeding awareness month, or just one week earlier was…I keep hearing different things! Either way, do I really need an excuse to talk about breastfeeding? No. No, I don’t. Ha! I just started looking into...