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Jan 03, 2013
Evelyn refused to nurse for the first five hours of her life. I tried everything I could think of. I squirted milk on her lips and under her nose. I hovered my nipple directly in front of her. When she rooted, →MORE...


Nov 29, 2012
Dear Evie, Three weeks ago, you joined our family in a whirlwind. One minute your sister and I were napping together on the couch and the next minute (or four hours later, whatever) I was squeezing Grandma’s hand pushing you into →MORE...


Last week Donald and I took our daughters out for an errands run and on our way home our car wound up behind a bus. The bus was advertising a local community college program. One half of the advertisement had the →MORE...


Sep 18, 2012
*** I know that talking about postpartum is not everybody’s cup of tea, so here! Look! Gratuitous picture of a cute kid in the laundry basket! During my first pregnancy, everybody imparted parenting opinions and regaled me with birth stories, but →MORE...


When Charlotte was an infant, one of the women I most deeply respect in my family told me that in her opinion when a mother is still nursing a child who can walk and talk, she is doing it for herself. →MORE...

