I know my topics are all over the place, here. Part of my do what you're gonna do and be yourself idea for 2016 includes blogging about whatever strikes my fancy on whatever schedule/non-schedule is feasible. So we're jumping into some parenting stuff!
M seems to be growing up so very fast. She is definitely a little girl now, not...
When my little family and I travelled down to South Carolina, I looked up the state's breastfeeding laws before we got on the plane (it's protected under SC law, by the way). I was anxious, having heard all kinds of things about America's anti-breastfeeding culture, and had barely fed M in public on home turf at that point. I'd mostly fed her...
Every night, after she has been scrubbed, lotioned, pajama-ed and kissed on the head by Matt, M snuggles into my arms and nurses until she's drifting off. I study her little face in the dim purple light filtering through the curtains and think about how far we've come.
(You can read all of my posts involving breastfeeding here.)
A brief...
Having a hard time breastfeeding has made me feel better about my unplanned cesarean section.
No, really. Because I wanted a 'natural' birth (which, now that I'm on the other side, seems like a silly thing to say -- birth in ALL forms is natural) and I didn't get it, and I sort of felt like I failed in some way. I wanted pain relief, I ended...
Remember how our house is full of poorly set-up things? Turns out our phone wiring is one of them. We have a short, somewhere in the house, which we discovered after the Bell tech came to our house for the sixth time yesterday and informed us he'd have to bill us if he fixed it because it's a problem on our end. But he was nice, and set up a...
