June 2, 2010
I have finally chewed through Ann Sinnott’s wonderful, dense book on extended breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Older Children. She calls it sustained breastfeeding. A better term really, since it’s only “extended” from the POV of our stressed modern lives where children are typically breastfed for a few months if at all. Sinnott interviewed hundreds of women all [...]
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May 24, 2010
Rio is 6 years old today. 6! 6 is much too big. I cannot possibly be the mother of a six-year-old. Yet there it is. I can still feel, when I close my eyes, the exquisite touch of her soft, squirmy, wet self being laid in my arms for the first time. I can hear [...]
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