June 25, 2010
Yesterday, I was getting changed while Serena played on the bed nearby. I took my shirt off and she said, “Mama! Your boobies! I can see your boobies! And…(long, dramatic, awestruck pause) your nibbles!” We’re in the midst of a too-slow-for-me and too-fast-for-her weaning process, so my breasts have recently become an even more interesting [...]
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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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