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Attachment Parenting Isn’t Martyrdom, It’s About Following Your Instincts

May 15, 2012

I breastfed my son until he was 5 1/2 and have had a wonderful experience with attachment parenting. I never once felt like a martyr. Wanting to be close to my baby and reacting to his needs immediately came naturally. I was following my maternal instinct, and that felt right, and my baby was responding [...]

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Controversial Time Magazine Cover of Breastfeeding Mom

May 11, 2012

Time magazine got everyone talking — and that’s the whole point of the cover photo they chose for their most recent edition. The cover is a photograph of blogger Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, with her breast exposed and nursing her son, who is almost four years old and standing on a little chair to reach [...]

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Mayim Bialik and Her Must-Read Book “Beyond the Sling” About Gentle Attachment Parenting

March 9, 2012

I rushed off to New York City on Wednesday to meet one of my role models — a fellow extended breastfeeding and attachment parenting advocate: Mayim Bialik (who played Blossom). I’m sure she’s sick of being introduced like that and I have a feeling that the success of her first book that was just released [...]

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Breastfeeding Helps Children Avoid Braces and Other Facts

December 30, 2011

I got a nasty, personally attacking comment on one of my latest posts and at first I was going to just delete it — because there is no room for nasty, personally attacking comments on Dagmar’s momsense. But then I got over feeling undeserving of such an unkind comment and decided to respond instead — [...]

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Would You Breastfeed For 5 Years If You Could?

November 3, 2011

Were you wondering? Yes, I’m still breastfeeding Landon. But I have a new rule to nudge him toward weaning (see box below). Why am I going public with this? Because I’m not ashamed of it. Because I’m glad I can still breastfeed him after struggling so much in the beginning. Because I don’t care that [...]

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Breastfeeding and Donating Breast Milk at BlogHer ’11

July 31, 2011

No, this isn’t a post about the Nestle Boycott at BlogHer — the biggest blogging conference for women (August 5 and 6 in San Diego). You can read about how I feel about BlogHer taking money from Nestle in my post from last year: Breastfeeding, the Nestle Boycott, and BlogHer 2010. I’m disappointed that they [...]

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Why I’m Proudly Nursing a Preschooler

July 18, 2011

Signing “I love you.” After noticing a tweet about it, I just read Breastfeeding: How long is too long? I asked the same exact question a while ago for this post: The Many Benefits of Extended Breastfeeding. I’m still breastfeeding my son, who is now 4 years and 8 months old, so of course I [...]

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And We’re Off to Germany…

June 30, 2011

I’m packing right now, and in a couple of hours we’ll be driving to the airport. Don has to stay here, but Landon and I are visiting my parents and family for two weeks in Germany. It’s my dad’s 85th birthday! I will be blogging and sometimes tweeting from Germany, but my time and access [...]

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Boob Job After Breastfeeding?

June 27, 2011

Signing “I love you.” I was stunned to find out from this discussion in MckMama’s forum how many moms would want breasts implants after being done with having kids or breastfeeding. I asked around on Twitter and again the same response: most moms who replied would want a boob job. I had small breasts before [...]

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Take That, Facebook: Beautiful Breastfeeding Photos

May 27, 2011

{source} Facebook keeps deleting pictures of moms nursing their children when they have been reported as obscene and is even going as far as suspending accounts (like The Leaky B@@B breastfeeding support group, which is back online after a huge protest). I’m sick of Facebook not taking a stand that breastfeeding is normal and not [...]

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Tonsillectomy: Caring for Your Child After Surgery

February 8, 2011

I already blogged about Landon’s surgery day and I wanted to let you know how he is doing after his tonsillectomy. We are on Day 3 of his recovery and I better write this all down before I forget. Since we are stuck at home and don’t do much more than watch television and read [...]

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Landon’s Tonsillectomy: Day 1 — Surgery Day

February 6, 2011

Yesterday was the big day: Landon’s tonsillectomy. I’m going to share our experience here since I couldn’t find a lot of information written by parents about children’s tonsillectomies. I agonized about him having the surgery for many months, but his sleep apnea resulting from his swollen tonsils was something that couldn’t continue. He was gasping [...]

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Facebook Deletes Leaky Boob Support Group for Breastfeeding Moms

January 2, 2011

I just found out that Facebook deleted the Leaky Boob page, a support group of moms who helped each other out about questions concerning breastfeeding. Their justification? They deemed some picture that were posted of moms breastfeeding their children as obscene. COME ON! It’s ridiculous and such a sad commentary on our society in America [...]

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Extended Breastfeeding, Celebrity Style

December 23, 2010

Last week I caught a tweet about extended breastfeeding, and it turns out Mayim Bialik, who played Blossom on TV, wrote the post I Breastfeed My Toddler. Got A Problem With It? on the blog Raising Kvell. It’s a wonderful article about why she still breastfeeds her little son, now 27 months old. She believes, [...]

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Fun at the Mall: Santa, Baby Jesus, and Holiday Cheer

December 7, 2010

Landon and I spent five hours at the mall today. That’s why you didn’t get a blog post from me earlier. I didn’t intend it to take that long, but we just had too much fun exploring. It’s getting pretty cold here in Westchester, and I thought spending some quality mother-son time in the mall [...]

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Breastfeeding Expert Shari Criso Answers Your Questions on Her Live Shows on Mondays

November 1, 2010

A few days ago I wrote about why I write Dagmar’s momsense and my desire to be a cheerleader and resource for other moms. Staying with the theme of wanting to help, I’m exited to tell you about a new live show by Shari Criso (CNM, RN, IBCLC). Share

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