I don’t get worked up very often, but reading the comments on this article on ABC News about mothers who staged a “nurse-in” at Targets across the country made my blood boil. The gist of it is a Target customer was asked to feed her baby in a fitting room when she was breastfeeding out in the… Read Full Post

My small state of Rhode Island was all over the news and social media world today. Facebook and Twitter feeds were filled with people talking about the news that Rhode Island would be the first state in the country to ban hospitals from giving away formula samples when a mother and baby go home. I… Read Full Post

I don’t claim to know everything about newborn babies or breastfeeding (despite what my Mom believes) but I do know what has worked for me with my two kids. For Me: My #1 favorite item to surviving the newborn phase is my iPhone. I use it while nursing in the middle of the night to… Read Full Post

It’s been 12 days since my sweet daughter was born and I am just now getting to sit at the computer and write down the story of her birth. Sorry it’s so lengthy, but this is my baby book and I don’t want to forget anything. Having a planned cesarean section is much different than… Read Full Post

Growing up, my Mom always referred to changes in life as closing a chapter or beginning a new one. Graduation from high school, moving off to college, relocating to New England by myself are all chapters in my book. Two weeks ago, another chapter in my life closed: breastfeeding. The last 13 months have flown… Read Full Post

I’ve never really considered myself a “lactivist.”  I honestly don’t care what a Mom feeds her baby, as long as she is feeding him or her. You could say I am Pro-Baby Feeder.  I’ve been fortunate enough that breastfeeding was easy for Jackson & me, who knows- maybe that was God’s way of making up… Read Full Post

I was a sorority girl in college.  My Mom encouraged me to join Rush as a Freshman.  I think she was concerned that I was going into a school with 44,000 students not knowing many people after graduating with 21 other students in my Senior class*. Thirteen of us had gone to school together since… Read Full Post

My son turned six-months-old last week, which also meant I reached a personal milestone for myself.  Six months of exclusively breastfeeding Jackson.  My initial goal was to simply breastfeed, even if it only worked for three days.  Once I passed that goal, I set a new one of six weeks, then three months and six… Read Full Post