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Baby Week: My Little Preemies
My Daughter in the NICU I didn’t expect anything other than a healthy full term baby. I thought I’d have huge babies, just as my mother did, and I’d have to argue with the hospital staff about not...
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OK, TSA, This Breast Pump Thing is Just Too Much
TSA, I’ve had it with you. Really and truly. I know we never really got along in the first place because I wasn’t impressed with your security theater and your poor treatment of passengers and general...
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Breast Pumps at the MIT Hackathon
Image: Wikimedia Commons I spent four months pumping milk for my firstborn, and I’m in the middle of (probably) six months pumping for my second. I work full time and have two children, and breast...
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‘Tis the Season To Breastfeed in Public
Images courtesy of Christen Gundersen. The name of the employee has been blurred out by GeekMom. When I was struggling to breastfeed my first baby, I found simple pleasures wherever I could....
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Alyssa Milano versus Heathrow Airport
Screenshot: @Alyssa Milano This week, Alyssa Milano took to Twitter to lambast Heathrow Airport for confiscating her expressed breast milk. Meanwhile, in small town Maine, I jumped for joy at finally...
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Nesting in the 21st Century
I’ve just had my third child in six years, and have noticed certain patterns about myself. For me, an early indication of pregnancy is uncontrollable irrationality. For about a week, I will be...
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From Terror to TARDIS: How I Learned to Stop Fretting and Love My Breast Pump
If someone would have told me five months ago that I would one day depend on a machine to feed my child, I would have lashed them raw with a tongue-full of überfanaticism for natural childbirth,...
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The Breastfeeding Experience
Yes, elephants are mammals. What about you? (Image by Flickr user rkimpeljr under Creative Commons) I’ve just stopped breastfeeding. My son is eight months old. I know some of you have chosen to...
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How Audio Books Helped Me Stay Sane
Infants sleep less than you may think (Image: Mandy Horetski) When my daughter was a newborn, and nursing what seemed to be all the time, I had a hard time not being bored out of my mind. During the...
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Breast Pumps at the MIT Hackathon
Reading Time: 2 minutesImage: Wikimedia Commons I spent four months pumping milk for my firstborn, and I’m in the middle of (probably) six months pumping for my second. I work full time and have two...
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‘Tis the Season To Breastfeed in Public
Reading Time: 2 minutesImages courtesy of Christen Gundersen. The name of the employee has been blurred out by GeekMom. When I was struggling to breastfeed my first baby, I found simple pleasures...
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Alyssa Milano versus Heathrow Airport
Reading Time: 5 minutesScreenshot: @Alyssa Milano This week, Alyssa Milano took to Twitter to lambast Heathrow Airport for confiscating her expressed breast milk. Meanwhile, in small town Maine, I...
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Nesting in the 21st Century
Reading Time: 7 minutesI’ve just had my third child in six years, and have noticed certain patterns about myself. For me, an early indication of pregnancy is uncontrollable irrationality. For about a...
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Wacky Lactation in Nature: Underwater, Nipple-less, and Other Milky Oddities
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlatypus. Image credit: Flickr user brisbanecitycouncil, CC BY 2.0 Having breastfed both of my children for a whole year each, I had a lot of time to ponder this evolutionary...
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