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  1. Breastfeeding: Nipple Shields

    September 15, 2011 by crystal

    Nipple ShieldThis is a nipple shield. Lots of women have never seen one, and don’t have to worry about using one. I am not one of those women. Like I’ve said already, my lefty was a little on the flat side when we started breastfeeding. A first, Charlotte was able to latch right away. Within about 24 hours, she could not get a latch on my left side. In a moment of tearful frustration while we were still in the hospital, our nurse gave us a nipple shield. And it worked. Charlotte could nurse.

    Of course, after she started using the nipple shield (more…)

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  2. Breastfeeding: Returning to Work

    August 14, 2011 by crystal

    Well, the summer’s over. I’m returning to work tomorrow. While I realize how lucky that I am to have summers off with my daughter, I am still really sad to be leaving her again. In honor of working mommas everywhere, here’s an article on keeping up with breastfeeding while working!
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  3. I Eat at Mom’s

    August 4, 2011 by crystal

    It’s World Breastfeeding Week! I have been thinking about what I wanted to write to add to the Breastfeeding Blog Hop, and I started thinking back to my experiences, and what helped me from the very beginning. First and foremost, my husband and I took a breastfeeding class with a lactation consultant, which I highly recommend for any expectant parents. At the class, we were given little slips of paper that said “I eat at Mom’s” to put in our baby’s bassinet after she was born. I packed my little slips of paper in the overstuffed labor bag, and tucked them in my baby’s bassinet before she even left the delivery room. I wanted to be sure that no one was going to accidentally give my baby a bottle or pacifier without talking to me first.

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  4. Breastfeeding: Troubleshooting

    July 9, 2011 by crystal

    Early on in our breastfeeding journey, we struggled with using nipple shields (Charlotte had some trouble getting a latch on leftie) and cracked, bleeding nipples. Aside from those issues, the first ten seconds of nursing hurt for about six weeks. It was like little needles in my nipples. After about two weeks of things finally working correctly, I started having shooting pain through my breasts. (Just in time to go back to work! Awesome. . .) The pain was intense enough to wake me from a dead sleep, and lasted about month before it was corrected. I would lie in bed crying, and trying really hard to be quiet about it so I wouldn’t wake the baby.

    Here’s the kicker – No one knew what it was. (more…)

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