Breastfeeding Stories

Guest Story: On Breastfeeding Twins

This breastfeeding story comes from Janet, at Love is Blonde. I love how she’s been able to find a balance even though her breastfeeding relationship didn’t turn out the way she had planned. Also honesty. I always love honesty!  Check out this excerpt, and head over to her blog for the whole story! I admit…

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My Breastfeeding Journey… So Far

Today’s guest post comes to us from Theresa, who blogs at Confessions of a High-Heel Wearing Hippie Mommy I’m breastfeeding twins. Exclusively. It’s actually really easy. But it hasn’t always been this easy! My first foray into breastfeeding was with my son, a singleton. I knew before he was born that there might be issues.…

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Breastfeeding Older Twins

Welcome, Carnival of Breastfeeding readers! This month’s theme is extended breastfeeding. Check out the bottom of this post for links to other posts on this topic. Once I was past the foggy, early days of juggling babies, figuring out latch and soreness and the myriad of other early breastfeeding challenges I faced, breastfeeding twins was…

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Beer and Bottles (and other motherly advice)

The arrival of my twins was eventful, and about as far from my own homebirth as possible. One baby was in the NICU for a few days and the other lost a lot of weight early on, and I began pumping and supplementing and trying to navigate between my room and the NICU and juggle three bodies, two breasts, and one frazzled mama.

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Nursing in Public (Kristin)

This fabulous story comes courtesy of Kristin, at Intrepid Murmurings, and was originally posted as part of the Breastfeeding Cafe‘s Blog Carnival. When my twins were two weeks old, I took them on an outing. By myself. We first had an appointment with my wonderful lactation doctor, and when that was over, I took them…

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