tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58387488966461632382024-03-05T12:57:54.763-05:00Boobie TimeA Breastfeeding Blog... and everything else Baby!LMMBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222191391537688485noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838748896646163238.post-36269247949480645662012-03-26T07:00:00.000-04:002012-03-26T07:00:08.640-04:00Natural Parents Do It Yourself<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's that time again! You might remember the great post in December 2011 that highlighted the <a href="http://www.hybridrastamama.com/2011/12/2011-cant-miss-posts-from-natural.html">Natural Parents Network Volunteer's most popular or favorite posts from the year</a>. </div>
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Well, we are back and this time we are bringing you a collection of posts that focus on Do It Yourself projects, How To's, Tutorials, Recipes, and anything related to a step by step guide or informational how-to.
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">I have written before that I hate labels, mostly because they are limiting. No matter what the label is people have certain ideals that they think are inclusive of that label. I believe this to be true for just about all labels; political, racial, social and of course parenting labels. My parenting style is very much in line with principles of <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/what-is-np/" target="_blank">Natural Parenting</a> but there are no rules as to exactly how that is carried out. What does that say about my parenting?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Job Description: Mommy shares so awesome info on the placenta. </span><br>
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working with a lot of advocacy and parenting groups online which has helped me learn so much about different aspects of parenting and life.
</span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">In some groups, I am pretty active and in others I am more of a lurker. I love trying
to make a change in the breastfeeding world and I am constantly striving to parent more naturally and these groups help a lot with this. </span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">I for one am very thankful to be part of the <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/" target="_blank">Natural Parents Network</a> Team, they truly are an amazing group of women. We have come together and support each other in many ways, whether it be a <a href="http://www.fineandfairblog.com/2011/12/virtual-benefit-for-momma-jorje.html" target="_blank">virtual fundraiser</a> for a fellow mom who's <a href="http://www.mommajorje.com/2012/01/spencers-birth-story.html" target="_blank">baby was in the NICU</a>, words of encouragement, advice, or even donating personal items for a mom in need. But not all online interactions are as up lifting and moving as these. I have also had the privilege to meet a lot of
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in. </span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">Online interaction certainly have their challenges; plain and simple, </span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">online can be tough. Messages are miss interpreted, you don't know the other
people in the group, people take certain liberties behind the disguise
of the Internet that they may not in real life, and it can get heated
pretty quickly, and people can get pretty nasty.</span><br>
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An awesome post by <a href="http://www.diaryofafirstchild.com/" target="_blank">Diary of a First Child</a>, it makes me wish I had pushed for a natural birth even more, it rocks. The pictures are by Joni Rae of <a href="http://jonirae.com/">Tales of a Kitchen Witch</a>, they are so amazing, they should seriously be in a birthing book! (hint, hint to anyone writing a birthing book)</div>
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A beautiful birth story by <a href="http://codenamemama.com/" target="_blank">Code Name: Mama</a>. An unexpected, unassisted, home birth.<br>
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<a href="http://progressive-parenting.com/2012/01/22/whatever-happened-to-women-and-children-first/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.mommajorje.com/2012/02/i-did-not-birth-syndrome.html" target="_blank"><b>I did not Birth a Syndrome</b></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I really can't complain we have had a pretty mild winter (nothing like last year). Somebody was not happy then. ---></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This week we had our second snow sighting... I couldn't call it a storm as it was gone before it had a chance to stay, but I am really missing summer! I miss the beach, the sun, the warmth and the air! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I can not wait for this summer! </span></div>
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Most of us have heard about the many <a href="http://www.ithoughtiknewmama.com/2011/02/withoutmybreasts/">benefits of breastfeeding</a>, and although my decision to breastfeed was based upon reasons like breast-milk being the ultimate food for babies, why I am continuing to breastfeed, convenience plays a huge role.<br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Breastfeeding Stigma continues; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/StopHarassingKwasnicaAndALLBreastfeedingWomen" target="_blank">Facebook </a>is still removing photos, they have not agreed to completely stop. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/arts/television/funny-or-die-takes-down-and-then-restores-breast-feeding-video.html?_r=1" target="_blank">Fine or Die</a> is the latest site to remove a BFing video. Moms and Babies are still being harassed. I just read of a women who was harassed in a Walmart today. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A lot of the negative comments I have been reading compare BFing to going to the bathroom or having sex. It is disgusting that this is the image people have of the natural way to feed a baby. I can't comprehend how they can compare them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The other thing that is being said all the time is; Why can't you just go to the bathroom and nurse in there? Would you eat your lunch or dinner in a public restroom? </span><br>
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Bring Breastfeeding Back To Sesame Street Started As One Mom's Wish.<br>
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While on pregnancy bed-rest I was searching the
internet for videos and information on breastfeeding in an effort to
learn as much as I could about breastfeeding. I was so afraid I would be
unable to breastfeed that I began to research every possible problem so
that I would know how to fix any that could happened. That is when I came
across the <i>Sesame Street</i> videos from the 70's and 80's
depicting breastfeeding. I thought to myself, "I would love to see those
come back to television." Recently, after endless news stories
regarding nursing mothers being publicly harassed while breastfeeding, I blogged asking <a href="http://boobietime.blogspot.com/2011/12/not-exactly-wordless-wednesday.html" target="_blank"><i>Sesame Street</i> to bring breastfeeding back</a>.
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This has been an amazing two weeks! I never thought that this would happen! The momentum is unbelievable, as I am typing we have over 25,000 signatures and they are continuing to go up! <a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/bring-breastfeeding-back-to-sesame-street/" target="_blank">The Petition</a> was only posted 13 days ago. I have come across a lot of post about my <a href="http://boobietime.blogspot.com/2011/12/not-exactly-wordless-wednesday.html" target="_blank">blog post</a> / the petition these are my favorite. First some amazing places that my blog has been discussed on. The most exciting was <a href="http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/12/group-petitions-to-bring-breastfeeding-back-to-sesame-street/" target="_blank">TIME.com</a>, I was ecstatic when that showed up in my Google Alerts and it is so supportive! <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/05/sesame-street-breastfeeding_n_1187086.html?ref=breastfeeding" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a> was our first big break in the online seen. Annie from <a href="http://www.phdinparenting.com/" target="_blank">PhD in Parenting</a> did an amazing article on <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/moms-want-to-see-breastfeeding-on-sesame-street.html" target="_blank">Care2</a> which set the ball in motion. Thank you Annie! Now for my favorites! <br>
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Cesarean rates in the United States have reached an all time high of 35% and this number is climbing. This may be why there was a 20% increase in the number of home-birth in the United States over the last five years, this number is climbing as well. Home-births may still only count for 1-2% of the births in the United States, but this increase shows that women are becoming more educated about their birthing choices. Realizing that it is possible to have an intervention free birth at home, or in water, or even at a birthing center.<br>
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<i><b>Ricki Lake</b></i> has definitely become one of the Hollywood faces
advocating natural birth. Her documentary, "<a href="http://www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com/" target="_blank">The Business of Being Born</a>"
(BBB) gives a look inside hospital births, how they are setup to go a
certain way and it can be very difficult to brake that cycle. She also
shared her home water-birth of her second son. The four part series “More Business of Being
Born” also includes “Celebrity Mother’s Talk
Straight Birth”. Against popular opinion, not all of Hollywood wants a scheduled designer birth followed by a tummy tuck. <br>
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Take a look at who in Hollywood have
had a natural birth, home-birth, water-birth, and even some unassisted births. See
what they have say about there amazing experience. I was sure to
included some of the proud celebrity dads who have supported the
wives! <br>
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<i><b>Actress Jessica Alba</b></i> and husband Cash had a Hypno-Birth. She told <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/hollywood-labor-dispute-2011277/16312" target="_blank">Us Weekly</a> about the delivery of her daughter Honor saying, "I didn't scream. It was really Zen. The labor was more like a meditation. I did yoga breathing."<br>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZCTpRKDxiD_80eBxYbM5kAeTBv_69b54s7-mFvbL2NkzpLjqptJHVnzeTeVKHcFfolbDLH4TSZCB1RlS0_hlyXiFaclGFBg_9NWgrSby22dso1FAFnnD9lHRbsgcK0t_cque37WFrriR/s1600/pamela-anderson-sons-sydney-03.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZCTpRKDxiD_80eBxYbM5kAeTBv_69b54s7-mFvbL2NkzpLjqptJHVnzeTeVKHcFfolbDLH4TSZCB1RlS0_hlyXiFaclGFBg_9NWgrSby22dso1FAFnnD9lHRbsgcK0t_cque37WFrriR/s200/pamela-anderson-sons-sydney-03.jpg" width="200"></a></span></td></tr>
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<i><b>Actress Pamela Anderson</b></i> with then husband <i><b>Musician Tom Lee Jones</b></i>, said on Larry King “I gave birth at home both times natural with a midwife, in water with nothing. Not even Tylenol."<br>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9zbadVd4maOmnxhvpjHjbXZaM-611tizlMvcR7xSTeP47tN7Uz4Hk17wHr7ZsHhe8d6R82Vu3Tp78M-1d1ztqAZceNUvYMNgsNDD2J7CNpzEXu0MYe-72f4AreLEPLJIPLvVMKIbBlU-X/s1600/erika" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9zbadVd4maOmnxhvpjHjbXZaM-611tizlMvcR7xSTeP47tN7Uz4Hk17wHr7ZsHhe8d6R82Vu3Tp78M-1d1ztqAZceNUvYMNgsNDD2J7CNpzEXu0MYe-72f4AreLEPLJIPLvVMKIbBlU-X/s200/erika" width="200"></a></span></td></tr>
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<b><i>Singer Erykah Badu</i></b>, had all three of her children at home. She says. “Maybe to some it’s scary, but preparation is the whole key. When a mother has found out she’s going to have a baby, her whole life — her diet, her mood, her energy — should kind of prepare her. After she prepares herself, fear is never a part of it. I expected success and health, so I made sure I surrounded myself with it. By the time I had my third baby, childbirth seemed a very natural part of life to me.” Erykah, now works as a Doula and is training to be a Midwife, she says her clients refer to her as “Erykah Ba-Doula”.<br>
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Last week I posted, <a href="http://boobietime.blogspot.com/2012/01/ww-what-nursing-in-public-really-looks.html" target="_blank">What Nursing in Public REALLY Looks Like</a>!</div>
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Even in these very close up views I can't find anything offensive, can you? <br>
What is it about nursing that has the country in such an uproar?</div>
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<b>Welcome to the January 2012 Carnival of Natural Parenting: </b></div>
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<i>This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by <a href="http://www.hobomama.com/2012/01/january-carnival-of-natural-parenting.html" target="_blank">Hobo Mama</a> and <a href="http://codenamemama.com/2012/01/10/jan-2012-carnatpar/" target="_blank">Code Name: Mama</a>. This month our participants have reported on weeklong trials to make their lives a little greener and gentler. </i></div>
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<i>Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.</i></div>
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I am excited to join in the <a href="http://codenamemama.com/2011/12/31/carnatpar-2011-year-in-review/" target="_blank">Carnival of Natural Parenting</a> for 2012 year. One of my goals is to participate every month. This month challenge was pretty fun for us and liberating for me. Our goal was to only use natural toys for at least a week maybe longer. My criteria was the following;<br>
battery = put away, plastic = put away, if it manipulated the child = put away, and if it did not inspire open-ended or imaginative play = put away. We also tried to do no television. We don't watch much as it is, but I wanted to eliminate that as well. My son is 19 months so it was not to hard. I was surprised at how many toys we had that really are useless when it comes learning and developing. Being the fourth boy in our family as far as cousins go he has received a lot of hand-me-down toys.<br>
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A couple of exceptions to the rules above were; plastic animals figures, Legos, and puzzles. These are the reasons I chose to keep them out. The animals; he loves them, he plays with them constantly. ~B~ does things like make them kiss (if you ever see an elephant and a lion kiss it’s very cute), puts them boxes and carts, lines them all up, and takes them for rides on his train. I feel that they do inspire imagination, open end play, and of course love for animals. The Legos; stimulate creativity and lateral thinking, they help build dexterity and aid in developing simple math and pattern skills. The way they interlock helps children learn problem solving skills as well. The puzzles; I was on the fence about this one. They don't inspire open ended or imaginative play. They stayed because they help develop problem solving skills, build dexterity, they help teach concepts like colors, shapes, and language skills when done with an adult.<br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is a HUGE misconception that nursing in public is indecent and women are exposing themselves just because they can. But as nursing moms we have no more interest in showing you our breast as you do in seeing them. These are pictures of real moms nursing in public. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br>Are they indecent? Exposing themselves? Flashing the world? I don't believe so.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: small;"> They are simply feeding their babies the way nature intended. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br>Thank you to all the moms who shared their beautiful pictures.</span></div>
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Me and ~B~ nursing on a walk in a <a href="http://www.babyktan.com/" target="_blank">Baby K'Tan Carrier</a>. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Basically <b>breastfeeding in public IS legal </b>in the United States, though sometimes people simply don't know it and therefore might complain about it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Children learn by observing and interacting with their world, and every
moment adds up to form the basis for the values, beliefs, habits, and
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<span style="font-size: small;">I’m thankful for not having boobs thrown in my face all the time by offensive and indecent breastfeeding mothers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.hobomama.com/2009/06/easy-discreet-way-to-breastfeed-toddler.html" target="_blank"><b>Easy Decreet Way to Nurse your Toddler in Public</b></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There's absolutely nothing wrong with breastfeeding, because it's the
normative way to feed your baby. But just because it's the biological
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public can take some getting used to, even for the boldest mamas among
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">They learn that it is normal, natural, and beautiful.</span></div>
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A timeline detailing the journey of the average breastfed baby.</div>
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Most of us have heard about the many benefits of breastfeeding. These are the 5 reasons why I don’t want to give up the convenience of breastfeeding.</div>
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I wish they would redo this scene for the current series! Maybe with a Celeb. It would help normalize breastfeeding to a culture that has completely sexualized breastfeeding. It look's like we need 1999 version, and a 2010 version. Well maybe we will get lucky and by 2020 it will be the norm and they will redo it then!!! These scenes are beautiful!<br>
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<a href="http://boobietime.blogspot.com/2011/12/not-exactly-wordless-wednesday.html#more">Read more »</a>LMMBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222191391537688485noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838748896646163238.post-20769261053863632472011-12-20T08:00:00.021-05:002012-01-01T20:08:16.259-05:00Most Viewed NPN Blogger Posts of 2011<a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/?attachment_id=19263" rel="attachment wp-att-19263"><img align="right" alt="" class="size-full wp-image-19263" height="181" src="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/BestOf2011.jpg" width="181"></a>I am proud and honored to be volunteer with the <a href="http://www.naturalparentsnetwork.com/" target="_blank" title="Natural Parents Network">Natural Parents Network</a> (NPN), a community of natural-minded parents and parents-to-be where you will be informed, empowered, and inspired. When you visit the NPN’s website you can find articles and posts about <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/activism/" target="_blank" title="Activism">Activism</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/balance/" target="_blank" title="Balance">Balance</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/consistent-care/" target="_blank" title="Consistant Care">Consistent Care</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/ecological-responsibility/" target="_blank" title="Ecological Responsibility">Ecological Responsibility</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/family-safety/" target="_blank" title="Family Safety">Family Safety</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/feeding-with-love/" target="_blank" title="Feeding with Love">Feeding With Love</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/gentle-discipline/" target="_blank" title="Gentle Discipline">Gentle Discipline</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/healthy-living/" target="_blank" title="Healthy Living">Healthy Living</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/holistic-health/" target="_blank" title="Holistic Health">Holistic Health</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/natural-learning/" target="_blank" title="Natural Learning">Natural Learning</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/nurturing-touch/" target="_blank" title="Nurturing Touch">Nurturing Touch</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/parenting-philosophies/" target="_blank" title="Parenting Philosophies">Parenting Philosophies</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/practical-home-help/" target="_blank" title="Practical Home Help">Practical Home Help</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/preparing-for-parenting/" target="_blank" title="Preparing for Parenting">Preparing for Parenting</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/responding-with-sensitivity/" target="_blank" title="Responding with Sensitivity">Responding With Sensitivity</a>, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/category/safe-sleep/" target="_blank" title="Safe Sleep">Safe Sleep</a>, and so much more! <br>
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The volunteers who dedicate their time and energy to make NPN the outstanding resource it is also spend countless hours informing and inspiring others on their personal blogs. To close out 2011, the NPN volunteers have come together to provide you with some valuable reading material. Each volunteer has selected either their most viewed post of 2011 or their favorite post and shared the link here. Please take a few moments to visit each post. Our intention is to expand our reach as bloggers and informed parents and parents-to-be who are still growing as we move through our own journeys. Each volunteer has provided links to other social media sites where you can follow them as well.<br>
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We hope you enjoy reading these posts as much as we enjoyed writing them. We are always looking for new volunteers so please, <a href="http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/contact/">contact us</a> if you are interested. Just a few hours per month can help other mamas in a huge way!<br>
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<a href="http://boobietime.blogspot.com/2011/12/most-viewed-npn-blogger-posts-of-2011_19.html#more">Read more »</a>LMMBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222191391537688485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838748896646163238.post-18678680912145133102011-12-18T15:29:00.007-05:002012-01-26T23:15:46.405-05:00Donating Breast MilkAs I mentioned in my last post <a href="http://boobietime.blogspot.com/2011/03/pumping-love-hate-relationship.html">Pumping...A Love ~ Hate Relationship</a>. I was able to store up about 5000+ ounces and we bought a deep freezer to store it all. When my son turned nine months old I realized there was no way we would use all of of this milk... Yes, I could give it to him in a bottle or a cup, use it for cereal, but our BFing relationship was going strong and I saw no immediate future need for all of it. I tried to make <a href="http://www.food.com/recipe/breastmilk-butter-53903">Breast Milk Butter</a> out of it (I wasn't successful), even looked into <a href="http://www.landmilkhoney.com/recipanr.htm">Breast Milk Recipes</a>. I didn't see a need for that. <br>
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What I really wanted was the milk to be used for babies who need it. I looked into donating it to a Milk Bank, but everywhere I looked someone was profiting from my free breast milk. That just didn't sit well with me. I wanted it to go to babies in need at no expense to the parents. I could not find a place like that. After countless hours scouring the Internet I started reading more and more about mom to mom milk sharing. Really this idea isn't new. Women have used wet nurses and crossed nursed since the dawn of time. How else did babies survive before formula when a mom was unable to nurse?<br>
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<a href="http://boobietime.blogspot.com/2011/12/donating-breast-milk.html#more">Read more »</a>LMMBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222191391537688485noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838748896646163238.post-36886250636300693252011-03-26T23:26:00.005-04:002012-02-09T12:57:26.553-05:00Pumping... A Love - Hate Relationship!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjW1eZI9r7PBYYnSGNJrv__tr9fLPiPKZWdgp9z95U-hyYnZACwnAtOxX_zeDGhFSejQxV7-9gDPH8DfBTo0TUxid2CWQ0af_cU524oHSlvjkDSyBRcW_1zQ_q4-XCVxyt1dmmFBSa1FR/s1600/2830hr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjW1eZI9r7PBYYnSGNJrv__tr9fLPiPKZWdgp9z95U-hyYnZACwnAtOxX_zeDGhFSejQxV7-9gDPH8DfBTo0TUxid2CWQ0af_cU524oHSlvjkDSyBRcW_1zQ_q4-XCVxyt1dmmFBSa1FR/s320/2830hr.jpg" width="320"></a><br>
Like I said before I had a huge fear of not being able to feed my son. So I searched and searched the Internet, read everything I possibly could about BFing... and I also talked and talked to everyone who I knew that was BFing and/or pumping... One day when I was big and round I was at a friends house ~E~. We were talking about BFing and Pumping and she showed me her amazing stash!!! Seriously the girl was my BFing Idol! Her freezer was full of 8oz bags! I was drooling! lol... I wanted that! I wanted to be able to never worry about having milk for my boy... I begged her for her secret! And hoped it wasn't just genetics, because we weren't related... But at that moment I was hoping she was my long lost milk sister...<br>
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Sooo she explained to my how she started pumping as soon she had her son... That she tricked her body to thinking that it need to produce more milk then he needed... That she would pump in the morning and then nurse her son. It's all supply and demand, so the more you take the more you make... Sound easy enough right... but here's the thing... pumping isn't that easy, a babies suck is so much more effective!!! So she also explained that she would do breast compressions and try to get every last drop... So I need more information on what exactly I needed to do to produce the most milk possible!<br>
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<a href="http://boobietime.blogspot.com/2011/03/pumping-love-hate-relationship.html#more">Read more »</a>LMMBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222191391537688485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838748896646163238.post-47050629301256570402011-03-22T14:20:00.001-04:002012-02-17T00:18:58.284-05:00~B's~ Birth Story!<span style="font-size: small;">So it's been a crazy Fall and Winter and I haven't Blogged at all... :( I want to change that from this point forward I really want remember these days because time is just flying by way to quickly... I have been lucky to be able to stay home with my son this first year of his life... It truly has been the most rewarding and best year... Before I know it my son will be turning 1 year old in May and I wanted to write his birth story before I forget all the details...</span> <br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcLF9TLyfR-TA57C1WJqjCwNDAoc0mUqiU9SMefVtfZr3ZnDolY4dcHaU9-kbB6oopF2URtuHYiVVvkJtJk6q1HybeJ16wyyRaqHuMqTJLhdD6FqDLR6l4ZRFjyIHxXRandJHxL6Q6nnI/s1600/DSC_0048.JPG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcLF9TLyfR-TA57C1WJqjCwNDAoc0mUqiU9SMefVtfZr3ZnDolY4dcHaU9-kbB6oopF2URtuHYiVVvkJtJk6q1HybeJ16wyyRaqHuMqTJLhdD6FqDLR6l4ZRFjyIHxXRandJHxL6Q6nnI/s320/DSC_0048.JPG.jpg" width="320"></a><span style="font-size: small;">I had some <a href="http://boobietime.blogspot.com/search/label/Infertility" target="_blank">difficulties getting pregnant</a>, which included me having to have <a href="http://boobietime.blogspot.com/2011/12/way-out-of-infertility-part-iii.html#more" target="_blank">surgery</a>. Two months later I was pregnant... I had always wanted a natural childbirth (my mother had four natural childbirths and I see that as awe-inspiring, I wanted to be able to do that)... I loved the idea of a home-birth, but due to the previous surgery, I was considered high risk for uterine rupture... I decided to go with a birthing center that was separate from a hospital, but after meeting with them I was told that I was to high risk and they recommended a birthing center within the hospital with a midwife. I went and saw them and I was told that I really should be followed by OB... After much disappointment I chose to stay with my OB (who I loved... but I just wanted it to be very natural)... So I explained to my OB what I wanted... Natural with no intervention... She was fine with that, but she was going to consult with the specialist who did my surgery just a few months earlier...Well knowing that this is what all the other birthing professionals had done previously, I had a bad feeling about this... After a meeting and reviewing my medical record it was decided that the best way to proceed was with a c-section... I was high risk for uterine rupture and that was life threatening... </span><br>
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When I was eight months pregnant I was so nervous and fearful. Not of the actual birth, but of not being able to BF. For some awful reason when you are pregnant everyone wants to tell you their horror story. This goes for the whole experience... You hear horror stories like...I was sick for the entire pregnancy, the never ending labor, the delivery from hell, it took 16 weeks to walk normally, the countless sleepless nights that are approaching, the endless crying you will endure, the pain of breastfeeding and the I was unable to breastfeed.<br>
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For me the BFing was the most worrisome. I really, really, wanted to be able to do it. I have always wanted to be a mom, even as a child I have pictures of me pretending to BF a doll.<br>
Check it out wasn't I cute!?! My biggest fear was not producing enough milk. I was told so many stories of women who did not produce enough milk. I was even told of my Great-Grandmother who in Cuba did not produce enough milk for my Grandfather. The family had to buy a goat for him. And then he ended being allergic to the goat milk so they had hire a wet nurse. Talk about crazy! I was also told, because I was well endowed that the baby might not be able to get the milk to come down. I was seriously petrified of not being able to feed my child. Well ladies don't listen to a single negative story! That would be my biggest piece of advice. I ended up producing more then enough milk for my son and so much that we had to buy a deep freezer. Read about that later.<br>
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