Breastfeeding My 3 Year Old

Breastfeeding My 3 Year Old

“Breastfeeding my three year old.” Words I never thought I would be saying. Normal term breastfeeding is not common in my family. The few times my family mentioned breastfeeding a toddler, or young child, it was portrayed as something negative and...
One Year Later: My Tandem Nursing Journey

One Year Later: My Tandem Nursing Journey

As I dipped my hands into the flour and water mixture and spread the wet newspaper over the balloon it hit me. This owl pinata made me realize that my Baby Bear wasn’t going to be a baby for much longer. She will be one at the end of August. I nursed her for her...

I Kind of Always Knew I would Breastfeed

My mother breastfed me for a few months but encountered many problems and lack of support as a single teen mother. She breastfed all three of my siblings for some months. The most anyone nursed in my family was around 18 months. Both my nana and her mother never even...