Can breastfeeding multiples work?

Laura wrote a wonderful post this week on how hard it can be to breastfeed multiples and how it sometimes just doesn’t work. Sometimes, giving up breastfeeding is the best choice to make for your family. It wasn’t the choice that I made, but I also wasn’t faced with the hurdles that she had to cope with. I [...]

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When breastfeeding multiples “fails”

I had plans to exclusively breastfeed my boys until they were at least a year old. I read books, attended classes, lined up lactation consultants (LCs), lined up a post-partum doula, and watched videos. I was ready for anything, or so I thought. I would find I was not the least bit prepared for breastfeeding [...]

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Ask-the-MoMs: Moo Moo

This post is about, you guessed it, breastfeeding. But more specifically, it’s about the cool art-form known as tandem nursing. I wish this post could be a “how-to” deal, where any new mother could read it and follow the directions to a wonderful experience of nursing her babies. But I know better. For some moms, [...]

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Pumping For Advice

Pumping while working full-time is not for the faint at heart. It’s not even something I ever really thought I would do - but then so much of what happened when the boys came early at 33 weeks wasn’t something I ever thought I would do. Our guys never really learned to latch on well enough for me [...]

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The First Months: Actually Leaving the House

After a particularly successful outing with my nine month olds, I was reviewing the trip, analyzing it to figure out exactly why it went so well. And although I doubt I could duplicate the success of the day, I have noticed a few themes that occur more often than not on our good days. As [...]

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