Tanya H asked me: I’m due in 10 weeks and am feeling nervous about not being able to produce enough milk. Did you have concerns prior to delivering and what preparation did you do beforehand that you found useful?… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Breastfeeding
World Breastfeeding Week Link-Up and Hygeia EnJoye Breast Pump Giveaway
Link your World Breastfeeding Week posts here to share them with others, and get a chance to win a Hygeia EnJoye breast pump.… Continue Reading
Visit from my mom
This weekend, my mother visited us all the way from South Carolina. Anneliese was timid at first, but she was won over with some new books. …and Joseph was happy to have another Grown-Up to cuddle with. We played in the sun… …and splashed in the water… …and as always, there was lots of cuddle-nursing.… Continue Reading
Hygeia EnJoye Breast Pump Review
As a stay-at-home mama, a breast pump isn’t the most necessary piece of baby equipment for me. But they certainly have their place, especially for working moms, or mothers who must be away from their children for several hours at a time. And an electric pump is a good thing to have around if you’re… Continue Reading
Little Loveable Joey–Almost 3 Months!
My little Joey is so loveable. It’s so fun to experience such a DIFFERENT baby. He is so wonderfully “chill” and I feel so lucky to know him. Here he is with his Grandpa Frank, and his daddy. All tuckered out from “swimming” (watching his sister swim, and being dipped and swished around in the… Continue Reading
Almost Two
In a few days, Anneliese will be 23 months. Almost two. She is really in an exciting – and difficult – phase. She’s SO nurturing and sweet, so exuberant and creative, and so frustrated (with wanting to be able to do more, communicate more, know more – FASTER) and attached right now. I think part… Continue Reading
Rebooting the Day
Sometimes you wake up and the day just seems to be all wrong… When you walk out and see this in your living room, because … well… excuses… (I didn’t hire SpiderMan to take this picture! I used my handy clip-on fisheye lens on my iPhone! I LOVE it.) And then your toddler looks like… Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Bumps
I won’t write about my breast reduction here, or how I prepared myself to breastfeed Anneliese, or how “breast is best” (but really it’s NORMAL and should be the baseline for any comparisons in infant nutrition)…but I will say I am so overjoyed that I get to have this type of relationship with both of… Continue Reading
Slowing the Pace
I posted this photo on Instagram with the caption “Had to pull over to nurse. Listening to cows. Sitting in my LLL leader’s driveway.” An IG friend, primalfamily, responded, “So sweet! It’s good to have a life paced by breast feeding.” How true that is. (Isn’t he SO BLONDE? I can’t get over the blondeness!)… Continue Reading
Francis Joseph’s Birth Day–My Healing Homebirth
My first homebirth (after a drug-free hospital birth), and the birth of my son, Joseph. Here’s the story of how we went from a family of 3 to 4.… Continue Reading
Barefoot and Pregnant in the Kitchen–Weeks 30, 31, 32, 33
Oops… I’m pretty behind on this. The pregnancy post before this one covered 3 weeks, and the one before that one was 2… so I guess it figures this one would be 4. Maybe the next post will be a BABY post (but I doubt it… I’ll try to update before then). Just the Facts:… Continue Reading
Barefoot and Pregnant in the Kitchen–Weeks 27, 28, 29 – NESTING edition
This post is brought to you by NESTING – label maker, baskets, decluttering, organizing, and so forth. With a sprinkling of tandem nursing.… Continue Reading
Hi! I'm Emily. I'm a Navy wife and stay at home mom of two beautiful children. I cook simple, delicious, grain-free recipes, do crafts, decorate my home on a budget, and keep a happy household. I tandem breastfeed, babywear, cloth diaper, practice elimination communication, homebirth, and co-sleep, but I'm not a hippie.
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