by Amy | Aug 2, 2016 | List, My Family, Pregnancy
I’ve been pregnant, trying to get pregnant or nursing for most of the past six years. So rather than owning and occupying my own body, I’ve been renting it out to some rather unruly but very adorable tenants. At 15 months old, Baby #2 is still on the...
by Amy | Mar 17, 2016 | My Family, Parenthood, Pregnancy
If you’re planning to breastfeed, a hospital lactation consultant will show you different positions for holding the baby while nursing. You’ll hear terms like “cross-cradle,” “side-lying” and “football hold.” These are...
by Amy | Aug 6, 2015 | List, My Family, Parenthood
Happy National Breastfeeding Awareness Month! Surely, you’re already aware of the health benefits, so I’m here to share one of the lesser known perks of breastfeeding: it can totally get out of stuff. Things you really don’t feel like doing....
by Amy | Apr 26, 2015 | My Family, Parenthood, Raising Girls, Siblings
I’ve been a mother of two for 17 days now and I don’t know what I was so worried about. It’s easy! The baby mostly eats and sleeps, which leaves me tons of time for imaginitive play with my 4-year-old, Viv. Why just last night, as the newborn...
by Amy | Aug 7, 2014 | List, My Family, Parenthood
One more post for World Breastfeeding Week. Before having a baby, the only thing I knew about breastfeeding was that your boobs get ginormous. As a former member of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee, I was looking forward to that — and my D-cup milk jugs did not...