10. Find Your Mama Tribe: You will make friends. I mean you actually will make friends. The place is teeming with moms. They even have mom to mom contact cards lying around so that you can easily exchange contact information with the people you meet and want to see again. The atmosphere is tailored to celebrate all of the beauty in motherhood, to bring moms together who are in similar places in their parenting journey and to strengthen bonds between us. You’d think it was like a party for moms or something. Oh, wait… [Read more…]
“Our Son is My Hero”
By Badass Kortney
I’m the mother of five beautiful children and wife to an amazing man. Our oldest son, Hutson is 11, then we have a set of boy/girl twins, Deacon and Finley who will be 3 next week and then our second set of boy/girl twins, Piper and Harvey. We did IVF to conceive both sets of twins after 6 years of secondary infertility. I was able to breastfeed my first set of twins for 16 months before they self weaned. Piper and Harvey are 8 months old and still going strong. This is my story… [Read more…]
How and Why to Stir the Pot
How to Stir the Pot
This is the easy part.
1. State your opinion about anything.
2. Post a photo of yourself breastfeeding. Or bottle-feeding. Or holding hands with someone of the same sex, holding hands with someone of a different race, with makeup, with no makeup, fat, skinny, with cleavage, without cleavage, eating a conventional (non-organic) apple. [Read more…]
Breastfeeding in the Military: The Story of a Marine Mother
By Badass Meg
I never gave breastfeeding much thought. If you did you did and if you didn’t you didn’t. I was never the one to stare or praise or run and hide because I saw boob. I was an active duty Marine when I became pregnant with my first. I still hadn’t given it much thought when I went in for a check up and my OB asked me how I was feeding DS. My husband started explaining we hadn’t talked about it and I piped up with breastfeeding. [Read more…]
Ask an Expert: Breastfeeding and Dental Cavities
By Wendy Wisner, IBCLC
***Ask an Expert is a blog feature hosted by a team of International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs). Once a month each IBCLC randomly chooses a question from The Badass Breastfeeder Facebook wall and provides their response on the blog.
Fan Question:
“I have a question. My 11 month daughter has a brown speck on one of her front teeth. I have been doing some research and it may be a cavity caused by night nursing. Has anyone had this problem? I’m taking her to the dentist tomorrow I’m just curious if this happens often. Thanks!”
I’m glad you’re taking your baby to a dentist to get a proper diagnosis. Stains on teeth can be caused by any number of things. I hope it’s not a cavity! [Read more…]
Ask an Expert: Relactation
***Ask an Expert is a blog feature hosted by a team of International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs). Once a month each IBCLC randomly chooses a question from The Badass Breastfeeder Facebook wall and provides their response on the blog.
By Anne Smith, IBCLC
Fan Question:
“I am currently trying to relactate. I work full time Monday thru Friday from 8-5, and my job doesn’t allow me much time to pump. I hand express whenever I can, and then I try to latch her on as soon as I get home. The problem is that she gets really mad when not much milk comes out and she keeps pulling off the breast. I’m getting very discouraged. What else can I do?” [Read more…]
Breastfeeding While on Active Duty Marine Corps
By Badass Cara
I breastfed my daughter while on active duty Marine Corps, actually working as a recruiter which yields 80-120 hour work weeks. [Read more…]
