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(Revisiting) Top Ten Nursing Must-Haves

There's not much my friend and fellow twin mama Lora Lynn does not know when it comes to all things parenting. At Vitafamiliae, she shares stories of life with seven children, and her recent How We Do series has encouraged and inspired more than a few parents in the ways of managing the chaos of family life. In May 2012, she shared this list of Top Ten Nursing Must-Haves which includes tips on how she dealt with low milk supply:

 

10 Nursing Must Haves by lora-fanning

Hi! I'm Lora Lynn of Vitafamiliae. I’m a mother to seven children. I’ve had NICU babies, twins, bed rest, c-sections, VBACs, epidurals, natural child birth, preemies, way overdue babies... I am not kidding when I tell you I’ve tried it all! And in each case, I’ve managed to breastfeed my babies in some form or fashion (with the exception of my adopted daughter, although I hear that’s possible, too!)

Over the years, I’ve gathered a list of Nursing Must-haves to help me achieve my breastfeeding goals:

when breastfeeding a toddler feels more normal than strange

Though I moved the twins from breastfeeding to bottle feeding last summer, they both are still nursing at night. My thoughts have turned once again to the experience of breastfeeding a toddler, so I thought I would re-run this post first published August 30, 2010. I look forward to hearing your thoughts!

Over at Code Name: Mama, Dionna has been running a series called Joys of Breastfeeding Past Infancy, and I have so enjoyed hearing the perspectives of others on their extended breastfeeding/full-term breastfeeding experiences have been like.

Reading through the thoughts in that series brings back fond memories for me of nursing my own girls past infancy. Dacey weaned right at two (when I was newly pregnant with AJ), and AJ weaned at twenty-one months.  That remains sorta incredible to me, considering that before I had children, I was completely skeeved out by the thought of nursing a baby who had teeth!  I just truly couldn't imagine it.  It was hard enough to imagine what nursing a newborn would feel like - but a child?  A walking, talking kid?  Weird.

So what happened?  How did I get from creeped out to nursing long past infancy?

3 D's and The Big Three: A Survival Guide to Survival Mode

Some days look like this.

Or maybe it's just us?

Last night, that little dude seen above pilfering through the fridge kept me up pretty much all night. And so, though I had big plans to be productive today, I'm choosing to accept another day of survival mode.