Category: motherhood
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Suck It, La Leche League (from the Momplex Blog archives)
My breasts are founts of liquid gold. At least La Leche League thinks so, and my baby boy seems convinced. Perhaps that’s why I love breastfeeding. When nothing else is going right with the baby stuff, breastfeeding buoys us. Even if I can’t figure out the source of a given problem, nursing almost always works,…
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Not Enough Mom to Go Around (from the Momplex Blog archives)
From the Momplex Archives: My better half (and I really mean that) has been gone for almost three weeks, working on getting a bunch of soldiers ready for deployment. He’s in the National Guard, and what’s normally a two-week annual training in the summer turned into a three-week annual training in December. I miss all…
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S’more Fun than a Backyard Barf-a-que: A Cautionary Tale (from the Momplex Blog archives)
This week the Mister and I got it in our fool heads that we should let Miss E, our four-year-old, have a campout sleepover in the backyard. Yes, our four-year-old. Yes, a sleepover. And yes, in the back yard, which is about the size of a large-ish bathroom, doesn’t have a fence, and shares an…
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