TERESA PITMAN Originally published October 2012 and republished with the express permission of the author. Image source: United States Breastfeeding Committee Meeting with criticism I’d arrived with my three-month-old baby for my first get-together with my extended family. Naturally, only a few minutes after everyone gathered in the living room, he began to squirm in … Read More
DIANA CASSAR-UHL, MPH, IBCLC, USA Originally published June 2012, updated January 2016 and republished with the express permission of the author. Now that your baby is here, you may be wondering what you can eat … or, more likely, you’re wondering how you’ll ever be able to eat again, especially if you’re home alone with … Read More
ANA ROMERO ALONSO, CIGALES, spain Translated by Soledad Etchemendy, Barcelona, Spain Originally published November 2015, republished here with the express permission of the author. Español I am a mother of two children born in 2007 and 2011. I want to tell you about my very atypical breastfeeding journey, a journey along a path parallel to that … Read More
ANET HENRICO, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA Originally published September 2016, republished here with the express permission of the author. How Anet is helping a vulnerable Pretoria baby. Recently, I went to Abba House Baby Shelter to drop off some baby clothes. The facility provides support to orphans and other vulnerable children to ensure that they have shelter, clothing, food … Read More
ARTHUR MOLLOY, ISLE OF MAN, UK Originally published October 2012, republished here with the express permission of the author. I am the dad of a breastfed toddler. How do I feel about our two-and-a-bit-year-old still nursing? Honestly, if you had asked me that two years ago, I think I might have been dumbfounded. Even now, I sometimes … Read More
ERIN PUSHMAN, CHARLOTTE, NC USA Originally published August 2016, republished here with the express permission of the author. What to expect—and learn—from baby’s diaper for the first six weeks. Five days into my second child’s newborn life, I opened his diaper and found what I had been waiting—no, hoping—to see: a mustard-yellow poop smeared on the … Read More
ERIN PUSHMAN, CHARLOTTE, NC USA Originally published September 2015, republished here with the express permission of the author. “The most important thing is to feed the baby,” she said. “You’re going to have to supplement.” I sat on the uncomfortable couch, pulled my new nursing cami over my breasts, and tried not to cry. Lucille, … Read More
ODETTE MILLER, CITY OF TSHWANE, SOUTH AFRICA Originally published November 2015, republished here with the express permission of the author. Photo: Smitten Photography My relactation story From the minute we found out we were expecting another little miracle (and because I didn’t breastfeed my first baby due to a lack of good information) I decided I … Read More
LINDSAY GIBSON, RANDBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Originally published September 2014, republished here with the express permission of the author. The Swahili saying “It takes more than one hand to nurse a child” is even more appropriate than the proverb “It takes a village to raise a child.” My story involved many helpers. My husband and I were … Read More
MELISSA CLARK VICKERS, HUNTINGDON, TENNESSEE, USA Originally published May 2016, republished here with the express permission of the author. “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. The mother is something absolutely new.” – Osho, Indian mystic and spiritual leader. How many … Read More