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Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding, nursing bras, pumping, doing it in public — loving it, hating it, or just surviving?! We’re here for you.

Breastfeeding resources for rookies

September 6, 2010

Annie (@phdinparenting) compiled an extremely helpful list of go-to references for nursing moms and moms-to-be. She has been blogging about the art and science of parenting at the PhD in Parenting Blog since May 2008. Nursing mom picture via flickr christyscherrer Here are Annie’s top six resources: Kellymom: Kellymom is the one of the most [...]

Flashback Friday: A look at August

September 3, 2010

First, some real nostalgia. I looked back in our archives and saw what we published on this same day in 2006: Spend a week in Hampstead (London, baby!) The mom who wrote up this one week itinerary for baby-friendly London now lives in our fair city of Berkeley, California, and the baby she was writing [...]

Breastfeeding, nursing bras, pumping, doing it in public — loving it, hating it, or just surviving?! We’re here for you.

5 sexy nursing bras

August 16, 2010

We asked our friend Kristen Chase, aka The Mominatrix, to help us help new moms upgrade to at least one nursing bra that doesn’t look like it belongs to my grandmother. The first few months of motherhood are far from sexy – that is unless you find leaky boobs, gigantic maxi pads, and under eye [...]

Whip ‘em out

August 8, 2010

I thought this pro-breastfeeding video from the folks at TheBump.com was really cute. In fact, I wish it were a little longer, and you don’t often think that about a PSA. Good job, celeb moms!

Breastfeeding, nursing bras, pumping, doing it in public — loving it, hating it, or just surviving?! We’re here for you.

Erin’s Two Very Rookie Summers

July 30, 2010

Time for the fifth edition of our Very Rookie Summer series. Erin Goettsch shares two different days from her life as mom including her lessons learned the hard way taking a baby swimming. Baby Nathan taught his mama how to treat a baby at the pool; baby Anneliese benefited. Read more from Erin at her [...]

Leggings that postpartum women will want to make out with

July 27, 2010

Summer in San Francisco means bundling up in a sweater and cursing that “this is supposed to be July!” The dresses hanging in my closet might feel neglected, except that I have come to learn that instead of wishing it was warm enough to go bare-legged, I need to move on with my life and [...]

Breastfeeding, nursing bras, pumping, doing it in public — loving it, hating it, or just surviving?! We’re here for you.

Put your own oxygen mask on first

July 26, 2010

Hopefully, this is only a metaphor for survival, but also a friendly reminder… you’re not doing your baby any favors by overlooking your own needs. Seize the opportunities to drink water, eat food, lubricate contact lenses, and pee when you need to. In the middle of the night, when Holden cries for food or comfort, [...]

Deb and Leah’s Very Rookie Summer

July 23, 2010

Ready for the fourth momoir in our Very Rookie Summer series? Our pal Deb shares a blow-by-blow(-out) account of her day with baby Leah. We appreciate the geeky attention to detail as well has her sense of humor in this mega-did-do-list. A Day in the Life of a Almost 3-Month Old in San Francisco 7:30am: [...]

Breastfeeding, nursing bras, pumping, doing it in public — loving it, hating it, or just surviving?! We’re here for you.

5 things I have learned from Whitney

July 22, 2010

Whitney and I have been friends since 1996 when our then-boyfriends were best friends with each other. We used to share adventures before there were babies on the scene: being short at concerts, snowboarding in the slow lane, dancing (but not late), crafting, clothes-swapping, London, etc. Since Julian is six months older than my rookie [...]

Elizabeth and Zaida’s Very Rookie Summer

July 16, 2010

Allow me to present the third installment of our Very Rookie Summer series. Elizabeth shares two different days from her life with baby Zaida that are seven weeks apart. We love her stories for reminding us so fully of what a difference a few weeks not-quite-two months can make in the life of a rookie [...]

Breastfeeding, nursing bras, pumping, doing it in public — loving it, hating it, or just surviving?! We’re here for you.

Leonora and Willa’s Very Rookie Summer

July 2, 2010

Leonora Pitts shares her adventures with eight-week old Willa. They live in Atwater Village, Los Angeles. Her infant blog is Butter and Whiskey. We can’t thank her enough for kicking off our Very Rookie Summer series with her story. My baby girl, Willa, was born eight weeks ago. Inspired by the Rookie Moms book and [...]

Happy Cows = Happy Moms

June 30, 2010

I guess I don’t watch enough TV with commercials, because when I told friends that I was going to visit a dairy farm and when I tweeted about being on the dairy farm, people asked me if the cows were Happy Cows. I took that to mean that my friends were deeply concerned about ethical [...]

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