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100 Words {for August 15}

August 15, 2012 by Amber McCann, IBCLC Leave a Comment

In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, I’m sharing from our 100 Words Project every day.   A story from Jen: It seems I’m always fighting for breastfeeding. Whether in the NICU with my baby, for friends and family who struggle, for women who get kicked out of public places. Now, I’m fighting with myself. My nursling […]

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100 Words {for August 14}

August 14, 2012 by Amber McCann, IBCLC Leave a Comment

In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, I’m sharing from our 100 Words Project every day.   A story from Marjorie: Some women climb mountains and overcome enormous challenges in childbirth and in nursing – I make no such claims. My babies were born simply, peacefully and looked at me with their wide newborn gazes, fuzzy, perfect […]

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100 Words {for August 13}

August 13, 2012 by Amber McCann, IBCLC Leave a Comment

In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, I’m sharing from our 100 Words Project every day. A story from Gina: Breastfeeding: the first days were fear-inducing, the first weeks agonizing, the first months challenging.  A healthy naturally-born baby, and he wouldn’t latch.  Thank god for my abundant milk supply, support circles, and determined stubbornness – we got through poor latch, nipple shields, […]

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100 Words {for August 12}

August 12, 2012 by Amber McCann, IBCLC Leave a Comment

In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, I’m sharing from our 100 Words Project every day. A story from Natasha: The single best experience of my entire life.  Two months after the birth of my miracle daughter, I awoke one morning with a feeling of euphoria.  All at once I realized the pain was gone, she was gaining […]

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100 Words {My Own Story}

August 11, 2012 by Amber McCann, IBCLC 1 Comment

In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, I’m sharing from our 100 Words Project every day. All the way through this project, I’ve thought I should write my own story. I can’t think of a better day to do so than the 11th anniversary of the day I became a mother.   I was mistaken…terribly mistaken.  I […]

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100 Words {for August 10}

August 10, 2012 by Amber McCann, IBCLC Leave a Comment

In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, I’m sharing from our 100 Words Project every day. Today’s post is from Joyce: Breastfeeding my two babies were two of the best experiences of my life, ones that I cherish.  I breast fed Jen and Justin for a total of 5 1/2 years !  I breast fed Jen for 2 […]

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100 Words {for August 9}

August 9, 2012 by Amber McCann, IBCLC Leave a Comment

In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, I’m sharing from our 100 Words Project every day. Today’s post is from Sara:   With my first, after a month of spitting up and fussiness, I didn’t know I had any other choice but to switch to formula.  I breastfed my second for 8 months. With my third and fourth, […]

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100 Words {for August 8}

August 8, 2012 by Amber McCann, IBCLC Leave a Comment

In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, I’m sharing from our 100 Words Project every day. Today’s post is from Vanessa: Breastfed 4 children, now ages 12, 6, 5, 4. First breastfed 2.5 years. Second and third weaned at 4 months when I got pregnant again – were not gaining enough weight and I had less milk. Fourth […]

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100 Words {for August 7}

August 7, 2012 by Amber McCann, IBCLC Leave a Comment

In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, I’m sharing from our 100 Words Project every day. Today’s post is from Vanessa:   My beautiful daughter latched on immediately. The LCs were astounded and I was smug. Then it started to hurt. For three weeks the pain was horrible, so bad in my right breast that my husband had […]

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100 Words {for August 6}

August 6, 2012 by Amber McCann, IBCLC Leave a Comment

In celebration of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, I’m sharing from our 100 Words Project every day. Today’s post is from Katie: I never understood aversions to breastfeeding, but I also didn’t understand deep emotional connections to it.  But that’s because I hadn’t experienced the joy of feeling my son latch for the first time.  I hadn’t felt the sinking pit […]

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