modern primitive mom

It turns out that painful nipples while nursing is a product of a poor latch! There are some videos here that show proper latching and explain why poor latch causes all those painful issues, as well as some other eating issues.

I have started reading Breastfeeding Made Simple, and I am shocked by how unnatural my baby’s birth now seems!
I knew that my baby’s birth would not be terribly natural. He was breech and because of my uterus shape the doctors said there was no use trying to turn him. He also came a month early, [...]

When I was pregnant I was extremely sick, for the entire duration. For the first 3 months the OB would not see me because of a hospital rule against seeing women until the 2nd trimester. During that first trimester the nurse on call recommended saltines (ug), some over the counter medication that didn’t work, those [...]

A while back I had a conversation with one of my coworkers about breast feeding. I said that I thought babies would naturally wean themselves when they were done nursing. And my co-worker retorted that if that were true, he would not have been subjected to the trauma of seeing a walking, talking child nursing. I [...]

I am a new(ish) mom who has been extremely irritated at the flack I get for loving my baby as much as possible from the ‘cry it out’ generation as well as from my own generation. I am on a quest to find out why they so many people are bothered by breast feeding and [...]