Breastfeeding begins during pregnancy
Most expecting parents these days will tell you that they intend to breastfeed their children. Initiation rates average around 88% in Canada but within weeks the breastfeeding rate drops significantly and by 9 months only about 18% of infants are still being breastfed. The Canadian Pediatric Society and the World Health Organization both recommend exclusive [...]
The Shaping of a Mother
I’ve been pondering lately the profound impact children have on their parents. In studying my course material the other day, I was reviewing charts which show the ebb and flow of hormones in pregnant and lactating women. Prolactin, oxytocin, and estrogen are some of the main hormones which rise and fall during various stages and [...]
Today
Holy Hell, is writing a post about me every difficult. I was going for a theme of touching on each of our family members and tonight’s post was supposed to round things out by being about me. I typed, then I deleted. Then I typed a bunch more and deleted even more than I just [...]
Ho hum
Waiting sucks. I’m not a particularly patient person at the best of times. When I get my mind set on something, I do it now. So often in my daily life I have to tell myself to be more patient. Whether it’s literally biting my tongue while Nick sputters and stalls his way through reading [...]
Some thoughts from the doorway
I’m in a limbo, that vague unpredictable world of waiting for our baby to arrive. I’m now two days past my “official” due date, a number on the calendar I don’t put a whole lot of stock in but which still served as a sort of compass point these past months. And so I sit [...]
