March 22, 2010

my nursing story, 2006-2007

With my first son, we had trouble breastfeeding from the start. My nipples wouldn’t harden after my epidural and he struggled to latch onto my floppy boobs those first few hours. It seemed to set off a chain reaction of bad latching. For weeks and weeks, we’d both cry until he finally opened his [...]

March 18, 2010

on achievements

Lately I’ve seen many welcome, inspiring mentions of the achievements of women in the blogging community. Liz at Mom101.com recently posted an inspiring list that had me literally murmuring “fuck yeah!” at my laptop’s monitor.

(But?) Today I started thinking about achievements.

What does achievement mean to you? What deserves accolades?

A movie deal? [...]

March 16, 2010

marching on

Last night I said, “Let’s all take a Star Wars shower.”

Because these days I have trouble catching my breath, I struggle to get out of my head, I dread the evenings and the time when the sun goes down and I’m left trying to sort out my pieces.

(It all sounds [...]