Let me just start by saying that babies rock! Really, they do! Before we started this whole Elimination Communication (EC) thing, I really didn’t imagine it would be all that successful.  I mean, I read all the books on EC, with little babies peeing on command.  But when I imagined how I could make that work with my own little baby, I initially had a little trouble imagining it.
But here I am with my 12 week old baby, and today I took her outside on 5-6 separate occasions and cued …

Welcome Carnival of Breastfeeding readers! This month we are writing about Nursing in Public. Please read more of the posts, found at the bottom of this post. More links will be added through Monday
Whenever I nursed my first two children in public, in the United States, I was almost always confident and sure of myself.  I never used a cover-up, and I nursed just about everywhere I went.  Restaurants, stores, parks, museums. Sure, in the first few months of nursing my first child, public nursing made me a little nervous.  …

Welcome to April’s Carnival of Breastfeeding!
This month’s theme is “how to.”  Be sure to check out the contributing bloggers’ posts, linked at the bottom of this post.
As I come closer and closer to the birth of my third child, I’ve had to remind myself what a challenge the act of tandem nursing can be.  When my second baby, J, was born, I nursed her in tandem with M, her 2.5 year old brother.  I continued to tandem nurse for another 2.5 years, when M self-weaned at the age of 5.  …

And they call Arp by his first name too.  M at age 6, and J at age almost-4 have been calling us by our first names for years now.
It not a big deal in our house, but I’m sometimes caught off guard when other people question it.

Thanks to the Canadian Lactivist for her post on Anytime, Anywhere, I thought I’d try to come up with a list of the many, many places I have nursed my children. Always without any kind of cover-up. Thankfully, I have never been discriminated against in any way, although I unfortunately know women who have been. U.S. laws pertaining to breastfeeding discrimination need to be made stronger in the U.S. We need to have laws that clearly spell out punishments for those that discriminate against breastfeeding mothers.
In honor …