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The Things That Keep Me From Procreating
My husband, since the day I met him, bless him, has been all goo goo eyed about parenting a basketball team. He’s a delusional Gaston telling me nonsense like, “picture this: a rustic hunting lodge,...
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Postpartum: Remembering to Breathe
My husband gently reached over to me, lunging a baby towards me. It was 3 AM. I had just fed him at 2 AM. Shaking my head, I thought to myself, “No. No. No. I can’t. Not right now. I can’t Mom...
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Meet Lauren Wiatrek
Meet Lauren Wiatrek Hello Austin mamas! I am absolutely giddy to be writing for Austin Moms Blog. I was born and raised right here in fabulous Austin, Texas where I grew up frequenting the chilly...
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How To Dry Up Your Milk Supply
After 17 months of breastfeeding, one day my baby decided to wean herself. It was a good run, but it was time — she knew it and I knew it. My body, on the other hand, was still producing milk....
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Building A Freezer Stash of Breastmilk While on Maternity Leave
When I went back to work, I had stashed about 300 ounces of breastmilk in my freezer. Admittedly, that’s way more than the average mama needs… but I tend to be an overachiever. 😉 In all seriousness,...
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The First Year is the Hardest…
The first year is the hardest, not sure if any other mamas can relate, but for me the first year was the hardest year of my life. I am a breastfeeding, co-sleeping, and attachment parent. So my babies...
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Clogged Milk Duct…or Cancer?
A warning from one young mama battling cancer to help prevent other mamas from this fight. Twelve months ago, I gave birth to my second daughter, and immediately after she was born I knew something...
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I Share My Bed with My Kids
Before I became a parent, my sister and a few close friends of ours had already become parents so we were able to observe and let’s be honest, do what we all shouldn’t do; judge. Judge their parenting...
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What I Learned During my First Year as a Parent
When you become pregnant, many well intentioned people will want to give you advice. It might get annoying. Honestly you will get so much advice that most of it will go in one ear and out the other....
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True Confessions from a Pumping Mom
When you collectively spend weeks of your life pumping breast milk for your child, there are a lot of thoughts and incidences that happen along the way. I actually saw a post the other day from a girl...
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We Weren’t Ready to Wean…But Cancer Told Us Otherwise
I breastfed both of my daughters, my first daughter latched super easy and nursed both sides every feeding. Never burped, never spit up. Happy happy eater…happy happy mama. Then my second daughter was...
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The Real Cost of Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding. Yes I did it, but I’m going to be completely honest here — there’s a cost of breastfeeding. I don’t really like doing it. Dare I say, I kind of hated it. That being said, I still...
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Fed Is Best
This blog doesn’t serve to diminish breastfeeding but rather to share other options out there because when it comes to our children, fed is best. Two years ago, I gave birth to my first child, Henley....
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You’re Going to Miss This
I know what you’re thinking, but don’t curse me just yet. You’re going to miss breastfeeding. It’s true that in the early days of breastfeeding it’s hard to ever imagine that you’ll one day miss it....
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An Emotional Switch from Nursing to Exclusive Pumping
When it comes to breastfeeding, it’s not always black and white. There’s a little breastfeeding sister called pumping that I don’t think gets enough attention, and I’m not just talking about the...
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The Sibling Size Complex: A Big Girl And A Small Boy
I have two kids. One eats everything and the other eats nothing. One is in the 80th percentile and the other is in the 5th percentile. One is 3.5 and the other is 1.5. One is a boy and one is a...
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I Wanted a Natural Birth
When I was pregnant with my first baby I really, really, really wanted a natural birth. I had it all planned out. I was going to go to a local birthing center where their focus was on natural births...
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Life in a Nursing Bra
With the birth of my second child on Feb. 1st, life has transitioned in many ways…surviving the newborn fog, learning to be a family of four, and of course: breastfeeding. Thank goodness for no tongue...
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Reasons Why I’m Excited to Stop Breastfeeding
After the pregnancy test confirmed my suspicions there were so many decisions I needed to make. When do I tell my husband? Should I get a doula? What type of birthing classes did I want to attend? Do...
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Breastfeeding Didn’t Come Naturally, and I Wasn’t Okay
When my newborn son wouldn’t breastfeed, I completely unraveled: breastfeeding didn’t come naturally. I had planned to nurse him for his first year and simply would not accept that this might not...
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