Category: ’Breastfeeding Past Infancy’
Delaying Solid Foods
If we want our children to love food in a way that’s healthy, in a way that truly nourishes body, mind and soul, we have to pull ourselves out of the excitement for long enough to look at how and what we are feeding them. Read More…
7 Comments | Posted in Breastfeeding Past Infancy, Feeding With Love, Healthy Living, Starting Solids
Toddler Mealtime Schedules?
An NPN reader asks our natural parenting mentors: I have a question about my son and a schedule. My son is 18 months old and I still breastfeed, but of course he eats solids too. I always try to get him to sit and eat. He is a pretty picky eater. I can get him to eat a few things … Read More…
2 Comments | Posted in Ask an NP Mentor, Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Past Infancy, Consistent Care, Feeding With Love, Healthy Eating, Healthy Living, Routines and Schedules, Starting Solids
What to Do When Baby Bites While Nursing
There comes a time that every breastfeeding mother dreads. It’s that time when your sweet cuddly baby turns into a drooling, biting monster. Some women fear this moment so much, they stop nursing altogether just to avoid being bitten, but that’s not necessary. Many babies bite when they’re teething or when they are bored or impatient, and it can be … Read More…
6 Comments | Posted in Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Past Infancy, Feeding With Love, Gentle Discipline, Responding With Sensitivity
Side-Lying Nursing: A Breastfeeding Tutorial
I want to put a tutorial out there for how to breastfeed lying down, because it makes such a significant difference to how enjoyable cosleeping and breastfeeding will be for most mamas. If you want to get the best sleep, I highly recommend learning side-lying nursing early on! Read More…
13 Comments | Posted in Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Past Infancy, Cosleeping, Feeding With Love, Nighttime Parenting, Safe Sleep
How to Cosleep Safely
I decided to do a little presentation in pictures of exactly how we cosleep safely, and have since Mikko was born three years ago. Read More…
9 Comments | Posted in Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Past Infancy, Cloth Diapers, Cosleeping, Ecological Responsibility, Elimination Communication, Family Safety, Feeding With Love, Safe Sleep
Toddler Nursing Under Cover
Why breastfeed past infancy? It’s healthy for kids: Nursing toddlers have fewer illnesses and illnesses of shorter duration than their non-nursing peers. It’s nature’s vaccine: Some of the immune factors in breastmilk actually increase in concentration during the second year. Read More…
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Mama Milk Dance!
If I hadn’t nursed beyond one year, I would have never been able to enjoy Kieran’s impish grin before his inevitable toddler nursing gymnastics; the request for “mama milk dance!” as we swept across our living room dance floor; or waking up to his big blue eyes locked onto mine as he hugged my chest and sleepily murmured “love mama milk.” Read More…
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