Extended breastfeeding

I first wrote about Davina many years back when I first heard there was a woman breastfeeding triplets! To hear her journey from the beginning, head here to my category on Breastfeeding triplets. It’s amazing and wonderful to read her experiences now, five years later and yes…”STILL” breastfeeding her beautiful triplets. Here she is, in her […]

"Extended" Breastfeeding Archives - The Badass Breastfeeder

Toddlers and nursing boundaries. Let's face it, anyone who is breastfeeding a toddler knows that it is a totally different ball game to nursing a newborn.

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There is no perfect or right time to stop breastfeeding your baby or toddler. The health benefits of breastfeeding continue for as long as you breastfeed.

Image by Chantal R Mercier || There are many benefits to breastfeeding and extended breastfeeding. It is the most natural thing in the world for example and it should be normalized, celebrated even! It isn’t easy, it’s actually very difficult, it is exhausting and it can be painful. However, all the sacrifice that comes with it, it’s completely worth it even more.

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AMMA on Instagram: ""I didn't teach my membranes how to rupture, or my uterus how to contract, or my oxytocin how to rise. No doctor commanded my relaxin to peak, or my cervix to dilate, or my sacral promontory to shift anterior-inferior, or my pelvis to translate laterally. No one taught my baby how to extend her thorax when her spinal galant reflex was activated as my birth canal squeezed her right. No intellectual handed her a roadmap to guide her occiput-anterior as she crowned. She didn

Breastfeeding can be a polarizing topic. Women who breastfeed sometimes like to shout loud and proud about the benefits of breastfeeding and tout it as the best way to feed a baby. Then there's the