So it has been a few weeks since I posted about my adventure in nursing my son Esuyawkal, here is what has been happening.
I tried the SNS and It is was a disaster:( I felt like an octopus with milk spraying everywhere from the teeny tiny tubes. The nipple shield would not stay on and [...]
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29 Oct
Nursing update
28 Oct
Giardia meds
So as I have mentioned before Esu came home with giardia which is very common all around the world. He is currently on antibiotics for this and is showing improvement. The medication that Esu is on for his giardia is called, Metronidazole, and it is nasty. The taste is horrid even though it has been [...]
28 Oct
And so it begins, “The sick season”
“The sick season” is what I affectionately call fall and winter, it did not used to be that way but since having had kids that pretty much is the way it is. Last year I don’t think we went more than 2 weeks without someone getting sick, last year was a nightmare that at times [...]
9 Oct
Adventures in nursing my adopted son
I have had a lot of people ask me how nursing my son Esuyawkal is going, so I thought I would share how this adventure is going.
I would first like to say that I am one of those women that has and is nursing her children longer than two years. If this is something that [...]
14 Aug
Big baby = New baby carrier
So today I got this really funny e-mail from a fellow adoptive parent that is over in Ethiopia right now picking up her child. Here it is:
Greetings from Ritmo!Shonah your baby is HUGE! I think his is the biggest of the babies:)He was sleeping when I was there so I couldn’t play with him…
I love [...]
11 Aug
Attachment parenting
For several weeks now the subject of Attachment Parenting has been coming up in different circles that I am involved in and it has gotten me thinking. What is the most effective way to describe Attachment Parenting? As someone that practices this method of parenting I should know the answer right?
The thing is Attachment Parenting [...]
