It’s the middle of the night and your sweet little bundle of joy does what she's supposed to do... wakes up! You jump up ready for action and you can’t.see.a.thing. As soon as your feet hit the floor, you hear a yelp of pain and realize you’ve accidentally stepped on your dog in your haste to get to your whimpering baby! This is a true story - it happened to me when my firstborn was a few weeks old. I would try so hard to navigate the dark in the house during night wakings to ensure that I
night feeding
The Last Night Feeding
It was a routine I had performed over and over at least once a night, but often, more, for over a year. The monitor went off like clockwork at 5 a.m., and I climbed the stairs to my daughter’s room on autopilot. I had become an expert at navigating my house in the dark – I knew exactly how many stairs my feet had to step, when to turn so that I wouldn’t ram my hips into the kitchen table corner, and my hands never fumbled for the doorknob to her room. It was Mother’s Day, and it was the
Baby Sleep and Breastfeeding Series: Part 2
Welcome to part 2 of my Baby Sleep and Breastfeeding Series! If you are just joining us, you might want to start at part 1, where I discuss reasons why breastfeeding moms sometimes struggle with sleep. Today, I'll go over the number of times you should expect to breastfeed at night at different ages, how teething might affect breastfeeding moms, and discuss weaning. Night Feedings One of the more important things I would like to stress in this series is that when some websites or even