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Alcohol and Breastfeeding
Dear Amy, I am currently breastfeeding my 3-month-old, with the occasional bottle of formula here and there if I need to be away from him for more than a few hours. (Though I am going back to work...
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Midnight Pumping
Oh Dearest Amy, Thank you so much for all your sage guidance in the past regarding my wedding dress, the pregnancy calendar and bounce back! So there is one question that is running through my mind…my...
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Babies on (Nursing) Strike!
Hi Amy, I love your column! The only consolation about our current baby woes is that I finally have a question worth writing to you about. My almost-7-month-old baby has been steadfastly refusing to...
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Can Breast AND Bottle Be Best?
Dear Amalah, Like many other question askers, this one is coming from a long-time reader (even though I’ve only been a mom for 5 months). So before I had my baby, I had the philosophy that more than...
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How to Introduce a Bottle to a Breastfed Baby
Amy, I am a first time mom to a wonderful six-month old baby boy. He is sweet, lovely and all manner of precious snowflake. And if I don’t get an evening away from him, I might scream. Son is...
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Grieving the Breastfeeding Relationship That Never Was
Hi Amy, I’m a long time reader of your blog, and when I found out I was pregnant last year I started reading your pregnancy calendar and Advice Smackdown. Reading your calendar every week was one of...
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Breastfeeding & the NICU
Dearest Amalah, Let’s just start by stating that you are my mom hero. I stumbled upon your pregnancy calendar and got hooked on the advice column. Later, I found your blog. You are highly entertaining...
View ArticleDitching the Pump
Dear Amy, I have a seven month old daughter, and she is a healthy, happy little chunk. She’s always been exclusively breastfed (nursed at home, bottles of EBM at daycare while I’m at work.) But I’d...
View ArticleYes, Early Self-Weaning Is a Thing!
Hi Amy, I came across your blog post on self-weaning at ten months and boy, did it sound just like what I am currently going through. My baby girl is 9 months and 2 weeks. She was always a fussy feeder...
View ArticleThe 10-Month Breastmilk Supply Drop
Hi Amy, Wow, I have no idea what I am doing. I was so excited to do Baby-Led Weaning with my baby; she was so excited to try food! Then we gave her her first taste of banana at 6 months and lo, the...
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