Interview with Jessica of Breastfeeding Basics

Share I met Jessica online when I was researching home birth over 3 years ago, and we’ve been long distance buddies since. She has challenged me to question everything for myself, rather than relying on the mis-information spread by the media about such important things as health, childbirth, breastfeeding, and parenting. She’s a mother of [...]

Baby Eczema

Sharecotton clothing, rather than synthetics like polyester (including fleece!), helps clear up baby eczema My second baby, a boy, started having dry patches of skin when he was a couple weeks old. By a month old it was many patches of dry rough skin on his tummy that I was pretty sure were eczema. Thankfully [...]

Mastitis: Treatments, symptoms, and causes

Share I had been fortunate enough to avoid getting so much as a plugged duct in my first 2-1/2 years of breastfeeding experience (I nursed my first child through my second pregnancy). Then a few weeks ago I got mastitis, which is really as awful as I had heard it was. On Saturday I had [...]