The Badass Breastfeeder

I am offended when I am driving down the street and I see the person in front of me has hung a pair of testicles from the back of their car. I am offended by littering. I am offended by cigarette smoke. I am offended by people playing loud music in their car disrupting my peaceful day. I am offended by …

I don’t remember the first time that I breastfed my daughter. I remember the first time that I held her; her little body warm and slimy against my skin after a grueling 44 hours of labour.  I remember her being placed on my chest and watching, as if through goggles, as her little head turned in search of my nipple.  …

I have been Exclusively Pumping (EP) for 32 months at the end of September. My story in a nutshell is my daughter was born 6 weeks premature, she was in NICU for 2 weeks but she developed oral aversions due to being intubated. I tried to breastfeed but she would scream if anything touched her mouth so I started pumping …

Abby, aka the ‘Badass Breastfeeder’, answers the question on every new mom (and dad’s) mind: ‘Is there sex after baby?” “If someone had asked me about sex after Jack was born I might have said that it would never occur again in my lifetime. I read in various places that I should wait 4-6 weeks, but I ignored it. I had …

You have so much to do. Your to-do list is long. Your day is short. The kids need something. You must hurry to get all this done! First things first. Are you happy in this moment? In this mindset of GO, GO, GO!? I personally hate it. I feel overwhelmed. I feel like a failure and ultimately Jack feels left …

I once posted this photo of Jack playing on a cat scratcher in front of our book shelves and someone commented that it is a miracle that the books are still on the shelf. I wanted to share what we did to make that happen. I used to try to stop him. After all these are the books we have …

My nursing journey. It was arduous, to say the least. I had a traumatic emergency cesarean, and Cain lost a lot of weight afterwards. The LC’s all said his latch was fine, but my milk didn’t come in for five days, and he wasn’t transferring. I found out (after learning what it even was) that he has a tongue tie. …

Self-care is definitely one of those things that is easier said than done. Even the most well intentioned people set out to make time for themselves and create a healthy mind and body, but still fall short at the mercy of this pressure cooker called motherhood. It’s really easy to tell people they need to take care of themselves, it’s …