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Postpartum depression, and a likely cure

Postpartum or postnatal depression is major depression some women experience after childbirth1, 2. It can eliminate a woman’s natural desire to bond with her infant3, along with the urge to nurse. In fact, when it sets in, it’s often detrimental to breastfeeding.4 Rather than face such familial agony, I propose a better way to resolve…

The Drinks Are On Me: Everything your mother never told you about breastfeeding

Much props to Veronika Robinson. As mentioned in a previous post, I’d rather have a wife who breastfeeds too much than too little. Wanting to nurse everything that breathes is more laudable than refusing to nurse even your own infant. Not only is she okay breastfeeding her toddler, as seen above, Veronika is also cool…

More from husband-baby tandem breastfeeding couple

A woman who breastfeeds her baby and husband in tandem is a beautiful, powerful, empowered, multi-tasking, divine, blessed mama and wife. No, nursing doesn’t have to have any sexual connotations. Tandem breastfeeding of child and husband could simply be family time, because women can breastfeed their husbands without being sexually aroused. Notice the beginning of…

From Bountiful Fruits/Married Milkmaid: Reunited!

Disclaimer: this post isn’t necessarily an endorsement of everything on Bountiful Fruits. Although Married Milkmaid and I are both professing Christians and ANR advocates, our blogs aren’t exactly identical in mission. I do, however, support her efforts to normalize this beautiful lifestyle.   As I sit down to write this post, I am truly a…