Last week, I received an email about local moms staging a “Nurse In” as a protest to the Colorado Rockies’ response to a nursing mom. And I have to admit I almost hit the “delete” button. It’s not that I don’t believe in breastfeeding in public because I do. Nor am I one to usher […]

I can think of several things my 8-month-old son finds more fascinating than nursing: The dog walking through the room, signaled by jangling tags. A referee’s whistle on TV. The doorbell, kids yelling “Go Fish!”, flies buzzing, spiders batting their eyelashes, the whir of satellites miles above us. He starts to nurse, then moments later […]

Kudos to Denver Health Medical Center! For years, new moms have been handed a gift bag full of formula samples upon leaving the hospital with their newborns. Last week, a long-awaited alternative arrived for moms who are looking for nursing support. The breastfeeding-friendly version of the discharge bag, called the Healthy Baby Bounty Bag, will […]

My three-month-old son, Archie, sleeps well for a guy his age. He usually wakes once to eat, then easily falls back to sleep. There have been a few nights lately when he’s sailed through the night, no waking. His dreams must have been sweet and his tummy well-settled. You might picture me falling back to […]