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Sweet Sunday Slurp- Treasured Memories

May 16, 2010 by


Today’s Sunday Slurp is by Jennifer, a mom of 3 girls. Jennifer blogs at Uncommonly Common Thoughts about life as a military wife and mom of her 3 spirited daughters. She shares with us here about the sweetness of treasured memories now that her breastfeeding days are done. Enjoy!

One of my favorite memories of nursing my 3 children…was when I had my youngest. Knowing she was my last I tried to savor every quiet nursing moment with her. (Hard to do with 2 other young kids running around…lol!) To slow down, calm down and rather than worrying about what needed to get done next, to instead focus all my attention on my little nursling. I loved looking into her eyes & just staring into them as she ate, and having her little fist wrapped around my finger. Smothering that little hand with kisses to the background noise of her making her soft gulping noises. The “baby smell” of her…the “milk drunk” look when she was done. Treasured memories. 🙂

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Sweet Sunday Slurp- Mother’s Day flashback

May 9, 2010 by
Earth Baby, 11 and Smunchie, 5 weeks

Today’s Sunday Slurp is by The Leaky B@@b’s mom, Victoria. This is the first time I’ve heard this story and boy, does it explain a lot. I’m proud of my mom. Happy Mother’s Day to all Leakies, past, present, future and Leaky at heart.


Mother’s Day……if you are a mother everyday is a mother’s day. A work day. Being as I didn’t have hired help as in housekeeping, cooking, shopping, you get the idea. I was all of those, as motherhood goes for most. One thing unique to being a mother, that a father can’t do, is breastfeed. So, I decided that breastfeeding was important and needed. My 2 child and my first daughter was born on April 8th, about a month before Mother’s Day. I was excited and ready to take her out with me to the Mother’s Day Brunch at church. Since this was her first outing I was delighted to be going out. Jessica, my daughter, woke up happy but ready to eat while we were still at the brunch. I started to feed her. Being as this was a women only event I didn’t think there would be a problem. Wrong, it was 1978. Some thought I should go to the restroom to feed her. The restroom is not a place to rest, it is a place for waste, it is a place to change diapers, not to feed anyone. I didn’t go and started nursing at the table. I did cover up to keep the peace and keep grandma happy. She didn’t nurse me or my brother and didn’t understand. Before leaving the table to go home some of the woman started talking about nursing in public. I shared that this was as natural as life itself. It isn’t “dirty” or a sexual act, but it is bonding for the mother and child.

That Mother’s Day was special because I took my first born daughter to a brunch, shared the “freedom” of nursing, and started on the road to having a very free spirited child. Who grew up into a free spirited woman. She now has The Leaky B@@b and has breastfed all 5 of her own daughters.

In the evening, when it was just baby and me, I would occasionally have a small glass of wine while I nursed and take as much time as the baby would want to nurse. The comfort of a happy baby filled with mommy milk and that precious baby smile was the best Mother’s Day gift and I got to have that every day.

Mom of The Leaky B@@b

Smunchie breastfeeding, 3 months


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Sweet Sunday Slurp- Mother’s Day flashback

May 9, 2010 by
Earth Baby, 11 and Smunchie, 5 weeks

Today’s Sunday Slurp is by The Leaky B@@b’s mom, Victoria. This is the first time I’ve heard this story and boy, does it explain a lot. I’m proud of my mom. Happy Mother’s Day to all Leakies, past, present, future and Leaky at heart.


Mother’s Day……if you are a mother everyday is a mother’s day. A work day. Being as I didn’t have hired help as in housekeeping, cooking, shopping, you get the idea. I was all of those, as motherhood goes for most. One thing unique to being a mother, that a father can’t do, is breastfeed. So, I decided that breastfeeding was important and needed. My 2 child and my first daughter was born on April 8th, about a month before Mother’s Day. I was excited and ready to take her out with me to the Mother’s Day Brunch at church. Since this was her first outing I was delighted to be going out. Jessica, my daughter, woke up happy but ready to eat while we were still at the brunch. I started to feed her. Being as this was a women only event I didn’t think there would be a problem. Wrong, it was 1978. Some thought I should go to the restroom to feed her. The restroom is not a place to rest, it is a place for waste, it is a place to change diapers, not to feed anyone. I didn’t go and started nursing at the table. I did cover up to keep the peace and keep grandma happy. She didn’t nurse me or my brother and didn’t understand. Before leaving the table to go home some of the woman started talking about nursing in public. I shared that this was as natural as life itself. It isn’t “dirty” or a sexual act, but it is bonding for the mother and child.

That Mother’s Day was special because I took my first born daughter to a brunch, shared the “freedom” of nursing, and started on the road to having a very free spirited child. Who grew up into a free spirited woman. She now has The Leaky B@@b and has breastfed all 5 of her own daughters.

In the evening, when it was just baby and me, I would occasionally have a small glass of wine while I nursed and take as much time as the baby would want to nurse. The comfort of a happy baby filled with mommy milk and that precious baby smile was the best Mother’s Day gift and I got to have that every day.

Mom of The Leaky B@@b

Smunchie breastfeeding, 3 months


If you are interested in making a submission to be considered for Sweet Sunday Slurp, please leave a comment here or on our Facebook fan page. We’re looking for short, sweet nursing stories every week.
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Sweet Sunday Slurp- I’ll Love You Forever

May 2, 2010 by

Today’s Sunday Slurp is a beautiful submission by reader Jessica and is a beautiful story of love, family and knowing the decision to breastfeed was the right thing to do. A story of true love.

My sweet nursing story (my favorite one at least lol) happened when my son was 3 months old. It was Valentines Night and he was nursing in my arms and drifting off to sleep I was laying in bed with him nursing. I had started to sing when my husband laid behind me, wrapped his arms around us and sang with me “I’ll love you forever/I’ll like you for always/As long as I’m living/My baby you’ll be” (from the book I love you Forever Robert Munsch). That moment really cemented my choice in breastfeeding, the incredible love for my family and Nicholas (my son) agreed too. As he fell off to sleep his little lips fluttered into a smile. ♥

If you are interested in making a submission to be considered for Sunday Slurp, please leave a comment here or on our Facebook fan page. We’re looking for short, sweet nursing stories every week.

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Sadly Slothful Sweet Sunday Slurp

April 19, 2010 by

Ah yes, there is a reason I avoid alliterations.

There are some great posts coming up this week including a guest blogger.

I have a sick toddler that is in needs of loads of cuddles today with a raging fever so my blogging has been greatly hampered. Yesterday, Smunchie and I got to have a date with The Piano Man and ate at a local Spanish restaurant where we were all serenaded by a gentleman with a guitar. He sang a song just for Smunchie and she loved it. The food was great and Smunchie enjoyed her lunch as well. Nobody batted an eyelash at our NIP. The sickies set in just after we got home. It turned into one of “those” nights.

Pics from our date yesterday, courtesy of my iPhone and the new Hipstamatic App.

Spanish guitarSmunchie and the guitarist.

smiley baby guitarObviously, she’s got a thing for men that play and sing to her.

Hipstamatic app iPhoneWhat The Piano Man and I ate.

nursing babyWhat Smunchie ate.

After that excitment we came home and Squiggle Bug started acting like she didn’t feel well. I completely forgot about Sweet Sunday Slurp. I have a submission I intended to share but instead I think I’ll save it for next week and today put up a link to a mother’s breastfeeding journal. Susan works two jobs and her hubby stays home with their children. She is nursing and pumping for their 3 month old son, the youngest of 7 children. My absolute favorite post is Keeping Up With Annika where she looks back at the breastfeeding relationship she shared with her 4th child born at 28 weeks. You may want a tissue handy. I’m sure Susan would love for you to leave her a comment saying hi when you stop by if you get the chance.

Welcome to our new followers and fans, we’re thrilled you’ve join us. Pull up a chair, grab a pint, and enjoy. The crowd here will never ask you to “do that somewhere else,” cover, or give you nasty looks. We’re new and still developing, your ideas and suggestions are welcomed. Please take some time to look around and if you like what you see give us a vote to share with more moms by clicking the little banners on the side (you can vote once a day if you really love us). Oh yeah, and comments are absolutely loved, supportive, authentic words are the best. Thanks and welcome!

I leave you with this, The Piano Man and Smunchie at the chocolate shop we went to for dessert.

Hipstamatic iPhone appYummy.
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Sweet Sunday Slurp- Giggly Girl

April 11, 2010 by


Today’s Sunday Slurp is a beautiful submission by Cynthia Redding Smith and is a touching story that highlights the joy of a child in the nursing relationship, a delight that opens another heart to the benefits of nursing.

The comments from my Mother-in-law were worse then anything a stranger might say. When my daughter was three weeks old it was “Doesn’t it bother you that you are excluding her dad from any relationship with her at all?” and “Her dad was eating carrots when he was ten days old.” At three months “It would be so much more convenient if you just give her a bottle so that we can leave when we are ready instead of waiting for you to nurse her.” I guess propping a bottle for a baby alone in the backseat would be better then making her grandmother wait for her to eat…

My Mother-in-law has since moved to a different state. When she came for a recent visit she was staying over night. It was inevitable that she would be in the room while I nursed my youngest at some point during her visit. The evening came and I sat across from her in my recliner nursing as we visited. My newest nursling frequently pops off to grin and giggle up at me before continuing on her sweet, slurpy way. After several minutes of this wet giggling, gurgling, silliness my Mother-in-law looked at me with a smile and said, “Wow! She really, really likes that!” It may be the first time she ever understood at a heart level the ‘why’ of nursing beyond all the facts. We haven’t changed the whole world yet but I love it that my giggly girl helped get this very important person in our world there.


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Sundy Slurp- finding comfort.

April 4, 2010 by

Today’s Sunday Slurp is a beautiful submission by Krista Canfield and is a touching story that highlights the wisdom of a child in understanding that the nursing relationship benefits the mother as well as the nursling and has more than just the nutritional significance. Check out Krista’s Etsy!


On Kate’s second birthday we had the whole family over to celebrate. It was a typically crowded noisy affair . It is easy to see that being the center of all this attention could become a bit overwhelming for a little girl.
As bedtime drew near I put her in her jammies but let her stay up to play a little longer. When she didn’t come back downstairs to join the party I went up to her room to find her sitting on her bed, still in her party hat with her new baby doll tucked up under her shirt ” nursing”. It was the first time she had ever done this and it was priceless. It seems that she found it all too noisy and went to do the thing she found most relaxing and comforting. Proof positive that breastfeeding is about far more than nutrition.

If you are interested in making a submission to be considered for Sunday Slurp, please leave a comment here or on our Facebook fan page. We’re looking for short, sweet nursing stories every week.

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