I know that this is going to sound absurd, but the breasts are actually mine. yes, they feed you and they are soft and comfy but no, you may not sleep cuddled up to one.

I’m sorry honey, but mommy’s breasts are not a stuffed animal…

love you!

p.s. why MUST you be so incredibly cute?!?

so baby k and i went to our first baby shower today. last week we had some tummy issues with her which resulted in the most amount of baby vomit i’ve ever seen in my life followed by some rash/baby acne on her face. all of these things going on with her have me super hesitant to let most people hold her. on top of the fact that i’m selfish with her and her dad, papa bear, is pretty supportive of my selfishness.

but today we were going to a baby shower where we knew the people and i knew that they would want to hold her. i asked my mom what i should tell them when they asked to hold her. her response? oh, just give her to me. -wrong- this was plaguing me because i didn’t want to be rude but i also need her rash to get better and i don’t want all these people who’s hands could be dirty holding my child. (yes, i’m a slight germ-a-phobe).

when we got there i decided to leave her carseat in the car and use my “ladebelle wrap” which actually turned out to be a big hit. (as it was at my la leche meeting i went to). with baby k wrapped nice and snug to her mama bear, no one asked to hold her and i didn’t have to seem rude when i didn’t want to share her! at the end of the shower, i even had one lady come up to me and tell me that i was smart for not passing my baby around!

*kudos to me!*

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Shana Abé

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yeah, we breast feed in public and what!

(sporting my nursing cover here)

and I breast feed in public… I didn’t just whip the milk bar out all reckless like but yesterday we went shopping and she got hungry in the store.

I didn’t want her screaming and carrying on in the store nor did I want her starving because mommy needed some things. so I did what any pro-breast feeding hippie would do.

I put my nursing cover, unbuttoned my shirt, popped my breast out and into her mouth in 5 seconds flat. she ate and was happy while I continued my shopping excursion. I was pretty nervous yet excited because where else was I going to use this cover? but what if some hater approached me? I would probably encourage them to get some business but still…

yep, I’m a rebel and there’s no disguise!

like i said in my previous post, baby k has not been feeling well today. her dad and I were on the phone for our nightly chats and i was telling him how she’d been acting all day. she starts to scream and won’t take the breast or pacifier. I’m walking with and that’s doing nothing.

so I do what an ex-childcare worker from crunch fitness would do—I bounced with her on my pilates ball. and that’s when it happened. baby k went “the exorcism of Emily rose” on me. she covered us both in vomit from head to toe.

as I sat on the pilates ball covered in baby spew the only thing I could wonder in amazement was where in the hell had she been keeping all this?!?! I hurried off the phone with bkd and walked into the livingroom asking my mom if this amount of spew was normal already knowing the answer.

it wasn’t buy baby k looked 100% better. I decided the best thing to do was for both of us to hop in the shower.. so yep, baby k had her first shower tonite and she loved it. after bonding in the shower she was even better.

and now, now she’s sleeping peacefully on my chest. I know I said this is a no-no but whatever… I’m just happy she’s ok…