Time swiftly approaches for this year’s National Blog Posting Month, NaBloPoMo! Bloggers across the blogosphere will sign up to the challenge of posting at least once a day for the entire month of November. Last year I formed a Breastfeeding and Mothering Group, which now consists of 76 members. Are you up to the challenge? (I admit, I am not up to the challenge this year. I find having a 6-year-old, a 3-year-old, and a 3-month-old challenging enough at the moment!) You are certainly not limited to posting about breastfeeding — to join our group you simply need to be …read more

People, I’m not ashamed to say I’m pooped. Thirty posts in thirty days is tough, even when I normally post an average of 24 posts per month. Did any of you other members of the Breastfeeding and Mothering Group make it? Whether or not you did, feel free to post a comment on what you thought about your participation and NaBloPoMo in general. In my opinion it’s a worthwhile experiment, a fun challenge, and a good way to discipline one’s writing habits. I didn’t see a big surge in traffic like I did in 2007 (back when I was in …read more

Seventy-five bloggers have joined the NaBloPoMo Breastfeeding and Mothering group. While it would be nice to find an easy way to create a blogroll of all the participating blogs, I’ve yet to find that. So I’ll reward those who have added their links to this discussion thread by posting a blogroll here. I can’t vouch for the blog content or whether the bloggers have kept up with NaBloPoMo (it ain’t easy!), but I am sure we can all find some interesting reading and new blogs to add to our own blogrolls.
Aurelia Ann
Beautiful Letdown
Breastfeeding 1-2-3
BreastfeedingMums
Crunchy Domestic Goddess
Down with the Kids
Ewok Mama
Half …read more

Visit NaBloPoMoNaBloPoMo 2007 is off to a great start! The Breastfeeding and Mothering group has 58 participants, more than I ever dared to imagine! If you are one of those participants, you might want to take a moment to add the link for your blog in a comment to this question about how we can create a list of all the breastfeeding and mothering blogs.

I started keeping a journal when I was 10 years old. I kept a handwritten one off and on for the next several years. During college and law school, emails to friends and family became my personal record. Finally, I graduated to keeping a journal on-line. When I started having children, I developed a strong desire to document as much of our lives as possible. I could see how quickly these years are going by, and how quickly I’d forget one stage as we moved on to the next.
With NaBloPoMo coming up in November (and 22 members of the …read more

It is time to start gearing up for National Blog Posting Month: NaBloPoMo! For NaBloPoMo, bloggers around the blogosphere commit to the challenge of posting at least one blog post per day for the month of November. I had a lot of fun with it last November. This time around NaBloPoMo allows participants to create their own networking groups, and I have set up one for Breastfeeding and Mothering bloggers to join! Please join the group if you are a breastfeeding mother and blogger who is up to the challenge of writing a post a day for the month of …read more

Welcome NaBloPoMo readers! I’m starting the month off with the first in my series of stories from breastfeeding mothers. If you’d like to contribute your own story, click here.
When I lived in Boston, I carried my daughter in the sling everywhere I went. Together we rode the subway, went for walks, shopped at the mall and even went out to eat. When my daughter was two months old, we went to Legal Sea Foods for dinner. As I waited for my order to arrive, my daughter decided she was hungry too. We weren’t yet pros at nursing in public, so …read more

Just a few administrative notes about the blog. Sorry if you’ve had trouble emailing me in the past. You can click here to email me, or use the “Email me!” link in the side bar, or type my address in your email directly (inserting the appropriate symbols): angela “at” b5media “dot” com.
Speaking of emailing me, click the links below read how to:
Submit your breastfeeding story
Submit a question for the Mom-to-Mom series
If you’re not participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge as a blogger, please consider participating as a reader! Your challenge is to comment on at least one blog (pick me! pick …read more

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