I have breastfed forever... over 70 months and counting.  If you think for one second that I have completed this momentous milestone without wine, then you do not know me at all. Another hypothetical question: How you think I keep getting pregnant?

Duh. WINE.   (Oh – and my husband is incredibly good looking.)

Raise your hand if you have ever woken up in a pool of breastmilk. Raise your hand if you know the feeling of being awoken by your rock hard, milk-filled breasts.

Did you know that breastfeeding for 2 years or more significantly lowers the chance of having cancer later in life? Yep.  It’s amazing how our bodies work.  It’s as if we were meant to birth babies AND FEED THEM.  Crazy.

Learn more about what you should include in your diet to increase your breastmilk supply.

Holy BOOBS, Batman!  The girls may have been one of the first signs that you were pregnant, as swollen, tender breasts tend to appear early in pregnancy.  Did you know though that they may also leak while you are still growing your baby?

Take it from this mom to almost 5 little ones… Nothing beats ‘breastsleeping.’ I almost choked on my midnight bowl of cheerios the other night when a friend brought this topic up through a facebook message. I instantly laughed out loud because I feel like we live in a time where no one can just do what is natural and instead must be told by some crazy rhyming-word slogan what is best for them.

I have been breastfeeding for 67 months, through 3 pregnancies with little break before each new baby was born.  We are expecting our 4^th baby in a few months and will add on at least another 2 years or more to that total.  While I am not an expert, I have a few children’s worth of experience and I was raised by a lactation consultant mother, which means that boobs have been an open topic- my entire life. So let’s talk about the boobies. Breasts. Baby-Feeding Machines.  Because that is what they are meant for: feeding babies. Pregnant with my first baby, I was shocked to learn that breastfeeding takes work, and I am so glad that I had help.  The number one thing I will recommend to you is to seek out an awesome lactation consultant, preferably one that is board certified.  She will be worth her weight in gold and every single extra penny you may spend on her.

Early breastfeeding success is dependent upon so many things lining up correctly.  There are unplanned factors that weigh in and cause havoc to unravel in almost every mother’s early nursing journey.

We at My Baby's Heartbeat Bear are huge advocates for breastfeeding and breastfeeding education. The other day, a converstaion about the beauty in tandem nursing occurred, and here I am... sharing with you what we discovered. I polled the social media black holes about breastfeeding, and these are the words that mothers used to describe nursing an infant.