Listener Kate Bowman-Johnston recently interviewed me for the online magazine Catapult. I could tell from her questions that she totally got LST. And her article showed me that I was right. Read about Kate’s longest shortest time here. It involves Sitz baths and crying in the bathroom. And a song to help you get through […]
Thirty-four years after having me, my mom breaks down for the first time over not being able to breastfeed me.
Here’s what I knew about myself as a newborn before I became a mom: I weighed four-and-a-half pounds (though I wasn’t a preemie); my parents took me from the hospital against doctors’ orders, before I had gained the required amount of weight to leave; and I had shockingly orange hair (I come from two brunettes). […]
A vegetarian of 22 years decides that the way to fix her son’s umbilical hernia is to start eating meat.
You kept charts when your baby was first born. I know you did. Post yours in the new LST flickr pool!
A mom who finds breastfeeding stressful discovers that a machine helps her feel closer to her son.
Sasha turned one yesterday. It made me think all kinds of things, but lately I’ve especially been thinking about nursing. How I told myself I was going to stop at twelve months. And now here we are. Twelve months. But I feel like we’ve just recently gotten the hang of this breastfeeding thing. Am I […]
Nine months ago, during the last storm of the snowiest winter in Philadelphia history, my stomach began to gurgle loudly like a draining bathtub. It took about an hour to realize what this meant: my daughter finally wanted out.