Welcome to the Breastfeeding Blog

It was 1991, and I was living in Oklahoma when my first baby was born.  When she was 6 weeks old I traveled to Michigan to show off my...

Ever wonder if you can overfeed a breastfed baby? Read my embarrassing La Leche League story and learn the lesson I learned the hard way.

Through most of 2020 I was worried about carrying the Covid-19 virus, not knowing it, and then inadvertently passing it along to the...

baby beloved has hit that fun teenager stage....yup, 15 years old on December 1st, 2019! Jamie Gortsema and I were working at a...

I've never written about my experiences helping breastfeeding moms in Greece in 2017 (with Syrian refugees). I looked over my notes from...

On a really warm morning I took the U (subway) again to visit another one of my counterparts….a postpartum nurse at a hospital with...

I'm writing on the long plane ride home after a lovely trip to Vienna, Austria. My husband and I attended a medical education conference...

Mike bathing Karalyn 1991

As far back as I can tell, every baby in my lineage was breastfed until me and my siblings.  My grandmother nursed all seven of her...

I helped her mama to breastfeed almost a year ago, and I had the pleasure of getting together for breakfast to talk about what went...

I got married during my last semester of college (the ripe old age of 20) and soon after graduation moved to Oklahoma City with my new ...