Breastfeeding challenge 2007

Yesterday 54 local moms gathered at the manitoba legislative building to bring the normalcy of breastfeeding into the public eye. Many moms are feeling pressure to nurse in private, or being discriminated against and forced to nurse "elsewhere", but this is not right. The breastfeeding challenge each year is helping to bring awareness to the rights of nursing mothers and babies. Aside from the one incident at wal-mart when danno was newborn, I have only ever had positive feedback when I NIP, and I have done so all-the-time for the last 4 years. One time on the plane I was nursing andrew and the man next to me kept smiling and telling me how lucky a baby he was to get to nurse. He didn't see it often, but was always happy to see a mom nursing her baby. He was either a devoted daddy and lactivist, or a slightly perverse man. either way, it was positive PR for nursing lol. I loved being the nursing mama on flights. I took andrew on about 30 flights in his first year and he was always the happy baby. He never cried once and the other passengers would always comment on how sweet he was. You know that look when you get, boarding the plane with a baby? "Please don't sit near me!" ya, that look... I'd get that at the beginning and then the opposite look at the end of the flight. Another time, the guy next to me didn't even realize I had a baby on my lap until I was gathering our things when we had landed. It was a much different experience being a nursing mama on a delayed flight, or even a normal flight. the bottle feeding moms had a lot more trouble calming their kids, or even had run out of formula during an extended layover...Anyways, even through nursing burnout, I am happy to be a nursing mom giving my kids the best. Breastfeeding is normal, it's not embarrasing and I do not need privacy :)

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I had a blog here before, but apparently I didn't post to it enough since I can't remember the info to access it. Even if no one ever reads this, I'd like to have a blog to keep myself accountable. Sometimes I feel like I have so many plans and no rhyme or reason to any of them. I'll just start here as long as the baby doesn't wake up.
I've been decluttering more lately, my mom came for a visit and commented that I am definitely on the right track. I've got the bedrooms decluttered very well, and the living room on the main floor is good, it just needs paint and a fireplace. I do need to work on the kitchen cabinets, but I did the dry food storage part last week and I'm appreciating the order in there now. The dishes cabinet seems to be a magnet for crap, craig's gum wrappers, medicine syringes, misplaced items etc.. That should be a good project for the weekend. Tomorrow is playgroup in the morning but in the afternoon I have work to do. The big brothers and sisters donation truck is coming on Thursday and they will take away everything I put on my front steps. So far I have 1 large trash bag full of clothing and linens, but I can get more, I am sure. Craig said he will find some things to donate and I've got a pile of the boys' clothes that are outgrown to add to it as well.
I love donating things, it seems to do our Karma some good. A few times now, when we have given away lots of things, or things with a lot of value, good things happen to us in return. I can't recall the specifics of the past, but I know that Craig has had some hesitation in giving away, but has been pleasantly surprised when the favors have been returned. Recently we bought a new washing machine, and are giving a friend our old machine that works perfectly well. Two days later, craig talked with the dentist's office that andrew went to for his recent dental work. We were supposed to owe over $200 but they said for some reason they had it in their notes to write off the expense, we didn't owe them anything :) how's that for good karma?