Hellobee

I’ve been able to breastfeed both my boys and overall I consider my nursing experiences to be mostly positive. In fact, weaning Crumb at 14 months old was incredibly difficult on me emotionally because I was not ready for it to end. However, the beginning of our nursing journey was one of the most painful times of my life […]

My breastfeeding journey is long over, but I wanted to share one of the toughest challenges I faced as a breastfeeding mother: Thrush. It developed when J was just about four months old, and I’m not sure it ever fully went away until I stopped breastfeeding. Initially I had no idea what was going on; my […]

I’ve become intimately familiar with these fascinating milk-making things called breasts over the past seven months. I fancy myself the “milkies” expert in our home! Before baby S arrived, I took a breastfeeding class and knew from friends that breastfeeding would likely be difficult for about the first six weeks, but that was the extent […]

This is a guest post from my friend Andi, who also inspired my Sons vs. Daughters post. ~~~ I had somehow forgotten about my breastfeeding stories until I started reading Hellobee.  Then it all came flooding back.  I’m not sure how I even managed to forget about the last experience… especially when it ended with […]

After GeekinHeels shared her experience with recurring bouts of mastitis followed by thrush, I did a bunch of research into the topic. The antibiotics you take to get rid of mastitis kills the good bacteria and bad bacteria in your system, leaving you more susceptible to thrush and other yeast infections.  Kellymom, the breastfeeding resource out […]