It's World Breastfeeding Week!
For me, one of the wonderful benefits of breastfeeding is the fact that you don't need any gear. You will forget the diaper bag or change of clothes or favorite toy many, many times in your parenting career, but if you breastfeed, you'll never forget the milk. Nonetheless, there are some things that have made breastfeeding easier and more comfortable for me. They aren't necessary, but they can be useful.
Nursing pillows. I am able to read and even write or use my computer a little while nursing if I have a nursing pillow. For my third baby, I ditched the polyurethane foam one in favor of two natural nursing pillows. One is filled with buckwheat hulls, the other with organic cotton. I love them both. The buckwheat one has also worked really well for my baby as support/ padding for sitting.
, filled with organic buckwheat hulls.
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the entire 20 months that I nursed my first child. They worked quite well, except when they shifted around (I don't like using the adhesive), which resulted in occasional leaking. They are definitely absorbent (like disposable diapers). But I felt bad about using them. I wanted something more natural against my skin where my baby nursed. Something reusable. Something that didn't result in thousands of tiny pieces of plastic I had to keep track of and try to remember to take to a recycling center. So when I got pregnant with my second child, I decided to try reusable pads.
