When the girls are happy, mama’s happy!

I am super, super, super excited about this review. A) because I am a huge dork and get geeked out about things I love and b) because I am all about nursing, as you probably know. And in a few months, the girls are gonna be back in action nursing a new baby for approximately one to two years!  Due to having gained most of my pregnancy weight in my BEWBS, I already needed a new bra or two to wear.  Tricia has been raving about Bravado Designs for months, so I contacted them (yes, I am a total ho.  Feel free to judge me.) to see if I could review one of their nursing bras that was also good for pregnancy.  And ta-da!  They said YES!  And I have been, for the past 36 hours, in total, wonderful comfort thanks to this:

The Bravado Body Silk Seamless nursing bra.  It is soo comfy!  I haven’t worn a bra without wires in for-ev-ah, so I was a little nervous about that but WOW this gives plenty of support without underwire and it really is like a second skin.  I could not love it anymore.  I went through lots of nursing bras in the combined 36 months that I nursed Joshua and Sophie, and I never had one anywhere near this nice!  It’s got lots of rows of hooks on the back to expand with your expanding pregnancy/nursing bustline, and it has removable molded cups that put juuuuust the right of material between my skin and my shirt.  I like a wee bit of lining and this is perfect – plus, you can totally remove them if you don’t want them, or when you need extra room for nursing pads. Oh! And even though I am obviously not nursing yet – I went ahead and gave the clasps a try to see how easy they were to open and close with one hand. SO easy!  And they lie flat under your clothes.  This whole bra stays nice and invisible under your clothes.  I wore a pretty fitted tank top the other day and you couldn’t see anything underneath – it was perfect!

This bra comes in lots of pretty colors and I am DEFINITELY getting another one.  I love it so much that I can’t wait to try out all the other Bravado styles!

Bravado is also a company that is all about helping other women, which I love!  Along those lines, in support of Breastfeeding Awareness Month, Bravado is giving you the opportunity to be a HERO to a favorite organization of yours that helps women.  Go here to Bravado’s site and nominate an organization that is exlempary in helping women.  If your organization is chosen, Bravado will donate 1,800 nursing bras in YOUR NAME!! You can nominate as many times as you like, and you will be entered to win a Bravado nursing wardrobe of your own.  So head over to the site and be a hero – there are only a few days left to enter!

Thanks Bravado for giving me this awesome bra to review. I know I’ll enjoy it for many, many months to come!

**Updated to add** Bravado Designs now has a 20% off coupon code you can use!  It is good through Labor Day, Monday September 6th.  Just enter LDAY-195 at checkout for 20% off your online purchase.  Rock on!!

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It’s Almost Over.

I think Sammy is weaning himself.

He’s nearly 15 months old, and I know I should be prepared for this and ready for it to happen, but quite honestly I’m not. It makes me sad to think that he’s getting so big and that he’s not an infant anymore. I logically know this is true, but still, he is my baby.

We’ve been down to just nursing at night and sometimes in the mornings (when I’m trying to get a few more minutes of shut-eye), but lately Sammy hasn’t been nursing in very long stints – something much more exciting is always going on around him, and he’s soon ready to crawl off to find a ball or play with his sister. And the number one sign he’s just not that into it anymore – he doesn’t point and squeal at my laptop the way he used to when he wanted to nurse. (What? He thinks my laptop is somehow related to the nursing process, since it’s omnipresent when we sit down on the couch. Is that not normal??)

Tonight he was super tired and ready for bed, but I wanted to nurse him to sleep. I don’t normally do that, but tonight I wanted to pay attention, to make sure I remembered this night if in fact it turned out to be the last time he nursed. So we sat in the rocking chair in his room as we’ve done so many times before, and I just stared at him, trying to burn his soft little baby face into my memory. I want to remember everything about him.

He is my baby.

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I’m (not) Pumpin’ Up the Party Now

Today was a big milestone for me.

I pumped for the very last time.

And I am so relieved.

No more packing and unpacking, or washing all of the 9000 parts every night. No more schleping the pump back and forth to work anymore. No more trips to vacant parking lots in the freezing cold because there’s nowhere in my office to take care of business. No more business trips with a van full of colleagues wondering why I have a heavy Trader Joe’s freezer bag on the way home that I didn’t have on the way there.

No more worrying that I’m going to be pulled over on my way to and from work and have to explain why I’m half naked.

So yeah, I’m relieved.

I have been counting down the days, really, but now I’m surprised to find I am kind of sad about it in a weird way. Sammy will be a year old on Thursday. He’s not a baby anymore. And while I’m planning to continue to nurse him when we’re together, he no longer relies on me when we’re apart.

I’m just not sure I am ready for that.

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