Breastfeeding, blogging, and balance

Enjoying a day with my son at the Rose Parade

Hello, readers! I do realize it has been 20 days since my last post. There’s more coming, I promise. But first, I want to give you a personal update.

When I started this blog, I was working part-time while mothering my 8-month-old baby, but now I work full-time.  I’m not complaining: although it’s financially necessary, (my husband is a full-time graduate student) I truly enjoy the work I do. But the work schedule leaves me with an hour and a half every weekday evening with my son before his bedtime. It’s not enough. As soon as he’s in bed, I’m preparing lunches, laundering or packing cloth diapers, washing breast pump pieces, and packing everything up for the next day.

One post per week is challenging for me. I wish I could write faster, spend more time blogging, and post more. I’d love to interact more with the blogs I enjoy and admire. To answer the great questions some friends and readers have emailed me (sorry guys, I haven’t forgotten, especially about those milk-supply and pumping questions). I just haven’t found a way to do it all without cutting into my sleep or family time.

I’ve just had a burst of encouragement from three sources: a friend/fellow blogger who I admire recently told me she wished I posted more often; a company contacted me to do a review/giveaway of their product, and I just discovered links to some posts I have written on message boards and discussions. So I’m inspired to spend a little more time here and to let you know that The Milk is still flowing. . .