nursing Archives - Jessica Bates

August 2, 2017
to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week: two nursing poems & writing prompts
In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, I want to share two poems from Birth & What Came After. These two poems deal with the breastfeeding journey. The first poem, Feeding, comes near the beginning of the book. FEEDING 1 I thought it would be easy, said a new mom at the baby shower. […]

May 7, 2017
Books with Breastfeeding
In an attempt to normalize & openly discuss breastfeeding, I’m logging all books of fiction & poetry that mention breastfeeding here. [If you come across a book with breastfeeding & I haven’t logged it, please comment & I’ll add it. Thanks!] I also log all the novels (& sometimes poems) I read that include birth […]