{"id":1525,"date":"2011-06-10T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2016-08-05T22:04:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T04:04:29","slug":"my-soft-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/10\/my-soft-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"My soft spot."},"content":{"rendered":"

You may not know this, but I have a soft spot for one of the products we sell.<\/p>\n

It’s nearest and dearest to my heart. Why? Because it’s exactly what I wished I had for so many many years, so many years ago.<\/p>\n

Our nursing pads.<\/p>\n

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My children have all grown up well beyond the nursing stage now. My eldest will be 20 in just two months. My youngest, our twin girls, are now 11.5 years old.<\/p>\n

I have not nursed a child since they were just 2.5 years old.<\/p>\n

It feels like just yesterday Julia looked up at me when she tried to nurse, and let out a little cry, and said, “Wawa (her way of saying Shaylah, her twin sister) drinked all my milk…”<\/p>\n

I knew then that our nursing days were over. My milk was now gone.<\/p>\n

In total, I’ve nursed five babies for 108 months of my life.<\/p>\n

During that entire time, I always wanted some awesome nursing pads. I was a soaker, a super soaker. I wanted super soaker nursing pads that could withstand my super soaking needs.<\/p>\n

However, at that time I didn’t know about pul, organic cotton fleece, and other such high quality fabrics that could help me.<\/p>\n

So instead, I made myself reusuable nursing pads out of flannel from the local fabric store, and, of all things, baby plastic pants.<\/p>\n

I cut out tear drop shapes, and sewed them onto the backs of my homemade contoured nursing pads.<\/p>\n

I had no pretty colorful pul back then. Such a thing didn’t even\u00a0exist in Canada! But the plastic pants, purchased at a local thrift store, actually did suffice fairly well!<\/p>\n

BUT, when I learned of pul… and absorbent organic fabrics…
\nI was in awe. TOTAL awe! These amazing fabrics that could withstand leaks, even leaks like those of mount milkie! I wished I had discovered these fabrics years before, but was so VERY happy I had discovered it now!<\/p>\n

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Maybe I couldn’t help myself, as my nursing days were now over, but I could however, help those who understood the same frustrations I had felt when nursing.<\/p>\n

And this, is how our nursing pads were born. Years ago, and now loved by so many.<\/p>\n

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I thank YOU<\/strong> for that!<\/p>\n

*If you’ve used our nursing pads over the years, please, share here! YOUR experience could help another shed those disposable nursing pads and realize that they can have their needs met with\u00a0reusable!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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You may not know this, but I have a soft spot for one of the products we sell. It’s nearest and dearest to my heart. Why? Because it’s exactly what I wished I had for so many many years, so many years ago. Our nursing pads. My children have all grown up well beyond the […]<\/p>\n

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