I’ve been thinking about starting a breastfeeding blog for some time now…and amazingly, have even been encouraged to do so (people actually want to read what I have to say??)  The only thing that was stopping me was a name.  I thought and thought and thought some more.  And as original as some of my ideas seemed, when I Googled them they were already taken or there was a site too similar.

Breastfeeding is a part of our life.  Especially when we are home, snuggled up with our two boys; there is a pretty good chance that they are nursing.  We are a family of lactivists.  And so, one evening, as I spouted off a story about galactagogues (substances that promotes lactation), my ever so witty husband called me a Galactagoddess.  Immediately, I thought “That’s it!  That’s the name of my blog!” but then I thought some more.  I’m a pretty humble gal, did I really want to compare myself to a deity??

Well, you know the answer, because otherwise I wouldn’t be writing about it!  I’m not asking anyone to put me on a pedestal.  I’m putting myself on a pedestal.  I’m owning up to my ability to do something pretty amazing…the ability to sustain another human being.  And I’m inviting you to do the same.  Whether you breastfed for a day, a few weeks, six months, one year, four years…you are a goddess in my book.

galacto- or galacta-

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god·dess  (gds)

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