The Beautiful Letdown

A breastfeeding blog that dabbles in tandem, extended nursing, gentle parenting and much more

Having an Identity Crisis on my Blog

May11

As you might notice, I have not blogged in almost 2 months.  What?!?!?  I know.  Lame, right?  This is a breast­feed­ing blog.  I breast­feed 2 kids.  How could I not have any­thing to say about it?  I don’t know.  I just don’t.  It is such a part of our lives, it just hap­pens.  We don’t have many strug­gles.  I don’t have much to say about it.  It just is.

Then comes my iden­tity cri­sis.  I think of other things I could share.  I wanted to write about my books I am read­ing.  I wanted to share some new recipes.  I wanted to talk about run­ning and how my asthma is affect­ing it.  Then, I think “The Beau­ti­ful Let­down.”  It is a breast­feed­ing blog.  I con­sid­ered for a while start­ing a new blog with every­thing other than breast­feed­ing, but I decided against it.  I am not keep­ing up with this blog.  I don’t think that the best thing to do is add another one to my list.  I know that there are peo­ple who do this, but I don’t think I am one of those who should.

I just need to get over it and write, right?  Write for me.  Write about what I want to say.  Write about what inter­ests me right now.  Post some cute pic­tures, and viola, I am back in busi­ness.  So, that is my plan.  I am going to rein­ject a lit­tle life into my blog, but it will not be exclu­sively (or even pri­mar­ily) a breast­feed­ing blog for the time being.  I am think­ing about doing a cou­ple posts that do relate to breast­feed­ing.  Because of the name of my blog, I get a lot of searches for “should I feel my let­down” “what is a let­down” “I don’t feel my let­down” and other vari­a­tions of thsoe ques­tions.  Maybe I could save a new mom a lit­tle time if I made a post about this even if it is not some­thing I am won­der­ing about.

I hope that this isn’t a major dis­ap­point­ment to any­one, and I don’t think it will be.  I enjoy blog­ging, and I enjoy hear­ing from peo­ple who read what I write.  I miss that, and I think get­ting my thoughts out and back on this blog will be some­thing that can be inter­est­ing, thought pro­vok­ing, and enjoy­able for all of us!

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4 Comments to

“Having an Identity Crisis on my Blog”

  1. On May 11th, 2009 at 4:25 pm Katie Says:

    If breast­feed­ing comes eas­ily for you, share some of your trea­sured moments while breast­feed­ing. I think moms want to hear about the good that goes with breast­feed­ing, and not just poten­tial prob­lems or issues. Best!

  2. On May 11th, 2009 at 5:45 pm Terra Jones Says:

    I think that’s the great thing about blog­ging — it can be about what­ever you want :) I know I will not be heart bro­ken if I don’t only see breast­feed­ing infor­ma­tion from you! You’re a friend and I want to know what is going on in your life, be it breast­feed­ing, or cook­ing, or a ran­dom, funny/serious thought you had :)

    Blog away! :-D

  3. On May 11th, 2009 at 7:51 pm Hyacynth Says:

    It’s ok to go down a dif­fer­ent path than planned. You are a mother who breast­feeds — not soley a breast­feed­ing mother! :)
    Write away! I look for­ward to hear­ing what you have to say.

  4. On May 11th, 2009 at 9:52 pm Rachel Says:

    Blog for your­self and then blog for your read­ers. On your blog, it’s OK to put your­self first.

    I can’t wait to read another new post on your beau­ti­ful blog. It would be a shame to let it go to waste!

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