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As Penny's first birthday approaches, I have gotten very introspective on my experience of this past year. This is a great article reprinted on the la leche league's website called "So I Nursed Him Every 45 Minutes". It is really good - and accurately sums up my experience with nursing thus far, although I never fed Penny every 45 minutes. Well, maybe the first two or three weeks. Mostly, she ate every hour. :) If anything I think I tried too hard to set up a schedule because I thought that was what I was supposed to do. I never let her go more than 10 minutes past the time she started letting me know she was hungry, but if we have another one, I will definitely not worry so much about how long it has been since the last feeding and just feed her when she gets hungry. I regret that I worried about schedules in early weeks with Penny and didn't listen to myself and do my research sooner. Funny how my introspection turns to things I feel guilty about. Perhaps later I will post about all the things that I feel good about.