Your friend just had a new baby and you are wondering what you should get her. Those sweet little booties? (Look how tiny and cute!) Some cozy pajamas? (Look at the cute trucks! See those sweet ladybugs?) What about some diaper cream and baby shampoo? (Always practical!) Oh I know! What about a special baby [...]
Cyclone Dairy: Perfect Cows. Perfect Milk. Milk from cloned cows. When I first stumbled upon an ad for the company called Cyclone Dairy I seriously thought it was a joke. Sorry dairy folk, but I did. When I started looking over their website I realized that the punch line that I was looking for was [...]
Over at PhD in Parenting they are discussing the results of the Canadian Maternity Experiences Survey. and Ann Douglas at the Mother of All Parenting Blogs who was analyzing the data from the survey wanted to do a follow-up to the results by asking a few extra questions. So Annie at PhD in Parenting asked her readers [...]
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The following recipe is from one of my favorite cookbooks, Rebar Modern Food Cookbook by Audrey Alsterberg and Wanda Urbanowicz. Rebar also happens to be a fabulous vegetarian restaurant in Victoria, B.C. for anyone who might be visiting. This soup is chock-full of red lentils which cook super fast and are an excellent source of protein [...]
I am pleased to share a guest post with my readers today that was written by a reader and friend, Melissa. The following is her story of her extended breastfeeding relationship with her son, Cole. When I was pregnant with my son, I imagined myself having a wonderful breastfeeding experience, nourishing and nurturing my baby [...]
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I decided to take the poll down one week early since as more posts go up and the poll gets older it gets less votes. But it was a good turn out for this exercise in my curiosity. I had a hypothesis that breastfeeding moms who don’t cover up when breastfeeding in public will nurse their children [...]
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A new study by the Boston University School of Public Health shows that even when hospitals encorage new mothers to breastfeed, those same hospitals sometimes do things that increase the chance the babies will end up drinking formula instead. See entire article here. Basically, trained maternity nurses who should have been taught “Breastfeeding 101″ at school [...]
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