It has been two years since modern day wet nursing hit the media, on The Today Show (see below) and in Time Magazine. Since I was trying to recuperate from just having a baby I wasn’t spending much time on the computer back then, so when I decided to do a series of wet nursing/cross [...]
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Wet nurse – (def.) A woman who completely breastfeeds a child that is not her own, often for pay. For the sake of this post, the wet nursing history I reference is European and American. The scope of writing an article about wet nursing in other cultures was too immense for me to take on [...]
<a href =”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1518512/” >Would you nurse another woman’s baby?</a> <br/> <span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”> (<a href =”http://www.polldaddy.com”> polls</a>)</span> When my daughters were babies I made it perfectly clear to all my lactating friends, that if there were ever a natural disaster and they had my babies, and I couldn’t get to them, I would expect these [...]
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We all have our favorite banana loaf recipes and this one is mine. The extra vanilla in this loaf gives it a wonderful aroma. This is also a low-fat recipe and the chocolate chips are optional if you are being really good about watching your weight, but I always throw them in, because sometimes you [...]
I have been using twitter for a little over a month and as of today I am excited to report that I have 906 followers. Now if only they would all subscribe to my blog I’d be rocking! For those of you who don’t know much about twitter, it is a social networking site that [...]
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