This is my first Sunday Surf, hosted by Authentic Parenting. Check out Baby Dust Diaries, A Domesticated Woman’s Adventures, This Adventure Life, Hobo Mama, Maman A Droit and for more great links you might have missed.
There have been posts I have wanted to discuss and link to for weeks! But it seems that I just haven’t been able to find the time to sit down and think long and hard enough to write something what with my 3 days of being single and childless quickly followed by our week long family vacation.
So I am going to do my best to link to them here. It is a bit of a cop out and I may still write my own post, referring to some of them again in the future, but for now, here are the posts, in no particular order, that have most recently rocked my socks off.
Kirsten at Food Renegade has written a couple posts that I enjoyed. The first is Female Infants Growing Breasts.
An excerpt: Female infants in China have been growing breasts. “According to the official Chinese Daily newspaper, medical tests performed on the babies found levels of estrogens circulating in their bloodstreams that are as high as those found in most adult women. These babies are between four and 15 months old. And the evidence is overwhelming that the milk formula they have been fed is responsible.”
For the homeschooling crowd Food Renegade also has compiled a number of books, activities and courses for your children (all ages) to learn about Real Food Nutrition for the School Year. Even though I am a vegetarian, I still appreciate knowing there are tools out there that will teach a child about eating healthy fruits and vegetables, healthy dairy, healthy fats, sweeteners and how and where to obtain healthy food. And yes, healthy meats for those who choose to eat it.
Chandelle at Chicken Tender wrote a post that spoke to me on a deep, deep level. Integration is a personal story of one woman’s desire for goodness and her journey with religion and vegetarianism.
Hobo Mama wrote a great post called Losing Weight and Keeping Self-Worth which was along similar lines of my post No, I’m Not Pregnant, but much better.
Another post at Hobo Mama, a guest post by Zoey who blogs at Good Goog called Work, Identity and Staying Home struck a cord with me too. While Zoey will be done working for good and home with her kids, I am returning to the work force on a part time basis. Even though our experiences are different, our feelings about it are quite similar.
Amber at Strocel.com had me laughing out loud with her post You Might Be A Hippie Mama If…. And the definite conclusion from her post is that I am.
Informed Parenting shared 161 Reasons to Birth at Home. So if you or your partner need a little more convincing look no further!
Along the same lines, iReport at CNN published an article called Home Birth… Why I Did It (& I’m Not a Hippie). As proved above, I am a hippie (minus the dread locks and other stereotypical hippie characteristics) but like the woman in the article I am also a university educated woman who made an informed choice about having my baby at home.
Katy at Smitten With Beautiful Chaos wrote a post called We Are The NORM about breastfeeding one’s child after infancy. Okay, I knew that. But what I loved was a few statistics she threw in there about the nutritional benefits of breast milk between age 1 and 2. Okay, I’m worried some of you lazier ones might not go take a look so here’s the excerpt.
In the second year (12-23 months), 448 mL of breastmilk provides:
- 29% of energy requirements
- 43% of protein requirements
- 36% of calcium requirements
- 75% of vitamin A requirements
- 76% of folate requirements
- 94% of vitamin B12 requirements
- 60% of vitamin C requirements
– Dewey 2001
Modern Alternative Mama’s Natural Health is Great But… will get you nodding your head in approval or vigorously shaking it. Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite.
I’ve noticed lately that a lot of the people who are into natural health are really…not as into it as they think they are. They talk a good talk, but when push comes to shove, they head straight back to conventional doctors. It seems to me that there are a lot of people out there who believe that natural health is great, but…only if the problem is minor. Anything serious needs a “real” doctor.
In the news, Science Daily reported that Substance in Breast Milk Kills Cancer Cells. It appears research is underway and that is nothing but good news.
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Aw, thanks so much for including me. Now I clearly have to follow your other links and do some reading!
Amber´s last [type] ..Free as a Bird Tote
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Nature is the best mother of all and you are right people like the talk but never the walk-Thank you for all the good stuff
Jane´s last [type] ..Gluten Intolerance and Celiac
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