Natural Parenting Posts My favorite post this week: Code Name: Mama asks us to look at things from a child’s point of view in Gossiping About Our Children. Hobo Mama tells us Why “good kid” bothers me. Annie at PhD in Parenting gives us a picture of what it looks like when she is Ready [...]
After a long day away from home and 57 comments on yesterday’s post Has Breastfeeding Hurt Your Marriage? I arrived to find a letter in my inbox from a representative of Rabbi Shmuley’s website. It turns out they’ve been receiving a number of comments (oh, really?!) and I appear to be the source of these [...]
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Today Twitter alerted me to a recently published article called Moms, Don’t Forget to Feed Your Marriages by Rabbi Shmuley. Essentially, the Rabbi says that women who are devoted to breastfeeding are committing a “cardinal sin” by not putting their husbands and thus their marriages before the needs of their children. He goes on to say [...]
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I was surprised when I heard Glenda’s story of not being supported by her Church family around her breastfeeding her infant daughter (with a nursing cover no less!), but I am usually never surprised when I hear about Facebook removing yet another breastfeeding photo or art piece. But I did come close when Kate Hansen sent [...]
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Check out this excellent 20/20 New Zealand video: Milking It, where two mothers talk about breastfeeding their three and five year olds, and two young women talk about remembering being breastfed until the age of five and seven. Watch and listen to their experiences and see for yourself if these kids are damaged or if these [...]
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This is a special post to celebrate a special person and her very special project. Monica Cravotta who writes at Attachment Mama is making her dream come true. Three and a half years ago Monica was pregnant with her first child and came up with an idea to create a CD of children’s music with [...]
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Last night CBC and The Discovery Health Channel aired a couple shows where moms who breastfeed were in the spotlight. For those of you who missed one or both of the shows I thought I would recap them for you. If you taped it to watch later and don’t want any spoilers then stop reading [...]
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