Annee Matthew is a maternity and nursing wear business that offers moms a wide range of clothing options. In their own words: We create unique clothing designs for moms and moms-to-be. We are not just creating clothes, we are creating styles: Styles that will bring out the femininity and charm of the woman in you. [...]
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I wasn’t expecting to have a cesarean and I wasn’t prepared for how it would affect my body afterwards. I didn’t even read up on cesareans when I was pregnant so when I got one I was not prepared for its effect on my body. After you have a cesarean you have a scar. For [...]
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My first birth was an unavoidable emergency cesarean section. For my second birth I was determined to do things my way. This meant a midwives assisted homebirth. This meant spending my labour baking a cake with my oldest daughter. This meant following my birth plan. My second birth went very well. I had the homebirth [...]
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This post is part of the 2010 API Principles of Parenting blog carnival, a series of monthly parenting blog carnivals, hosted by API Speaks. Learn more about attachment parenting by visiting the API website. When I first got pregnant six years ago, the first thing I wanted to buy was What To Expect When You’re [...]
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There are some findings from a new study going around that claims breast milk is not vital for an infant’s optimum health. According to Professor Sven Carlsen, the leader of the Norweigan team of scientists who conducted the study, the conditions of the mother’s womb, specifically the balance of hormones, is a more important variable [...]
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People spend New Year’s Eve reflecting on their past year. What do they remember most? How do they remember it? As an adult, most of my memories are visual and emotional, the emotions coming from sights and sounds – a flurry of colour, music, shouting, crying, laughing. But when I look back on my childhood [...]
It has been found that there are a number of benefits of eating one’s placenta, otherwise known as placentophagy. These include warding off postpartum depression (PPD), replacing lost nutrients, increasing energy, replacing hormones, aiding the onset of lactation, and reducing postpartum blood loss by stimulating the uterus to contract back to its original size. There [...]
