When these Breastfeeding Weeks come along, as they tend to do a few times a year depending on the country you’re living in, and the planet you are living on (Martians please note that planet Earth is having World Breastfeeding Week August 1-7), I feel huge pressure to contribute something super intelligent or meaningful. The [...]
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I was originally going to call this post “The One Where I Combine Two Awards and A Cute Meme That’s All About Me.” But I thought it was too long and that this other title would be more eye catching. And while it sounds self-centered and assy-like, it really isn’t. See, I was recently bestowed the [...]
I really wish I was going to Blog Her’ 10. But last year when the tickets went on sale we knew our life would be in limbo this summer so I purposely didn’t buy one. Of course I’ve been dreaming about it anyway. Except every time I dream about it, I find myself back at [...]
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Welcome to the May Carnival of Natural Parenting: Role model This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have waxed poetic about how their parenting has inspired others, or how others have inspired them. Please read to the [...]
I’ve enjoyed a real mixed bag of posts this month as I think you will agree. Along the same lines as the posts on the terms extended breastfeeding vs. full term breastfeeding by myself and Hobo Mama, Maman A Droit wrote a piece called Do we need a new word for co-sleeping? In it she [...]
Today I was going to write about bad days. But because I’ve just had a string of good days I thought I’d save that post for another time. Instead, I’m going to do some horn tooting. (Toot toot!) On Thursday Annie from PhD in Parenting alerted me to the fact that I was in the [...]
I’ve been inspired. Dionna at Code Name Mama does a monthly love links post and this month she linked to one of my articles that discussed the semantics of the terms “full term” versus “extended” breastfeeding. Thanks Dionna! Months ago I did a post on links to some great breastfeeding posts, but nothing since. So I thought [...]
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