Update: This essay is one of the winners of the co-sleeping essay contest. It won in its category “How I intended to use a crib and chose not to.” It will be published in the upcoming book Are You Co-Sleeping? Me Too! This will be my first publication in a book! *************** Before my first [...]
Welcome to the February Carnival of Natural Parenting: Love and partners! This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing about how a co-parent has or has not supported us in our dedication to natural parenting. Please read to [...]
I’ve recently started working towards not nursing my youngest daughter to sleep. She’s two and a half and I’m at the point where I’d like to be able to go out of the house once in awhile past 8:00 without worrying about how my daughter is going to fall asleep without me. Because she never [...]
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My toddler likes to pull on and look down my shirt from time to time. She likes to make sure her milkies are still there, I guess. This weekend, during a rare cuddle with the whole family in bed, was no exception. She took the blankets and pulled them back and pulled on my pajama [...]
Thanks to the press for yet another reason to jump to the defense of parents who sleep with their infants. Recently, the news reported that a mother, who was flying from Washington D.C. to Kuwait, fell asleep nursing her four week old infant and accidentally suffocated her. Of course the words “breastfeeding” and “suffocates infant” [...]
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I’ve had such a bad day today. Not only was the work day bad but the fact that I can’t go out tonight to release the pressure that builds inside you when you have a bad day is, well, very bad. So I’m blogging about it. Without a picture. Just so you get how bad [...]
As a child, I loved my stuffed animals and dolls. I mean I *loved* them! My brother too. We treated them as though they were real. I never threw them on the floor (because they might get hurt) and I never put them on my bed face down (because they might suffocate). I tried to [...]
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