I attended the Annual Clients of out local Midwifery Group Family Picnic this weekend. It was held at the same farm I pick up my CSA share of organic veggies at each week, a gorgeous old farmstead, complete with an ancient weather-worn barn and the smell of sweet yellow, summer’s end grass. We sat in [...]
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B..B..b..b.. What begins with B? Barber, baby, bubbles and a bumblebee! ~ Dr. Suess B..B..b..b.. What begins with B? Beth breastfeeds baby Bob in bed B..b..B! ~ Melodie The following post was inspired by Adventures in [Crunchy] Parenthood’s ABC’s of the blogosphere. Only I realized most of the breastfeeding words out there start with “B” so [...]
It’s an evolutionary trait that moms are wired to be responsive to their baby’s cries. Babies wake up at night because it is what nature intends them to do. Nature also intends that babies drink breast milk. Contrary to what you might hear, it is not normal for a baby to sleep through the night. And breastfed [...]
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I transitioned my bed-sharing toddler to her own bed when she turned two. I had willingly suffered through two years of very poor sleep, because the crying-it-out alternative was not an option for me. My first daughter litterally woke up an average of 10 times a night. Every time she woke up I nursed her. [...]
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