The following post was written by Virginia who blogs at Rotormommy. If you don’t yet know her, go check her out. She blogs about attempting to balance being pregnant with her second baby, working full time, graduate school and family, while still staying somewhat sane. Since I am not a pumping mom but wanted to be [...]
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Is it always bad to advertise for baby bottles? Does it always break the WHO International Code of Marketing Breast milk Substitutes? Would it be unethical of a blog to advertise for baby bottles if no imagery was used? What about if that site was a beastfeeding site and the ad was meant solely for [...]
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This morning I was lying in bed, somewhere between half asleep and half awake after a long night of my two and a half year old waking up every 45 minutes to nurse. It was 8:00 and she wanted to nurse again.
I was done. Finished. Exhausted. There would be no nursing.
“Honey, you’ve been nursing all [...]
I love hearing all the names kids use for breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is such a special phase of a young child’s life that I think it only appropriate for them to name this important and intimate time.
My own daughter’s name for breastfeeding evolved over the couple months it took for her to create discernible letter sounds [...]
I parent by nature because nature is the God in my bones. I cherish an ideal of parenting that keeps me close to the Earth and is as instinctive as the rooting mouth of an infant. While it is easy to find a community of mothers who also subscribe to natural parenting values — “crunchy” moms if [...]
We had my daughter’s birthday party a couple weekends ago. We were going for “green” but traditional, definitely not “commercial,” and of course, lots of fun. This is how it went as far as meeting some green and ethical standards.
Where we succeeded:
1. Evite invitations. Some people like to make their own invitations, which are very special, [...]
I was contacted by a Lansinoh representative about doing a review of a few of their products for my blog. I was interested, but upon reviewing their products felt that I could not do the review justice without some assistance from a mom with a new baby, as many of Lansinoh’s products are geared towards [...]
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