Welcome to the October Carnival of Breastfeeding. The theme this month is “What I wish I knew then.” Make sure you check out the other carnival participant posts linked at the bottom of this one. They will be updated throughout the day.
I wish I knew that cracked and bleeding nipples weren’t something a breastfeeding mom [...]
I’ve been contemplating writing this since I started my blog back in January. It’s such a personal story, not many of our closest friends even know all the gory details, so to put it out there for the world to read is a big deal. I decided to write this story for the blog because [...]
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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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I know I said I would be posting about my fundraising efforts for La Leche League today, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I am unable to do so at this time. Instead, I hope you will find this an educational and enjoyable read.
The use of pain relieving medication during pregnancy and labor has been the [...]
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Today is my daughter’s 2nd birthday. In honour, I wanted to share her birth story, one I am still very proud of because it was a homebirth after cesarean (HBAC). Everyone thought I was crazy to do it, but with the backing of a normal pregnancy, a team of supportive midwives and husband, and armed [...]
Over at PhD in Parenting they are discussing the results of the Canadian Maternity Experiences Survey. and Ann Douglas at the Mother of All Parenting Blogs who was analyzing the data from the survey wanted to do a follow-up to the results by asking a few extra questions. So Annie at PhD in Parenting asked her readers [...]
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Newborn babies who are laid on their mother’s bare tummies and left to their own devices after a natural childbirth can innately find their mother’s breast and latch on. This process is called “self-attachment” and was researched and documented on a video called “Delivery Self Attachment,” by a team of Swedish scientists in the 1990’s.
I hadn’t [...]
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