Today I am honoured to have a guest post from Jennifer at Barely Knit Together. As some of you know I am in the process of applying for my Masters in Social Work. My goal is to work with in psychiatry (my career background before I became a mom) specifically with women and families. I’d [...]
Continue reading about I Lied to My Shrink, and Other Hazards of Breastfeeding
This post is a part of The Carnival of Maternity Leave being hosted by the one and only Amber at Strocel.com. Go on over and check out her blog for some other great maternity leave stories. I am one of those lucky Canadians who recieved a year long maternity leave. In addition I got top up from [...]
If I knew what I know now and was pregnant for the first time, I would do things a little differently. I would wear a couple of new products, I would read a couple of new books and I would inform myself in other ways, like attending a La Leche League meeting. Last week I [...]
I didn’t think about breastfeeding very much at all when I was pregnant. I knew my extended family wouldn’t jump for joy that I planned to breastfeed for at least a year, but I knew I would do it anyway and I assumed it was easy. That was it. Nearer to my due date my [...]
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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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