January 2009

The Tortoise and the Hare

January 31, 2009




Anyone with more than one child knows what it feels like to be pulled in two directions. The baby needs a diaper change and the older child wants a drink. The baby needs to nurse and the older child wants to play a game. The older child needs his bum wiped and the baby wants [...]

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Feeding with love and respect

January 28, 2009




Have you ever wondered what the connection is between attachment parenting and toddler nutrition? Do you worry that your nursing toddler isn’t eating enough? Looking for some great books related to attachment parenting and nutrition? Then wander over to Little Stomaks and read my guest post: Attachment Parenting and Toddler Nutrition Be sure to leave [...]

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Breastfeeding is not lewd, it’s food

January 28, 2009




Check out BabyREADY‘s great response to the CNN’s question “Is public breastfeeding okay?”

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Squeezed at both ends?

January 27, 2009




To read more about how public health authorities are trying to make motherhood impossible, check out my guest post on breastfeeding and co-sleeping at a Mother’s Boutique’s Mommy News & Views Blog. Don’t forget to leave a comment while you’re there!

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When a mother breastfeeds she is protecting her child from herself

January 26, 2009




The title of this post is the finding of a new study by Australian researchers. They found that women that didn’t breastfeed were more than 4 times as likely to be reported for maternal neglect than those that breastfed for 4 months or longer. The Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy is Australia’s largest longitudinal [...]

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No need to hide

January 23, 2009




My friend over at Noble Savage posted this fabulous public service announcement on breastfeeding in public. Watch it! Share it! Convince your local public health agency to put one like it on the air! Updated to say check out this great Australian one too (thanks to Rob A for point it out in the comments): [...]

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Horsing Around

January 22, 2009




I’ve shared this picture before as part of my post on Siblings, but wanted to share it again as part of 5 Minutes for Mom’s photo contest. Since the contest is only open to US shipping addresses, I plan to donate the prize to a friend in the United States if I win.

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Inspiring Change

January 21, 2009




I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what my goal is with this blog. When I started the blog back in May and wrote my About This Blog page this is what I said: I’m working on my proverbial PhD in Parenting. As someone that has spent a lot of years in a classroom, I [...]

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Please bear with me

January 17, 2009




This weekend I’m undertaking the overwhelming task of moving my blog from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. Unfortunately, I haven’t found a way to keep this blog up and running at this URL while I tinker in a development environment to perfect the new self-hosted blog. So, there may end up being a few hours (optimistically!) or [...]

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Another academic weighs in on CIO

January 15, 2009




A few weeks ago Macall Gordon dropped by my blog and left a comment on my post about why we don’t use the cry it out method to get our children to go to sleep. Since then, I’ve been reading a lot of her work and found that it supports my assertion that there is [...]

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