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Sep
10
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Posted by admin
September 10, 2007 | 2 Comments
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I read an interesting article over the weekend. The basic premise was on parents receiving training in infant mental health. Do parents really need to be trained in their infants mental health? Do infants have mental health issues that need special training? Is it really nessisary for parents to pay someone to come wathc them […]
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Aug
17
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Posted by Commander Mommy
August 17, 2007 | 1 Comment
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Most people know that I use cloth diapers. I love, love, love them for a majority of reasons. Style, ease of use, evironmentally friendly, safer on their skin, the lsit goes on. You could say that natural cloth is my absolute favorite products for babies. But it’s also my favorite for mommy too.
When I was […]
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Aug
14
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Posted by Commander Mommy
August 14, 2007 | 3 Comments
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My oldest son used to get horrible diaper rashes. I mean aweful. That is the main reason we switched to cloth diapers. Though he’s still got sensitive skin, there were no more huge raw spots that he would get after just a few minutes. And trust me, that used to happen far too often.
My […]
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Aug
1
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Posted by Commander Mommy
August 1, 2007 | 5 Comments
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August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week. Breastfeeding ym sons has been one of the best experiences in my life, and one of the things I am the proudest of. There were difficulties, pain, clogged ducts, thrush, bites, day long nursing marathons, and a few comments from others who seemed to want breastfeeding mothers to fail. […]
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Jul
19
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Posted by Commander Mommy
July 19, 2007 | 1 Comment
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Ann Sinnott, whose 15 year old daughter self-weaned at the age of six and a half, is writing a book about sustained breastfeeding, (breastfeeding children three years and older). She would like long-term breastfeeding mothers, past and present, to complete a questionnaire at the link below. She would also like completed questionnaires from mothers who […]
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Jul
5
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Posted by Commander Mommy
July 5, 2007 | 1 Comment
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New parents are never really certain about what they will need. If you go by the glossy magazine layouts and the celebrity spreads you would think you need a few billion things for your new bundle of joy. The stores all have 101 trickets and bobbles to sell expecting parents for their coming babes. With […]
Admit it, we mothers love to talk about our kids. We will share the weird cravings we had during the pregnancy, how we almost broke the nurse’s nose during labor when she amde a rude comment, and about all the late nights in the early weeks that left us wanting to run away from home. […]
I’m a huge fan of breastfeeding. I nursed my first son for close to a year and a half, and now I’m nursing my second son at a year and still going strong. There are so many myths and so much misinformation out there about breastfeeding that its a wonder any mother can weed through […]