Aug

4

Amy Spangler and Breastfeeding

Posted by Cindy

August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Amy Spangler is one of my favorite breastfeeding experts today. Her books Breastfeeding: Keep It Simple and Breastfeeding: A Parent’s Guide are always informative and smart yet light and fun. You don’t feel like you’re reading a dusty medical text but you’re still coming away informed. To me if you can only get one book [...]

Aug

1

Friday Round-Up

Posted by Cindy

August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

With World Breastfeeding Week starting today I wanted to do my first Friday Round-Up sharing some of the blogs that are promoting breastfeeding for moms. API Speaks has a great list up on why and how to celebrate this week, as well as a giveaway at the end. Amy at Crunchy Domestic Goddess has a [...]

Jul

30

World Breastfeeding Week August 1-7

Posted by Cindy

July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week, a whole week in which breastfeeding mothers are being encouraged and supported to “Go For The Gold”. To tie in with the Olympics this year the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action is awarding gold, silver, and bronze metals to groups and individuals who do special events during World Breastfeeding [...]

Sep

10

Do Parents Need Training In Infant Psychology?

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September 10, 2007 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

Aug

17

Cloth is Good For Mommy Too!

Posted by Cindy

August 17, 2007 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Aug

14

Diaper Rash is a Pain In the Butt

Posted by Cindy

August 14, 2007 | 4 Comments

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 [...]

Aug

1

World Breastfeeding Week – Get Your Early Nursing Relationship Going Well

Posted by Cindy

August 1, 2007 | 5 Comments

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. [...]

Jul

19

Extended Breastfeeding

Posted by Cindy

July 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Jul

5

Shopping for a new baby

Posted by Cindy

July 5, 2007 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Jul

2

Do you have a pregnancy or breastfeeding story to share?

Posted by Cindy

July 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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. [...]

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