Anyone taught sign language to your little one? Two mommybloggers weigh in on the Signing Safari DVDs: Signing Safari DVD Review by Lisa Brown Why Whine When You Can Sign? by Apraxia Mom If you live in Cincinnati, we’re lucky to have Signing Safari taught live at the Cincinnati Family Enrichment Center.
I would write more about having fibromyalgia, but it’s honestly a little scary for me…for a lot of reasons. The people who have it experience it differently and choose to treat it differently, so it is easy to offend, overgeneralize, and alienate. A remarkable number of people think it is a bogus diagnosis. I don’t [...]
I wrote the post below when I was about halfway through my pregnancy. Since then, I have become absolutely persuaded about the value of certain pregnancy, birth, feeding, and parenting choices–so much so that I almost find myself unable to understand where anyone who disagrees with me is coming from. It was helpful for me [...]
There haven’t been any breastfeeding support products that have blown me away, and, people, I’ve tried a few. That all changed this week. I have been battling mastitis and struggling to find a warm compress that didn’t double my discomfort. Then, my Booby Tubes arrived. And I heard harps and saw bright lights and knew [...]
Our third child, M, was born at ___ Hospital. All in all everything went well. We were able to go naturally, which was great! We were a little concerned about some stories we had heard about the Hospital’s policies in triage for the couples to be separated. I was separated from my husband for forty [...]
Check out this article from Best for Babes. I have to tell you, after my induced labor and a whole day of fluids, my legs look like the trunks of sequoias, and I STRUGGLED with breastfeeding. If it hadn’t been for a home visit with my doula and her fabulous explanation of reverse pressure softening, [...]
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We caught our baby at 8:05 in the morning. It was an absolutely wonderful experience. My water broke at 9:45pm Tuesday night and we calmly went to the hospital (since I tested positive for GBS, I had to be put on a penicillin IV asap) with all of our gear in toe, including two copies [...]
I rarely go looking for trouble, but one night this week I did, and I found it. I follow The Lactivista on Twitter. As the name suggests, The Lactivista tweets about breastfeeding issues, and I like her style. One night this week, I saw that she was chastising individuals who had randomly tweeted complaints about [...]
We had a great labor and delivery and had a beautiful healthy baby girl on 2/24/2010 at 4:25 a.m. She was born on her due date, if you can believe that!