Tag Archives: breastfeeding
World Breastfeeding Week
It’s World Breastfeeding Week! When a friend asked me if I was going to be blogging about it, I said probably not. I’m kind of all blogged out when it comes to breastfeeding, having written for a year now at … Continue reading
Filed under Food, Living from Scratch, parenting
Mercury Pollution: What Parents Need to Know
My dad tells a story of his science teacher handing out vials of mercury and allowing students to play with it and watch how it pools. Those days are gone! (I should know, I’m a science teacher.) Today, we aren’t … Continue reading
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Learning to be a Mother
Welcome to the January Carnival of Natural Parenting: Learning from children This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared the many … Continue reading
Filed under Home, parenting, Sustainable Living
A Day in the Life of a Working Mom
2:00 am- Joshua nuzzles me, looking to nurse. I nurse him and he goes back to sleep. He wakes and nurses about every 15 minutes for the next two hours. I’m awake the whole time. Continue reading at the Breastfeeding … Continue reading
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Baby-Led Weaning with Real Food
As an advocate for real, healthy, local foods, I was dreading introducing solids to my son. I just couldn’t imagine having his first food be processed cereal. I’d also seen jarred baby food and was completely grossed out by it. Nobody … Continue reading
Filed under Food, Living from Scratch, Local Agriculture, parenting
Baby Weight
When I see this picture of me at age 20, I can’t help but wonder: Will my tummy ever be that flat again? I didn’t gain an inordinate amount of weight with my pregnancy: the 40 pounds that I put … Continue reading
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