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I love flat diapers. Don’t get me wrong. I also love the modern cloth diapers we have today, but there is a special place in my heart for flat cloth diapers. Flats were the only diapers I was wrapped in as a baby. Beyond that flats, as it turns out, have their place in modern [...]
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Editor’s Note: This post is not meant to be a discussion about vaccinations. The focus of this post is about educating our health care professionals about nursing during painful procedures. My oldest son has nursed during vaccinations. Our first two pediatricians were perfectly fine with it. In fact they were encouraging of it. Several research [...]
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A monumental event happened in our home last night: My almost six-year-old daughter, my oldest, came to me sometime in the middle of the night after a scary dream to ask if she could sleep in my bed for the night. Half asleep, I pulled a pillow next to me and spread my blanket over [...]
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I’m a stay-at-home mom, but I’ve always been curious as to what happens with my work-away-from-home mom counterparts. I asked a friend of mine, Tiffany, if she would be willing to grant me an interview. Tiffany is a librarian in western New York. She has two children ages 6 years and 10 months. The interview [...]
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With my older children, who are now four and five years old, I wore them in a carrier for a time, but they never really took to it like my son. In the house, I don’t usually babywear. I’m satisfied with him being in arms as much as he likes, but as he’s becoming more [...]
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My family and I live in an apartment, and we cloth diaper. Yes, you can do both. So here are some of my tips about it. 1) Ask- If your unlucky enough not to have wash/dryer hook-ups in your snazzy apartment, then it’s common courtesy to ask if washing cloth diapers is okay. Some laundry [...]
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I have a lot of friends, but I don’t have a lot of friends who I agree with in parenting approach. It makes me feel very alone sometimes. A couple weeks ago, I attended a mothers group at the local church where many of my nearby friends attend. I didn’t know all of the women [...]
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I believe that children need discipline. They need to know where the limits are; they need to know boundaries. Some parents prefer forms of punishment; those who raise their children in an attachment-minded way tend toward teaching and guidance. I wonder, though, if we truly ever get away from punishing – perhaps we don’t spank [...]
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Women like to judge one another. Apparently, it’s how we’re wired because it takes a great deal of conscious effort to learn to suppress this desire. It’s really too bad, because we could offer a lot to one another if we weren’t so busy pushing our agendas at each other and defending our decisions. Women [...]
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The Marmet Technique is the most widely used form of hand expression. Developed by Chele Marmet of the Lactation Institute, the technique was designed for long term expressing. This is the most cost effective way to express milk. You only need your hands and a clean container. It’s also just as effective as a breast [...]
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