Today seriously got off to a bad start. I didn’t sleep well. Not feeling well. My patience is thin. PMS is looming…or raging in like bull. I didn’t speak kindly to my husband. I didn’t speak kindly to my children. I got irritated about whether the kids took plastic or metal forks to school in […]
Bath Robe
I managed to attend my first La Leche League meeting about 10 minutes after I found out I was pregnant. OK, that’s a bit of an exaggeration but it certainly didn’t take me long to find out where my next local meeting was. I walked in, with barely a bump showing, feeling a little bit […]
Bye Bye and Thank You
When my now 6 year old was 20 months old, I was feeling really touched out. I had struggled through serious post-partum depression and just felt in my heart that it was time for us to wean. We talked about it and decided when we would be through. We climbed into my bed on a […]
Day in the Life
Three years ago, at the challenge of a fellow mom on a natural parenting message board I frequented, I did my first “Day in the Life” photo project. For one day, I took pictures consistently throughout the day to capture a glimpse of what our life was like. The whole family enjoyed the project and […]
Communication
Elita, at Blacktating (a fantastic and honest take on breastfeeding, especially in the African American community) shared that the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) has released the theme for this year’s World Breastfeeding Week. World Breastfeeding Week (usually the first week in August) is a time for celebrating all that breastfeeding has done to […]
Biology
The lovely women at Every Mother, Inc. shared the following on Twitter (@everymotherinc). Just the kind of geeky love and affection that we need on a Friday night…
Celebrity
(photo credit: www.koraorganics.com) I really believe that when a celebrity (Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr) releases this as their introduction of their brand new child to the world, it does something amazing. My hope is that a million young women see this, see the calm, serene look on her face, see sweet little Flynn nursing […]
Rose Colored Glasses
I’ve been accused of being all “rose colored glasses” about breastfeeding. That couldn’t be further from the truth. While I hold very tightly to my belief that “we were create for this”, I know (both firsthand and from so many encounters with other moms) that it isn’t as easy as simply putting baby to breast. […]
Rockin’ Robin!
(photo credit: www.kpoplive.com) OK, so maybe the Twitter bird isn’t a robin…but I just can’t get the “tweet, tweet, tweetly-tweet” out of my head. I consider myself pretty well-connected. My mom used to tell a joke that went on and on about how I knew the pastor, the mayor, the governor, the president and took […]
Hop! Hop! Hop!
In an attempt to get connected to more breastfeeding blogs, I’m participating in the Breastfeeding Blog Hop! The more research (both formal and informal…meaning the kind that involves trolling the internet for Pajama Jeans!) I do, the more I realize from where moms today are gaining their breastfeeding education and understanding. I’ll have another blog […]