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Home Births Rise, Mostly By Choice – Shots – Health News Blog : NPR. Children were born at home for thousands of years before modern obstetrics so a return to this makes sense to me. While I personally would not consider homebirth for myself — I labored for 24+ hours at home, without pain relief and [...] I just got this in my email and went to the California Poison Control Center website to verify for myself. Hi everyone, I wanted to pass this along. I worked at the poison center and still have friends there. They are very concerned that the Governer has not included any funding for the poison center in [...] Yes, yes, another Jon & Kate Plus 8 post. Sue me, I got sucked in to TLC’s weekend marathon and ended up watching way more of them than I ever planned to. Since TLC marathoned the episodes from beginning to the present, you could see the evolution of the Gosselins from a young family, struggling to [...] I have a confession to make: I’ve been following the Gosselin family, ie. Jon & Kate Plus 8. I remember hearing about them awhile back from their first TLC special, about how they were a family with twins and sextuplets. I didn’t take too much notice when Jon & Kate Plus 8 was made into [...] While reading a friend’s blog entry about Mommy blogs, I followed a link to Ayelet Waldman’s 2005 article for the New York times called Truly, Madly, Guiltily where she talks about her relationship with her children and her husband. As she puts it, she loves her children but is in love with her husband, a [...] The past few days haven’t been easy since The Little Empress was a bit discombobulated from her birthday party on Saturday. Poor little thing is still so very easily overstimulated and it has made her clingier and needier than usual. For us, this means she’s been nursing around the clock again and it has been [...] The Hubster, my sister and I went to San Francisco Japantowne today with The Little Empress in tow. (We went last weekend as well but without my sister as she was working.) We did the usual — got lunch at one of our favorite restaurants before walking around to check out the Miyako mall. We [...] If you have a curious little one, download BabySmash for your PC. It is free, open source and a great way to keep a smashy-smashy baby entertained for awhile, providing that your keyboard can take the abuse Thanks to JuriJuri for the heads up Here’s a great video featuring breastfeeding mothers and their children. I love seeing videos that feature breastfeeding in such a positive, natural light. I’m not a lactivist but I do very strongly feel that mothers should feel free to nurse their children wherever, whenever they want to. Breastfeeding is such a beautiful part of my [...]  |
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The R Word
As I’ve blogged before, I get nervous when thinking about the economic dow– oh, for f*ck’s sake, people just call it what it is — A RECESSION. Capital R – E – C -E – S – S – I – O – N. RECESSION. That ugly time in the economic cycle when everyone has [...]