So you signed up for a farm share or CSA share and now you’re wondering what to do with all those familiar and not-so-familiar greens. No worries! We’re going to figure it out together! It’s that time of the year again, once a week we get a huge assortment of seasonal vegetables. If it’s your …
Our diet has been evolving for several years, and pregnancy and parenthood only served to accelerate these changes. I thought I would share what our process has been so that hopefully it might help someone else out there. The key, I believe, has been that these changes have come slowly and gradually, making the changes …
Nursing a second baby Baby Brother was born knowing how to latch on and that is a blessing I do not take for granted. While he did not nurse immediately following the birth, within a couple of hours he sure did and by his second day of life my milk had come in and we …
Breastfeeding the Second Time Around and Tandem Nursing Read More »
At the one year mark, Baby Boy was nursing four times a day: wake-up, before or after 2 naps, and before bed. Right after his first birthday, we found out that I was pregnant again. Almost immediately nursing became a lot more painful for me and by 6 weeks I had developed severe breastfeeding agitation. …
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Baby Boy has been enthralled with us eating for a good long while now. Except a few weeks ago something changed: instead of being happy about our food, he became angry that he wasn’t getting any. Every time he was at the table with us, he would grab at our food and get mad that …
M and I eat a pretty healthy diet. I don’t follow any specific protocols, but I do have an intense aversion to food produced in a factory. Basically, if it comes from nature, or was made in the “olden-days” (i.e. can be made manually), I’ll eat it. Otherwise, I’m not a fan. This means that …
Breastfeeding problems and solutions abound for the first time mom. Make your journey breastfeeding easier and more enjoyable by knowing about common breastfeeding problems, and the solutions. Breastfeeding is not as straightforward as it may seem, and breastfeeding troubles are fairly common in our generation. We have lost some of the traditional wisdom. However, with …
