Posted in Breastfeeding, Family, General Musings, Ireland, Mothering, health, tagged bras, breast-cancer, breastcheck, breasts, cancer, health, healthcare, women, women-health on 16 June, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Cancer Care West & the Mayo Cancer Support Association are asking us all to send a bra and a donation to them to help in their November attempt to break the Guinness record for the longest unbroken chain of bras, they need 120,000 bras and the chain they form will be in excess of 70 [...]
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Posted in Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, General Musings, Ireland, Lactivism, Milk Bank, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, SAHM, Toddler, health, tagged breast feeding, human-milk-bank, human-milk-donation, lactation, Necrotizing-Enterocolitis, preemies, premature-babies on 24 May, 2008 | No Comments »
The human milk bank in Fermanagh urgently needs more donors, especially from the Republic of Ireland. You may recall that my first post was about our milk bank.
Well, yesterday Tanya Cassidy left a comment on that post sharing her experience of receiving donor milk for her second premature son after sadly losing her first son [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, Vegan, health, tagged complain, extended-breastfeeding on 20 May, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Allow me to indulge myself, if only for a moment, and moan a bit. I’m doing it here because there are two responses everyone else gives me and I’m not in the mood for them, you can probably guess the responses before I share the problems, the responses are… drumroll please….
1. Give up the whole [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, Toddler, Vegan, Vegetarian, health, tagged breast feeding on 17 May, 2008 | 7 Comments »
My latest post on The Veggie Blog, reposted here for your enjoyment!
Me again, I’ll be posting here every so often with some random thoughts vaguely connected to being a vegan parent and raising vegan children. My daughter is 18 months old, so I don’t have huge swathes of experience yet, but I will offer up [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, health, tagged api-speaks, learning, play, school on 8 May, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My 18 month old daughter loves to dance. At mother and toddler group every week she watches and tries to mimic the hand movements that the older children & mums do as they sing all of the nursery rhymes. She claps loudly at the end of each song and jumps up and down excitedly waiting [...]
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I’m very chuffed, I was invited to do a guest blog post at Veggie Blog so if you have a few minutes please pop over and read my latest post “Your Healthy Vegan Pregnancy” at Veggie Blog, the blog of Happycow.net
Edited to add the post in case any of you missed it over there…. enjoy!
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Food & Drink, General Musings, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, SAHM, Toddler, health, tagged book, book-review, la leche league on 23 April, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Littlepixie took an unexpected 2 hour nap on my lap this morning, which meant us missing her playgroup but which gave me an excellent opportunity to read a book from my ever-growing book-queue.
I decided to read “My child won’t eat” by Dr. Carlos Gonzalez, published by La Leche League International.
My local LLL leader had [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, Toddler, health, tagged breastfeeding-carnival on 21 April, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Welcome to April’s Carnival of Breastfeeding where this month’s topic is “Thrush and mastitis and blebs, oh my!“. Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoy your visit!
In my 17+ months of breastfeeding I have encountered a few issues, some I’ve shared on this blog, some were in the misty hazy pre-blog days. I’ve dealt [...]
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Just a quickie to draw your attention to a handy UK site called Action on Additives. You may remember last September there was a lot of publicity surrounding additives in children’s food in the UK, and I went sleuthing around reading medicine bottles and learning lots about additives.
Action on Additives has been set up by [...]
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