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 Children, Family, General Musings, Ireland, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged educate-together, moving, moving-house, school on 15 June, 2008 | 8 Comments »
We’re moving house. hopefully very soon!
Mr. HPP’s job moved to a village just outside the city, resulting in a very long bike commute for him. It’s not too bad now with all the general pleasantness of cycling in summer, but in the winter, brrrr… He cycles along the coast road which even now has a [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Breastfeeding, Children, Co-Sleeping, Family, General Musings, Green Living, Ireland, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, Vegan, tagged blogstuff, housekeeping on 5 June, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Today I’ve been inspired by Danielle at New Mommy Rant to continue my virtual housekeeping. I checked for and repaired deadlinks 2 weeks ago so they should be grand, I still have to divide my blogroll into easier-to-manage sections, I have a few new blogs to add to it. I had a look at other [...]
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We visited Brigit’s Garden today courtesy of Littlepixie’s grandparents and their car. LP enjoyed her first trip in her new carseat. It’s a shame the gardens are so far out of Galway and not served by public transport as they are beautiful and we’d love to go there every weekend.
There are four gardens there, one [...]
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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 Children, Family, General Musings, Ireland, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged bealtaine, beltane, may-day, summer on 1 May, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It’s the first of summer, the sky is blue and littlepixie’s pink parasol has returned! She has a teeny sprinkling of freckles on her nose already, oops!
I must research sun creams, I don’t like them much but with littlepixie’s pale skin, reddish hair and (newly aquired) freckles sun cream will be a part of her [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Family, Ireland, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, tagged birth, birth-choices, birthing, childbirth, Dublin, homebirth, midwives on 4 April, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Homebirth Association of Ireland’s 25th Annual Conference is on in Dublin tomorrow. Here are the details from their website www.homebirth.ie
Saturday 5th April 2008 - 9:30am to 5:15pm
Taney Parish Church of Ireland Hall,
Taney Road, Dundrum, Dublin 14
Keynote Speaker: Mary Cronk
Renowned Midwife of vast experience and active promoter of Woman-centred care
ALSO Two Home Birth Couples [...]
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Three weeks ago I found what I thought was a plugged milk duct, it felt like a little pea but it wasn’t sore like they (plugged ducts, not peas) usually are.
So I set about a routine of massage, massage and more massage. It didn’t go away, nor did it get worse, so I decided to [...]
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Posted in Food & Drink, Ireland, Vegan, Vegan Cooking, Vegetarian, tagged baking, cooking, crepes, pancake tuesday, pancakes, recipes on 1 February, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It’s my birthday on Tuesday so I have to choose a cake for Mr. Halfpintpixie to bake for me. Such hardship
Last year we scoffed Ginger Macadamia Coconut Carrot Cake from VWAV. It was, needless to say, delish! Here’s a pic… now you all know how old I am! We seem to use coconut [...]
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Posted in Ireland, Mothering, tagged health, women, breasts, activism, women-health, healthcare, two-tits-and-a-vote, mary harney on 1 February, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s a new(ish) website, the aptly named Two Tits & a Vote which aims to highlight the increasing ineptitude of the Irish Health Services when it comes to basic women’s healthcare.
Two Tits and a Vote is intended to make it easy for women to take action and instigate change using the power we do have: [...]
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