Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Lactivism, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, Toddler, tagged breast feeding, nursing on 4 June, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been following a thread on MDC where people have been adding links to their favourite breastfeeding images, be they photos, paintings, sketches, statues, advertisements, public awareness campaigns or jewellery.
But as with all threads on such busy forums, this one will eventually start to slip into the archives, so I thought I would take [...]
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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, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Environment, Green Living, Lactivism, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, Toddler on 28 February, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Isn’t this poster gorgeous? Adorable chubby toddler ankles!
It’s one of a series of posters that the Australian Breastfeeding Association have recently unveiled. The series aims to highlight the environmental benefits of breastfeeding. Wouldn’t they be beautiful to see in the doctor’s office rather than the usual medical posters!
Tanya wrote a wonderful post last year about [...]
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For all us toddler nursing mums… this is beautiful!
dar la TeTA es dar ViDA
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Lactivism, Mothering, Parenting, Toddler, tagged fable, humour, stone-soup, storytelling on 14 February, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Stone Soup is tackling the subject always dear to our hearts… Nursing in Public. This one is so funny, it’s exactly what you’d love to do if anyone complained to you!
You can see all the installments of the comic here.
Speaking of “Stone Soup”, do you remember the original story, it’s a great little tale. Here’s [...]
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Using the magical powers of random.org, I have selected a winner of the mini-lactivist pack.
Drumroll please….. and the winner is…. no.3 Kelsey (no blog listed)
Congratulations Kelsey, I hope you enjoy it!
Don’t forget to check out all the winners of the Bloggy Giveaways.
If you’re interested in any of the bits & bobs that were in the [...]
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Posted in Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Contest, Giveaway, Lactivism, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, tagged bloggy-giveaways on 28 January, 2008 | 91 Comments »
It’s my first time joining in the massive Bloggy Giveaway!
In the spirit of my new decluttering self, I have rounded up some bits & bobs from around the house to make up a delightful lactivist mini-pack comprising:
* A beautiful breastfeeding mum & baby fridge magnet (handmade in Brazil for Baby Milk Action)
* A “Mummy milk [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, General Musings, Lactivism, Milk Bank, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, Toddler, tagged ideablob on 23 January, 2008 | 1 Comment »
All you US & Canadian readers, take a couple of minutes to pop on over to Ideablob, register & vote for a proposal from the Mother’s Milk Bank of New England. This is the final round of voting, if they win they will receive $10,000. Imagine how much use they could put that to!
Tanya at [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Ireland, Lactivism, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, tagged baby, Family, ibfan, pregnant on 16 January, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Just before Christmas, while visiting a popular Irish parenting site, I noticed that there were SMA ads scattered prolifically around it. I had posted about one page in particular, the Mums2Be section which looked like this…
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Co-Sleeping, General Musings, Lactivism, Mothering, Parenting, Toddler, Vegan on 2 January, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Every day I get a little email from an attachment parenting mailing list with a nice affirming message. Today’s really struck a chord, it’s called “Don’t Explain” and can be found in full at The Daily Groove.
I spend a lot of time researching & educating myself about my choices in life.
Some things I knew I [...]
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