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 Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Co-Sleeping, Family, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, Toddler, tagged api-speaks, breast feeding, cosleeping on 3 June, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My latest post for API Speaks, this one’s for all the wonderful dads!
I’ve been thinking recently about how important Attachment Parenting is to fathers.
Many men seem to feel helpless and left out when it comes to the whole process of pregnancy, birth and those early weeks with a new baby. Mother and baby are like [...]
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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, 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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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 Babies, Children, Cloth-Nappies, Environment, Family, Food & Drink, Giveaway, Green Living, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, Vegan, Vegetarian, tagged dairy-free, vegan-pregnancy on 27 April, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Mittelschmerz is a new(ish) zine written by veganmegan who can often be seen floating around the Post Punk Kitchen forums. The zine focuses on vegan pregnancy, childbirth & child-raising. Issue One has been available on etsy for a few weeks and hopefully Issue Two will appear very, very soon!
Mittelschmerz Issue One deals with pregnancy, including [...]
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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, 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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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, SAHM, Toddler, tagged magazines, pay-it-forward on 11 March, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I received an exciting package in the mail yesterday from the lovely Isil at Veggieway. It contained my PIF gift which was a beautiful hand cranked music box which plays “Imagine”. Littlepixie adores it, I spent ages yesterday winding it around so she could listen to it and hum along ever so melodiously!
The package also [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, SAHM, Toddler, tagged bras, nursing, nursing-bra on 5 March, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I just just received the most beautiful bra in the post today. It’s black lace, lined with teal cotton, it’s soft, it’s gorgeous and it’s a nursing bra! Nice nursing bras do exist and I will tell you where to find them!
But first, let’s begin at the beginning….
When you’re pregnant, around 38 weeks, you should [...]
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