Babylune’s Mothering Sunday to Mothers’ Day Charity Campaign started on March 18th and runs until May 13. This is the first of a three-part series of posts highlighting the three charities selected for the campaign. The charity with the most votes as chosen by readers voting in the poll, will recieve $1 for every 1000 […]
Photo of Lenore Goldfarb from http://www.asklenore.com
Parenthood is always an adventure and I get a lot out of stories from people whose adventure is very different from my own. Lenore Goldfarb, a lactation consultant and breastfeeding educator. After many years of infertility, Lenore’s son was born via gestational surrogacy at 32 weeks. Lenore breastfed the premature […]
Everything I read, see or do has to do double duty. If it doesn’t lead to an idea for an article, then I better be able to blog it. Until I read And God Created the Au Pair. It is only the third book I have ever been unable to finish thanks to my extremely-high […]
Over the years, many people have suggested that experienced mothers in constant contact with new mothers – LLL leaders, playgroup volunteers, women’s faith group facilitators, for example – should be trained to recognise the signs of postpartum depression. The idea being that those women could then gather the community, social and medical resources together in order to help the new mother and […]
Comic by Owen Baggott.
Earlier this morning I had this conversation as follow-up to my day off yesterday.
Me: So, were the kids good yesterday?
My brother: Oh, come on, Kate. (rolls eyes)
Me: OK, were they good-ish?
My bother: Yeah, they were fine.
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I left both kids with my mother and brother yesterday. I went to Toronto to reconnect with my friends, my career and the city I love. Yes, what Minneapolis was to Mary on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Toronto was — and always will be – to me. Just walking down Queen St. in the sunshine (yes, Spring has finally come), […]
One of the reasons the Internet is such an important tool is that in enables everyone to participate in its development and share resources. Unfortunately, technology is also business and business is competition. That means basic blog etiquette, like linking back to quoted resources, is often just neglected. I am many negative things, but a traffic hog is […]
Babylune’s Mothering Sunday to Mothers’ Day Charity Campaign is chugging off to a wonderful start. In the first week, we’ve served up over 10 000 pages, 25 people have voted and the poll results are neck and neck.
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My love is monogamous. One husband. One child. I learned that I can only love one at a time. Now, suddenly, I must learn polygamous mother love. I must learn to love two different children with all my heart and soul, at the same time. I think I can’t, so I won’t go home from […]
Remember, if you have just given birth and are breastfeeding, pain killers that contain codeine, such as Tylenol3 are not recommended. The case study that revealed the danger has just been added to the Motherisk site.
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