Babylune

January 16th, 2008

#15. My Favorite Blog This Week

Eat 4 Today, a one-stop healthy-eating, nutritional advice, motivational blog, has been completely re-vamped. For anyone looking for advice about what to eat, this is the site to visit.
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January 16th, 2008

#1. What to Eat on Wednesday: Nutrition for New Mothers

On this blog and elsewhere, there have been a lot of helpful hints about how to make a healthy meal quickly, and even suggestions for vitamin rich recipes that are especially important for new mothers to eat to rebuild their tissues (but not the new fatty ones), restore their energy and help prevent […]

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January 14th, 2008

All About Babylune: The First Phase of New Motherhood

Lune is the French word for moon, the satellite that revolves around the earth, exerting its pull upon the tides and, according to the most respectable old wives, upon the female cycle, fertility, conception and birth.
In moon represents woman at her fullest: pregnant. After that, though, comes the blue moon, the postpartum period and the […]

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January 11th, 2008

Our Second Birthday

Can you believe that Babylune is two years-old today? Here is a link to the very first post.
And, to celebrate, links to the two most important posts I’ve ever written: A Long List of Discomforts and painkillers you should not take after giving birth.
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January 5th, 2008

#32. Sad, but True Speed Links for Saturday

Further to this issue, Chocolate Santa has something to say:

“I am now really, really stale and not worth eating at all.”
Repeat it until you believe it.
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December 29th, 2007

It’s the Healthiest Thing For Me

I declared my New Year’s Resolution a little early this year. I said that I want more time. More time to enjoy my family, more time to move my body, more time to do things other than work. This has meant taking stock of my life, of my relationships, and my various jobs. Obviously […]

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December 27th, 2007

Because Somebody has to Say It

It’s time to step away from the cookies.
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December 22nd, 2007

Well, We’re Kind of Tired

OK. On Christmas Eve we do the whole Bulgarian vegetarian feast. We eat bop and banitza, stuffed vine leaves and shopsky salad. There are three other smaller dishes on the table composed of peppers and eggplant, tomatoes and onions. It’s delicious, but as much as I love Bulgaria, it’s not my culture.
Usually, I like […]

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December 4th, 2007

The Eighteenth Healthy & Fit Family

The Eighteenth Healthy & Fit Family went live today at the host blog A Healthy Balance. As usual, I got dozens and dozens of submissions and Karen and I read all of them this weekend. The ten posts that made the cut are just stellar. By stellar, I mean informative, on topic and interesting to […]

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December 3rd, 2007

Mother’s Breastmilk Can Teach Children to Eat their Fruit and Vegetables

 
People who send new mothers gift baskets of fresh fruit have the right idea.
The best time to start your children on fruit and vegetables is while you’re breastfeeding. New research shows that breastfeeding mothers who eat fruit and vegetables have children who eat fruit and vegetables.
When breastfeeding mothers regularly eat foods like beans and peaches, […]

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