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 […]
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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This, is my tattoo (not actual size).
I was young(ish). I was cool (fleetingly). I knew that I would always be able to love Love. And yet, the sad truth is, my mother was right. Love should never have seen the end of the tattooist’s pen.
Hidden from the casual viewer (well, not anymore), Love is showing […]
3.5 hours. That’s how much sleep most new mothers get each night for the first 4 months of their babies lives. That’s according to a study in the UK from Mother & Baby Magazine.
An article in the Guardian about the study repeated a number of statistics that might shock those of us who haven’t lived […]
Christina at Solomother has tagged me in the Ten Things That Happened to Me meme. Babylune is about recovering from child birth and I think I should stay on topic at least sometimes, so here are ten things that happened to me when I was trying to get pregnant, pregnant, giving birth or […]
Zdravei!
The kids and I have just returned to our base here in Bulgaria after spending 5 days on the Black Sea with my husband’s cousin and his family. Sometimes, my life is difficult :-)
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I am rather well-disposed toward Angela Hoy. I wrote a post about her VBAC blog when she was expected her son and, as a writer, I use her Writer’s Weekly site when I am looking for more freelance work.
More importantly, through writing this blog I am interested in sharing information with women about pregnancy, birth […]
Thanks to the Mistakes Made & Lessons Learned GWP and the book contest, Babylune was a slightly more popular blog in June than it was in May. I expected the most-read posts this month to be slightly different than May’s most popular posts, but there were some surprises.
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You’ve probably heard that maternity leave is a year long in Canada. This is not strictly true. If you are married and have a baby while both partners are employed and qualify for government (un)employment insurance, then parental leave is 50 weeks long (there is a two-week waiting period before you can collect the benefits.
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In recent months there have been huge efforts to inform women and their partners about the existence of Postpartum Depression (PPD) and Post Natal Depression (PND). There’s just one problem. Many doctors aren’t including important questions to diagnose PPD when they examine new mothers says a new study.
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