Posted in Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, General Musings, Mothering, Parenting, Toddler, tagged "the good earth", books, reading on 19 June, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I got a lovely little email from a bloggy buddy today just checking up to make sure I was ok, thank you bloggy buddy, it is so nice to know that faraway folk think of me
I am well and happy, my blood test results all came back good (what shockingly bad English I [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Co-Sleeping, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged breast feeding, night-weaning on 5 June, 2009 | 14 Comments »
It’s been 7 nights, some ups, some downs, but overall very positive and I am absolutely amazed to be able to write this but here it is…. Littlepixie is nightweaned!
We decided to attempt nightweaning to address some of my exhaustion issues, and (very surprisingly indeed) it has gone really well! We have had the most [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Co-Sleeping, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler on 29 May, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Just in case anyone is wandering by and wondering “I wonder what I can say to my friend to make her understand that she is doing a wonderful job as a mother, and to let her know that I am there for her, and support her breastfeeding & cosleeping choices even though I really do [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Children, Family, Holidays, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged Sling, slings, manduca, ssc, soft-structured-carrier on 5 April, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Over the last week or so, Littlepixie has been asking to go up in “blue sling”. She has developed a love of back carries in our Manduca, so it will be joining us on our holidays, which should hopefully make our buggy-free days easier!
It is a really comfy sling, probably the comfiest we have and [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged childrens-books, topsy and tim on 11 March, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Littlepixie has a new favourite in the world of books, Topsy & Tim. They are published by Ladybird and are basically just little stories detailing the lives of two twins, Topsy & Tim. LP has recently become fascinated with Ladybird books and our library has dozens of them, including about 10 T&T books, which we [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, Toddler, crafts, tagged etsy, wooden-toys on 20 February, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Look who arrived in my latest care package from Jumbleberryland, an adorable wooden mama carrying her baby on her back (it’s quite funny, she looks a little like me too)! It’s from Woodmouse loves wood, don’t ya just love Etsy?
Oh and there were Ginger-O biscuits too, and chocolate, nom nom nom, mustn’t type with my [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged filiokus, sjaltai, slings on 16 January, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I feel crap today, I have an icky cough and my eyes are so bloodshot that they ache, and I am cranky and I’m not sleeping because of my cold and my head hurts and……
Wheeeeeee, the post arrived with a present for me, hoorah! It is my Filiokus Sjaltai that I won in a raffle [...]
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Posted in Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Ireland, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, Toddler, health, tagged baby milk action, cow-and-gate, formula-advertising, ibfan, nestle on 15 January, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I’d like to take the marketing execs at Cow & Gate and smack them upside the head. Where do they get off advertising their formula with the slogan
Trust Cow & Gate…because healthy babies are happy babies
FFS, argh and argh again. And rollercoaster, shame on you for sending me such advertising in my email, have you [...]
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Littlepixie only slept 5-ish hours last night, we were up from about 04:30, it’s 08:30 now and she has nursed to sleep again, ahhhh…. peace. I’m browsing my Google Reader and enjoying the whine-free silence.
And I am reading an article on Kellymom which is exactly what I needed to read right now. I reckon some [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Mothering, Toddler, health, tagged breast feeding, menstruation, womens-health on 23 December, 2008 | 11 Comments »
This may be interesting to those of you who are interested in such things as the return of fertility during breastfeeding. For everyone else, feel free to skip this post, you could read this article on the history of breastfeeding instead, it’s very interesting and thought-provoking!
Here’s a “more” tag (or not if you are reading [...]
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