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Breastfeeding and Sleeping
Big topics! Topics that I’ve been reluctant to talk about because there are so many different approaches and the issue is so personal. I’ve been afraid to share our approach because I don’t want to be judged for it, nor do I want anyone to feel judged for their approach, simply because it’s different from our approach.… Read MoreOy.
But with parenting (and wedding planning and life), I personally believe that the best we can do is expose ourselves to lots of different options and then pick the ones that resonate with us. Once we make our choice and implement it, then we should continuously collect information about how it’s going
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Book Recommendation: From Diapers to Dating
I belong to an online community of mothers in Austin (called Austin Mamas) and a mothers’ group in my neighborhood (called The Heights’ Kids Group). Someone on one of the lists recommended the book called From Diapers to Dating: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children.… Read MoreI immediately ordered the book from the library, but when it arrived, I was hesitant to read it. I felt like I wasn’t prioritizing my parenting needs appropriately. I mean, surely there are more urgent and important things for me to be reading about as the mother of a 5-month old?
Boy, was I wrong!
I really believe that all parents should
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Making Our Home Child-Friendly
Henry – Crawling? from SaraMattHossHop-singClemHenry on Vimeo.Whoa, Nelly! Henry is essentially crawling!
I say “essentially” because–as you can see from the video–he’s not officially crawling. But he is certainly able to get himself from Point A to Point B in a pretty quick fashion.… Read MoreIt’s time to make sure our house is completely child-friendly. I like that phrase better than “child-proof.” We want our house to be a welcoming place for every family member (except the chickens are not welcome unless they opt to wear diapers, which they would hate!).
We didn’t do this earlier because we honestly thought we would be living in a new house by the
