Baby Moon

I have been very much enjoying having a newborn around again. I forgot just how precious a tiny, squishy baby really is. We’re nearing the end of Kris being off of work and I am sad to think we won’t have him around all the time soon. It’s nice just because we like having [...]

Coming Back

I just realized it’s been over a month since I last posted. There are so many ideas and posts floating around in my head and half finished as drafts, it surprises me a bit I haven’t published any of them. We have been busy though. My mom came out for a last minute visit [...]

Sleeping through the night

A while ago, I posted an article about the Natural Age of Weaning by Dr. Katherine Dettwyler. I recently found another article by the same person about childhood sleep patterns that I feel is very well written and worth a read. Meredith still doesn’t “sleep through the night” by most people’s [...]

Bye-bye mush. So long, strained carrots.

By Fiona Morrow

 VANCOUVER — It’s time to pack up the pea purée and toss the baby rice. No more blending beans, mashing bananas or whipping sweet potatoes.

Fed up with rigid timetables for the introduction of first foods, a growing number of parents are giving up on spoon feeding and letting the kids [...]

Today

Last week, out of the blue, a writer for the Globe & Mail contacted me and asked if she could interview me about an article she’s writing on baby-led weaning (not to be mixed up with child-led weaning). Baby-led weaning is the process of starting solids by offering your baby the same foods you [...]

Babies' nursing workouts build lung capacity

By Anne Harding

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The exercise that babies get while suckling at the breast may be an essential component of the respiratory benefits associated with breastfeeding, new research shows.

Dr. Ikechukwu U. Ogbuano of the University of South Carolina in Columbia and colleagues found that by 10 years old children [...]

Split Lip

Meredith split her lip last night. Poor baby. She was playing with Kris on a hill and fell and bit right through her lip. Both sides were bleeding and today it’s very puffy. We were a bit on the fence on whether to take her to the ER for stitches, but it stopped bleeding [...]

Natural Age of Weaning

Aristotle at 5 months with mom Kat

I found this interesting article about weaning: Natural Age of Weaning. The author has looked into variables that affect weaning in other animals (especially primates), and then made predictions on when a human’s natural age of weaning would be based on those. She also discusses the benefits of extended nursing. Now [...]

La Teta: to give the breast is to give life

I just stumbled on this beautiful video today, a PSA from Puerto Rica. I wish things like this would be shown in North America, to show breastfeeding as something normal and natural and to show breasts as something other than [...]

Update

Well, I haven’t posted in a couple of months. Mostly because I decided I’m not a very good writer anyway and it’s doubtful anyone even reads this. But in reality I’m writing this more for myself to look back on than for anyone else so I’ve decided to keep it up again, at least [...]

“It is as true now as it was then that no matter what tests show, very little of what is taught in school is learned, very little of what is learned is remembered, and very little of what is remembered is used. The things we learn, remember, and use are the things we seek out or meet in the daily, serious, nonschool parts of our lives.”
~ John Holt

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