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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
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Pinterest Has New Meaning Now That I Have A Daughter
I am obsessed with Pinterest. I always have been, but now that I have a daughter, it's taken on a new meaning.
I want to pin nothing but pink girly crafts, tutorials for sewing and knitting (two things I am no good at), and fun party ideas for birthdays.
It's a sick, sick obsession that my husband doesn't understand. He doesn't understand Pinterest to begin with.
So I'm going to share with you a few of the things I have found!
If you have a daughter, prepare to fall in love!
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Successful Celebrities Raised by Single Moms
I always thought that being a single mother was impossible until now - I am currently 8 months pregnant now, without baby's father.So here's the list of awesome successful celebrities who were raised by single mothers that boost my confidence, showing me that impossible things can morph into possible situations.
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012
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Tell Me Tuesday: Are You The Mother You'd Thought You'd Be?
Back when you played with dolls and pretended to be a mommy, you had a certain way of doing things. You diapered and fed your baby a certain way, and you pretended to take your baby to the park or to the grocery store. You had this whole little world imagined, and it was perfect.
But was it reality? Was it a peek into your future?
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Monday, 14 May 2012
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Munchkin Arm & Hammer 3-in-1 Potty Seat Giveaway
Hey mom (and dad)! Welcome to the wonderful world of potty training! It's the land of needing to take an extra set of clothes everywhere you go "just in case"!. It's a time of learning independence, and plenty of celebration and rewards!
Munchkin and Arm & Hammer want to help you out, and have graciously offered their super cool 3-in-1 Potty Seat as a giveaway!
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Sunday, 13 May 2012
Friday, 11 May 2012
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A.K.F's Birth Story
It's almost four weeks later later, but I figured I'd type my birth story out so that I can remember it years down the road. Not that giving birth is something I will be forgetting any time soon, but at least I'll have the details down. Like all birth stories, this will be LONG.
I started having stomach pains around 4:30am Thursday, Oct. 6. At first, I thought I had to poop but after a few failed attempts, I realized that what I was feeling were contractions. By 6:00am, I was timing them and getting things ready in case we needed to head to the hospital.
Around 7:00am, I woke DH up and told him we needed to start making our way to the hospital. My contractions were about 6 minutes apart and lasting a minute by 8:00am, and painful enough that I had to breathe through them. We left and got to Cedars around 10:00am.
Thursday, 10 May 2012
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Time Magazine Sheds Light on Extended Breastfeeding
“You’re STILL doing that? Isn’t she old enough to stop that? If she can ask for it, then she’s too old!” Yep, I’ve heard them all. My daughter is 13 months old so that means I have crossed the line into, no-mans land, a.k.a. Extended Breastfeeding.
I didn’t plan to breast feed past one year, shoot, I didn’t even know if I’d make it to six months! I’m not a co-sleeping, granola-crunching, attachment parent that people would expect to do something so “audacious” like breastfeed my toddler. I’m just a mom that wants to give my child the best of me.
Breastfeeding didn’t come easy for us. My milk took nine days to come in and my daughter didn’t latch on for nearly two weeks. It took lots of tears, persistence, and hours with Dr. Google to make it through those rough first months of nursing, but we made it. I fought so hard to give my baby the best food in the world, so why the hell would I stop giving to her because of what some ignorant people might say?
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Why Would You Ever Do the Co-Sleeping Thing?
Jenny and I are both just about to die with whatever bug we're both sick with. She has a follow-up with her pediatrician tomorrow early in the morning so I decided to have her sleep with me because I just washed her bedding yesterday. I figured we'd both sleep in my bed and be sick, then I'll wash my sheets tomorrow.
I've heard of people doing the whole co-sleeping thing, where you sleep with your baby - why! I can't sleep with my baby. She's driving me nuts! I'm waking up every ten minutes with her kicking me in the gut. Around midnight I woke up about every five minutes with scratches all over my neck. I was so out of it - it took me almost twenty minutes to realize Jenny was shredding me to bits. I've had to go dig up her mittens and turn the air way up so she doesn't get overheated. Now she's latched onto me - yeah okay it's super cute and everything - but every time I move her she does it again. I don't want to crush my baby. Plus, we're both sick so she keeps coughing on me.
Tuesday, 08 May 2012
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What Do You Think? Real or Fake?
Professional photographer Lynsey Stone recently won the 2011 National Geographic photo contest grand prize ( 10,000 bucks!) with this photo of her delivering her baby into her husband's hands. The photo was entitled "I Love You Baby," which Ms. Stone said she was yelling at the time the photo was snapped.
Personally, I doubt that. Her expression in the photo suggests that she was actually yelling "THIS ******ING HURTS!!!!" but I digress.
Anyway there's been a great deal of controversy over this photo because many people do not believe that this was a genuine childbirth being snapped. When the photo was posted on a popular blog for new mothers most of the commentators believed that the photo was "staged." The setting seemed too polished. Ms. Stone's physique seemed too trim for a woman in late pregnancy. Her hair was too clean and shiny. The pose too camera-perfect. Many commentators asked: is the photo a fake? Is this really a childbirth?
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Roy's Birth Story
My husband and I were living in Seoul, South Korea when I gave birth to our son. It was my first pregnancy so of course I was clueless... and overdue (which is normal for first-time moms or "primagravias" as the docs like to call us). About a week after my scheduled due date I noticed some blood in my underwear. It was just a smear, nothing much, but I told my husband anyway. He called his sister and she told us that the baby "should be coming soon."
"Do you feel any pain?" My husband asked."No, just the blood spots," I replied. Still, I was a little worried. I had heard about "bloody show" but everybody had said that bloody show was "pink" or "blood-tinged" or "bloody, pinkish discharge." Nobody said anything about straightforward blood. I wasn't bleeding much but what I did have was definitely blood, like dark menstrual blood. There was nothing pink about it. I checked my symptoms online (yes, I know,... not a smart move) and got answers from: "Oh, that's just a precursor to labor" to "OMG!!! U N UR BABIE R GONNA DIE NOW!!!!1!".... so I was now worried and no less confused than before.More Here...
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