It sometimes feels like no one does. Moms who have experienced a traumatic birth need special support after. Often friends and family are not aware of how to provide this. My first birth was a surprise emergency cesarean at 34 weeks. It was scary and traumatic to me, my husband and my baby. The friends […]
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We have so many water bottles. Over the years we have gathered many different types. My system for storing them improved when I finally found one I LOVED! But I still had the older ones I had bought, so my system wasn’t perfect. So for my 52 Weeks of Organizing Challenge for this week I
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As I declutter and simplify my life, I have found a few of my favorite things I want to give away to my readers. Baby Signing Time is one of those things. I have Volume 1 and Volume 2 DVD and the Song CDs, which I think is this set – though the pictures have
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I get a lot of questions about Vitamin K. This is a routine shot they give to babies after they are born, to help prevent a rare blood clotting problem that very few babies are born with. (1 in 100,000) Should you let your baby get this shot? There are pros and cons to it.
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Sita is doing a guest post to share her experience about success with Hypnobabies. I shared this in an earlier post. Moms need to start asking the questions, Did Hypnobabies help you during your pregnancy? Did Hypnobabies help you during your birth? Sita replied: I love that you brought this up. I totally agree with
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If you have more then one child, you have this problem. How do I organize waiting clothes? Clothes don’t fit T1 – but are still to big for T2, so where do I store them? You can see here, I sometimes just throw them on a shelf high up in their closets. I also have
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I believe in the power of music. Safe in the Arms of Love is a great resource to harness the power of music. What do you get with Safe in the Arms of Love: Deepening the Essential Bond With Your Baby? The Book The book has a collection of essays which teach about how to
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Sometimes the usefulness of taking childbirth classes is questioned. A study has shown that they may have no benefits, but that study didn’t take into account the type of class they parents took. I think that the usefulness depends on the type of class taken. Choose your Childbirth Class Wisely There are some hospital childbirth
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If a painless birth is what makes a Hypnobabies mom a success then, I’d have to consider myself a failure…and I don’t. I used this program and my birth was not pain free but I feel that I was a “success”. Many Factors are at Work There is an awful lot that affects us as
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May was a good month, my main focus was May is for Meals! Here are my goal updates for May. I met my goal of 24 books for the year – I am up to 27 and increased my goal for the year to 40. But I am marking this as completed in my mind.
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I usually post my goals on Mondays, but I got a little off schedule. But that is OK because I accomplished my goals last week! So this is a goal/organizing post. Join the 52 weeks of organizing at Organizing Junkie! I had another week where I cooked meals we ate together sitting at our CLEAN
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I just learned that the FDA is seizing birth tubs and threatening to destroy them, because They claim they are unregistered medical equipment, but they are not providing a way or means to get them registered. Really? This pretty green tub is a medical DEVICE??? At the Childbirth Today blog they said, I also realize
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Here are my thoughts as a Hypnobabies instructor and as a Hypno-Doula of over 30 of my students: My first response is No! But I think in reality: It depends on how you define success! I say something like this in the first class: The purpose of Hypnobabies is not to have a pain free
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A thoughtful reader of my blog, sent me an e-mail letting me know about this recall. I am happy to pass it on! ducduc llc is recalling about 330 fixed-side cribs. The bottom rails on the crib sides can separate from the sides when the mattress is in the lowest position, causing the spindles to
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Look what I have! For the 52 Week Organizing Challenge this week I cleaned out our Master Bathroom. So before my Mom freaks our or my friends faint, let me say, This is the pregnancy test from T3. Yes, I had it saved in a drawer. For 6 years! I don’t know why. I had
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