Protected: Class 23: Understanding common newborn procedures
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The reality of breastfeeding and raising kids in America is that we have kids and they are to fit into the lives we already have somehow. The true reality, however, is that babies shouldn’t have to conform to our schedule and the breastfed baby should not be on a feeding schedule.
I never met my grandmother. Before she ever reached her 50th birthday, she had breast cancer that had spread into her bones. So in 1969, my grandmother passed away leaving behind five kids that would have countless kids and grandkids of their own. And from a very early age, I mourned the fact that I…
Not only am I still in the season of post-pregnancy that means all of my hair is falling out in hands full at a time, but I also have a dog that sheds constantly and toddler that is messy in her own way. So when my sweet baby girl is rocking and rolling on her…
In my adventures of breastfeeding, none have been quite as interesting and complicated as tandem nursing a newborn and a toddler. And even as I sit down to type this now, I am on the verge of my own momma meltdown just thinking about the struggles I am having with my toddler and the possibility…
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It was 2011, I had been married for a year, and I was teaching sophomore in my dream job. I had 125 kids that I loved, care for, and called my own. So when I sat in the girls’ bathroom during my planning period waiting the excruciatingly long 3 minutes to see if just a line…
In my pursuit of natural birth and raising natural kids, bathing is something we haven’t routinely enforced as newborn and infant. I wipe my baby’s bottom and I clean up spit up off her chin, but really… I never bathe my baby. And this is not even a second-child syndrome type of thing; I have…
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