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  • User post: 4 myths of breastfeeding

    Before I got pregnant, I hoped to breastfeed for a year, and I've just made the nine-month mark. Woo-hoo! Along the way I've learned that a lot of stuff I read or was told about breastfeeding beforehand just wasn't true -- or at least it wasn't true for me. It seems like everyone's breastfeeding exp

  • User post: Why I decided to let my baby "cry it out" ... even though I swore I never would

    I used to know a ton about raising children. Then I had one.One thing I knew, before I had my baby, was that I would never, ever let him cry it out to get him to sleep. Letting my poor, defenseless little baby cry alone in his crib? How cruel! I felt secure in the knowledge that by rocking/nursing/c

  • How do you celebrate without food?

    I seriously don't know the answer to this one. How do you celebrate good times -- or commiserate during bad times -- without food? Specifically, without sweet salty ooey gooey oh-so-good but bad-for-you food?My husband and I are trying to eat healthier, and we both have a huge soft spot for dessert.

  • Learning to love Mommy Brain: Why we are all really geniuses

    So some of the comments on my last blog post got me thinking, again, about mommy brain. I had been thinking about it a couple weeks ago, and then I got distracted, and then the baby blew out his diaper, and then the phone rang, and then I needed to go get groceries, but I forgot the milk, and then t

  • User post: Am I the worst mother in the world?

    Confession time. Bless me, mothers, for I have sinned. In the past few weeks, I have done the following:1. Fallen asleep while nursing on the couch, waking to the noise of a soft "thud," which was my seven-month-old son rolling off the couch and onto the floor, face-first. This being his first fall,