In today’s Mothering magazine online the question to the expert “How do I live with the deep regret of having our son circumcised? He is almost 10-months-old now, and I am still struggling with this. Sadly, I did not find out the facts until it was too late.” really struck home with me. I feel [...]
An article in Science Daily explains why breastfeeding helps with IQ. Apparently it helps raise IQ for 90% of babies, which is pretty cool! One more reason to feel good about our decisions to breastfeed.
“In two studies of breast-fed infants involving more than 3,000 children in Britain and New Zealand, breastfeeding was found to raise [...]
we watched the dnc last night while Tom played, clapped with the crowd, snuggled… I hope we get a democrat in office. With the way the republicans are wasting all our money, racking up debt, selling off our natural resources, it seems like the world (or at least our part of it) will be so [...]
there’s an article today in a South African news site (iol.co.za) called Play-back time, where they say that 79% mothers polled, from 10 countries, believe that ”people in my country have forgotten the importance of learning through play and other unstructured experiences for children.”
I’ve heard other moms here with school-aged children complaining about this, but that somehow doesn’t [...]
Today at the children’s gym was the first time someone commented on Tom’s height and then wouldn’t let it go. Almost everyone feels compelled to either say “he’s tall” or “what a great smile”, for, in fact, he is tall and does have a great smile. He’s also very clever, curious, and sweet… But mostly [...]
this morning we got up and going early so that we could get to an open house at a new ‘children’s gym.’ I couldn’t tell if Tom thought it was too noisy and busy, or if I was just projecting… It really was noisy and busy. At first it seemed fun, but then the actual [...]
We’ve spread out Tom’s vaccines just a little bit, and mainly because I didn’t want him to have vaccines in the hospital when he was a month premature, and then I didn’t like the bedside manor of the nurse who was going to give him his 12 month shots so I said no, we’d come back [...]
There has been a lot of conversation lately about whether to feed babies whole milk or low fat milk. Tom’s still nursing, but he does have cow milk with his cerial and smoothies…
Someone sent out a link to new APA suggestions that babies prone to obesity get low fat milk, but there’s a lot of [...]
Tom is 15 months old now… The last couple weeks we have met several older toddlers at the park that want to give him kisses. The first time this happened, a little girl walked up and kissed him. Tom stumbled back a couple steps, looked suprised and confused, and then got a big smile on his face [...]