Melanie talked about how her interests and life shifted towards breastfeeding and baby rearing and while it’s her passion, she felt like other passions were slipping away. I know I’ve felt much of the same, but at the same time, I love my job now, and my interest are driven by that love. But at [...]
Tags: feeling like you have no time to yourself, mothering, personal interests, time for mom
Congrats to our winner, Taylor! Please let us know when you get your prize and how you like it! We’d love a picture! I’m super-excited to be able to do a giveaway of a brand spankin’ new Moby Wrap — a product that is in my top 3 things that every mom needs (the other [...]
Tags: babywearing, giveaway, moby wrap
We’ve had some great discussions about how language in this country puts formula as the NORM, and we need to change it to use breastfeeding as the healthy guideline. For example “Breastfeeding lowers SIDS rates” isn’t actually factual. That puts formula as a baseline. The truth is, with breastfeeding as the biological norm, NOT breastfeeding [...]
Tags: breastfeeding, breastfeeding education, doctors and breastfeeding, education, health & medicine
I was in the store and decided to take a wee little gander at the ingredients in a Sponge Bob bubble bath bottle for kids. Then I looked at the Dora bubble bath. Next the Mr. Bubble. I shouldn’t have been shocked really. But I still was. Being the overly worried about what’s in everything [...]
This supposedly banned Super Bowl commercial by PETA — Milk Gone Wild — is a spoof on Girls Gone Wild and while I totally cringe every time I see the very drunk chicks showing off their boobs, I think I may be more offended by PETA’s version. Mainly because I can’t blame the booze or [...]
Tags: breastfeeding
I love breastfeeding. I love the act, the benefits, the hormones released, the sleepy smiles and sweet cuddles. Everything about breastfeeding -even the tough parts- are completely wonderful and awesome to me. I want nothing more than for every mother to be able to experience what I’ve experienced. It has transformed my life in so [...]
Tags: baby, breastfeeding, mom
Just when I thought I’d heard it all in terms of ridiculous lawsuits, I read about this California mother who is suing Nutella because it isn’t healthy. What the heck? Is this really what we have come to? Who on earth thought that Nutella was health food to begin with, anyway? Follow @dailymomtra
Tags: health food, healthy treats, nutella, nutella lawsuit, saturated fat
I’m watching Lifetime’s One Born Every Minute and while I love love love seeing a beautiful baby being born and the joy that comes in that moment I want to jump through the television and give some people epidurals in their face. I was prepared to feel this way. I was warned. But I was [...]
Tags: birth
My name is Christie and I have ammonia problems. Or, I did anyway. My husband kept asking me if I’d left a dirty diaper somewhere because he’d smell the strong ammonia smell when Aurora peed, and he was starting to worry that she was dehydrated, despite my insistance that it was just our nasty diapers. [...]
Tags: ammonia problems, cloth diaper detergent, cloth diapers, diapers smell like ammonia, review, stripping diapers