Breastfeeding advocates can’t help it — when we see that a popular show or magazine is looking to discuss full-term (or extended, as they always say… or extreme) breastfeeding, we can’t help but get our hopes up a little, hoping it goes well and is beneficial to the cause. But we also wince, cringe, and [...]
Tags: breastfeeding, dr. phil, education, gma, good morning america, jamie grumet, media
Time magazine is going to start a mommy war. And they’re just getting in on what the blogs have already been brewing for a long, long time now. The subject of extended breastfeeding and attachment parenting. Along with Dr. William Sears. I love the image. A beautiful mom nursing her 3-year-old son. I hate what [...]
Breastfeeding is tough. Even if you’re lucky and don’t buy into the many, many Booby Traps in your way, from formula advertising to misleading doctor advice, you still face another challenge, possibly the toughest one: Your fellow breastfeeding mothers. If you’re familiar with us here at Daily Momtra at all, you know breastfeeding is a [...]
Tags: breastfeeding, parenting, parenting choices, support
Have you ever heard the phrase “Fervor of the Born-Again”? You know, where people who are new to an idea, lifestyle or belief system are so fervent about it that they can be overbearing to the point of turning people off to an idea? I used to be like that with breastfeeding. I really did. [...]
Tags: activism, advice, breastfeeding, education, parenting choices
As an avid user of FuzziBunz cloth diapers on my little guy Brody, I was absolutely thrilled when I was recently given the opportunity to interview Tereson Dupuy, the brilliant mind that created FuzziBunz diapers in 1999. I was even more excited when I learned that FuzziBunz is currently selling a “Light it Up Blue” [...]
Tags: autism, Autism Speaks, cloth diapers, fuzzibunz
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
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