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 [...]
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It’s been exactly a year today since the American Academy of Pediatrics updated their car seat recommendations to include rear-facing children until at least two, or until they outgrew their seat, and for older kids to stay in boosters until they were 8-12 years old and 4’9″. These simple recommendations, as we know, can and [...]
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People had mixed reactions to the amazing national Target Nurse-In. Some argue that events like that help people get used to the sight of nursing moms, others argue that it’s just a dramatic show, or even hurts the cause. That’s not my opinion, but people are definitely entitled to their own thoughts. Donn Esmonde, of [...]
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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. [...]
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This is the part where we gather around the proverbial parenting/mothering ‘campfire’ hug each other, and sing Kumbaya. Oh, and we hug, and cry, and tell each other we are perfect. And while we are dreaming lets pretend that through our awesomeness of just being a parent that we have cured poverty, world hunger, and [...]
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Long ago, though I won’t say HOW long, I was in middle school. I wasn’t even sure I liked boys, and I didn’t want kids at all. In fact, I promised my uterus to my gay friend Sam, as I swore I’d never use it (Samir, you can still have it, but now it’s a [...]
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Yesterday, I slapped my 16-month-old daughter in the face and yelled at her. A few years ago, I slapped my son in the face, and yelled at him. Was it for disciplinary reasons? No, of course not. I don’t practice that type of disciplinary action. It was merely because I can’t control myself. If you’re [...]
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I took my son to a new school, and eventually had concerns about the way the classroom was run. I spoke to the principal and the teacher privately, who assured me that their methods were good enough and all kids that had been taught with this method turned out just fine. That was good enough [...]
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