Posts by fullofhope08

Voondrop - I love your story! that would be perplexing to the babysat child. But it's great that teh kids have such an understanding of birth as a natural event. lunchforthesky - glad all went well - our little ones are amazing aren't...

thanks Trisha! that is helpful :)

Trisha, I have a question fro you if you don't mind. I feel equally passionate about encapsulation and burying the placenta. So my thought was to only encapsulate a portion of it - so have some benefit but still ensure some of it is...

I love babywearing for the simplicity of it - no need to lug a car seat holding a baby, baby/little one is content to be close and I can still use my hands to do what I want. Expecting baby #2 next month and I can see I will babywear...

I've known about this for years but could never wrap my mind around it. I didn't do it with my first - that placenta is buried in our yard nourishing an apple tree. I found the postpartum tough last time - it took forever for the...

hi all, Our almost 3 year old ds is generally a sweet child, very easy going and up for anything that's going on. We are trying to teach him emotional awareness so when he hits or acts up, we try to identify the emotion that may be...

oh, forgot to mention. We also have used aloe as a sun protector - that's all we put on our toddler when we feel we need to put something on him. I'm guessing it would be ok on babies.

We're not overly careful about sun exposure I guess...we don't generally use sun screen for any of us. We are thankfully all blessed with skin that tans well, rarely burns, so we're probably slacker than we should be. Our ds was also...

Sassyfirechick, I wonder if your grandparents were from my area originally. Our french is far from Parisian french, we live pretty rurally and it would definitely have been backwoods and isolated in your grandparents time, and so many...

I've been giving this a lot of thought lately and it's so interesting how approaches can vary so greatly. It's nice to hear how you all decided to approach the situation with your kids, and good to know how kids deal with how languages...