Posts by Peggy O'Mara

Seems like you could do better with home daycare that what you describe. I don't see any reason why home daycare has to be a compromise. As Natalie 12 says, they can be a good place. Do you have any other options to explore?

Seems like it would work out about the same electricity wise, assuming the water usage in your new, smaller dishwasher is also half of the bigger one. So, doing one load a day would probably be fine. Can you check with the...

This is just so amazing. We're going to keep the thread up for a bit longer because it just rocks so much.

You're right, herbsmd, I shouldn't dismiss cities out of hand. Chicago is also a great example of a cool city. I went to college in Milwaukee, Marquette and UWM, so know the city well but not for a long time. So, I don't associate it...

OK, now I'm salivating with hunger reading these new posts!!   Once I had dinner at a conference with Karen Pryor who wrote the classic breastfeeding book, Nursing Your Baby, Karen was a behavorial scientist and she...

Good point, queenjane. Labels do help us find friends of like mind. They do tell us about the values of a group. I liked that about LLL when I was a new mom, I knew where they stood and that I could find compatible moms there. And, AP...

Amazing numbers. May this be all of the US one fine day soon!! 

I think your son is more on the extreme end, too, sorry to say. Would it help to take a look at his biochemistry? Here's a great place, Pfeiffer Institute, that does that. Maybe they can recommend someone in your area. I assume you're...

Clean air is important here. Can we say that Milwaukee and NYC, for example, have clean air?

Just give it time.