Posts by Janeen

Would love to check out the Children's Museum sometime when we have a little extra money to go as I've yet to take my five year old there. We not too far from Copeland and I know the bus goes by other parks in the area too so it would...

Also live in La Crosse with two girls ages 5 and 9 months.

We're here in La Crosse, WI and neither of my two girls have had any vaccines. My older daughter is five, only got the Vitamin K shot (she was born via cesarean so I was concerned) but was never vaccinated. We even went to South Korea...

There's a singer by the name of Priscilla Herdman who has a CD out of lullabies and night songs, the title is Stardreamer. My girls love it. I went looking for it before my older daughter was born due to a song I remember hearing when...

I know that there are a number of natural parenting moms in the Tuesday Mom group at the Family Resource center but the group itself is mixed up. Don't know of any actual natural parenting group in La Crosse though. It would be nice to...

I totally agree with all of this. I never realized how LONELY being a parent can be. No matter where I live, I'm dealing with near constant loneliness. I'm not the greatest at making new friends. It's hard for me and it doesn't help...

The book, Nourishing Traditions talks a little bit about this and I think it is due to the fact that we as a species started out as a hunter gatherer species and not as an agricultural species. Therefore, our bodies have not really...

Oh ouch, according to that chart, my daughter went from 51st percentile down to below 1 percentile! Yikes! She's just NOW up to past the 2nd percentile as of her six months appointment when she was at 12 lbs and 11 oz. I haven't been...

You think that's bad, mine dropped WEIGHT between two and four months. Talk about FREAKED! I can't remember what her percentile was but she was 11 lbs and 7 oz at 2 months and she dropped to 10 lbs and 12 oz at just past 4 months. The...

My little one is 8 months old and so far has had bananas, apple sauce, sweet potatoes, avocado, and peas (which I won't be doing again for awhile because she ended up with a yucky mucousy diaper after eating them). Oh and I sometimes...