Posts by SplashingPuddle

Circumcision is not an issue in our house of girls, yet I do support circumcision as a choice that a boy can make later in life if he wants to.  Since I don't know of any medical reasons for circumcision of infants (male or...

Congratulations beaglemommy.  Our 3-year old also decided that she didn't want to cut the cord either. The midwife was great because she redirected our daughter away from some of the bloodier parts like delivering the placenta....

Our LO is 8 days now and it has been hard on our 3-year old daughter. Yesterday at dinners she was having a really hard time (kicking, grabbing at baby etc), so I rocked her in my arms like a baby at the dinner table, sung to her, and...

Coco:  We did the home study course for hypnobabies that can be purchased off their website.  If you enter the coupon code hypnomp3 it will give you 50% off the price listed, which might make it a bit more reasonably priced....

Our baby girl arrived May 2nd after an extremely short labour.  I started to feel some contractions around 2:30am but wasn't sure it was labour until 3:30am.  It was still mild, then a stronger contraction around 4:45am. At...

We just had an amazing home birth, and I am so grateful it was a home birth because there is no way we could have made it to the hospital. 11 minutes after calling the midwife to come, our daughter was born.  Good thing she lives...

Our baby girl arrived May 2nd after an extremely short labour.  I started to feel some contractions around 2:30am but wasn't sure it was labour until 3:30am.  It was still mild, then a stronger contraction around 4:45am. At...

Our baby girl arrived May 2nd after an extremely short labour.  I started to feel some contractions around 2:30am but wasn't sure it was labour until 3:30am.  It was still mild, then a stronger contraction around 4:45am. At...

I have also been oblivious about Eden Organics.  We buy their beans in summer, but use dried beans in the winter when we have a wood stove going anyways.   For insomnia, I am finding hypnobabies scripts helpful -in...

I am thinking about having my 3-year old cut the cord with my partner.  But I also realize that its completely unpredictable.  Today she bit me so hard I bled.  I am trying to keep realistic (ie fairly low) expectations...