Posts by Altair

We have 2 favorite smoothies at home (my son and I).   1-- protein smoothie is frozen banana, peanut or almond butter, a little cocoa powder, and milk or soy milk.    2.  fruit/greens smoothie is frozen and...

CAKEPOPS!!!  I can't stop buying the Starbucks ones and making my own...  Yuuuummmm.... 

This is how we shared the gender, announcing that he was kissing his little sister:     We also have a video of him telling us the gender.  When we were pregnant with him we only had a 20 week U/S, and since it...

This is how we shared our news of #2, our Christmas card:  

Wow.  I'm not really sure what to say.  It sounds as though her baby will be born into an incredibly harsh, close-minded, judgmental community.     Maybe, just maybe that same communities unwillingness to see...

Thank you.  :-)  Everything was dishwasher safe?  I'm getting a dishwasher installed just to deal with pump parts and bottles!

this was about a week and a half ago... 20 weeks and a few days.       Perfect time to go on vacation!    

My husband is an actor and movie lover, and I never watched TV before meeting him and didn't want to expose our child to TV before 2, and much at all after that.  If we had started out in a 2 BD, I might have put the TV in our...

I used a Medela PISA for my last baby, and was able to pump while working FT for a year.  I need to buy a new pump this time around and I know some are recommending the Hygeia.  I understand the benefits in terms of WHO...

I can't use hormones, and the spermicide really bothered me, so I read some studies that you could use the diaphragm with just lube or nothing. I was pregnant within a few months! The non hormonal IUD seems to be my only effective...