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Part Seven: Returning home, time to reflect and question

May 24, 2012 Written by birth stories , Pregnancy and Birth

Returning home Like all new mums I was desperate to show my baby his new home. Six days after Ewan was born, we returned home. The landscape shined with brightness from the sun, viewing it as if seen for the first time. The past seven days felt like a year. The house appeared somehow different. [...]


Posted by: Caroline Jane Cole
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May The Force Not Be With You!

May 23, 2012 Written by Family

If the “control force” is great with you, don’t turn it onto your spouse and your kids. Use it to control your own stuff – work, clutter, books, clothing or whatever, if you must. Just don’t turn that control beam onto the people you love as it will only move you further away from connection. [...]


Posted by: Chaley Scott
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Why is the medical profession so uneducated about the benefits of extended breastfeeding?

May 23, 2012 Written by Beyond Infancy , Breastfeeding , Nursing While Pregnant , Tandem Nursing

  Research shows extended breastfeeding has overwhelming benefits to mother and child. As an advocate of extended breastfeeding for the benefit of mothers and children, I was pretty miffed to read this article today  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2146870/Breastfeed-year-old-Thats-just-selfish-wrong.html.  Dr Cannon’s views, of course, are nothing new but it got me thinking about how scary it is that our medical profession are so [...]


Posted by: Chaley Scott
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New York Times Covers Ina May Gaskin and the Battle for Midwifery and Homebirth

May 23, 2012 Written by birth stories , Homebirth , Midwifery , Pregnancy and Birth

From “Mommy Wars: The Prequel, Ina May Gaskin and the Battle for at-Home Births,” Samantha M. Shapiro, New York Times Magazine, May 23rd, 2012 One Monday morning last spring, Ina May Gaskin got into her golf cart and drove it down the dirt road away from her home on the Farm, a community of 175 residents [...]


Posted by: Melanie Mayo-Laakso | Mothering.com
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Essential Oils: The Importance of Purity

May 23, 2012 Written by General , Health , Nature

There are so many essential oils on the market that it can be challenging to know which to buy and why.  Prices vary, often dramatically so for the same oil, even among those labeled “100% Pure”.  So why the difference and does it really matter? The answers to those questions depend on the reasons you’re [...]


Posted by: Amy Paolinelli
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are you positively addicted?

May 23, 2012 Written by Inspiration

So here’s my new favourite concept: positive addiction. I just love the sound of it. It’s righteous and honest … a great combo. “I’m hooked, but it’s all good. No, really. I’m addicted, but it is positively healthy.” Like it. I was talking to a friend today (okay, it was my shrink,) about my almost, [...]


Posted by: Danielle LaPorte
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