I have a love/hate relationship with weekly emails from BabyCenter. If you are pregnant, or are a parent, you know exactly what I'm talking about. By this week your baby is...
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When Heather (who had written a guest post for me last month) emailed me to let me know that Trupanion is holding a Pawliday Blog Contest, I knew that I had to participate...
Continue readingDo you guys watch videos on TED (tagline: "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world")? If not, you should — the site is filled with thought-provoking talks and discourses from some of the most exceptional people in the world. Yesterday, TED posted a presentation given by Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, the husband-and-wife team behind the popular websites Nerve and Babble. Their talk, titled "Let's talk parenting taboos," struck a chord with me because not only did they deliver it in a funny and enjoyable way, the content itself was honest and entirely relatable to where I am currently in my life. Grisom and Volkman explores 4 truths that parents are taught by society never to admit...
Continue readingToday I've decided to regale my readers with another post-partum mega update...
Continue readingQuit breastfeeding. Had to choose between quitting cold turkey and gradually quitting (by cutting out one pumping/nursing session every couple of days). Decided that engorgement pain is preferable to the razor-sharp pain from thrush I get every time my right breast is emptied. Smelled like cabbage soup as I stuffed my bra with cold cabbage leaves to help with the engorgement. Drank sage tea and Coke to help kill my milk supply. Regretted quitting more than once as my breasts became rock-hard and throbbed with pain. Leaked through numerous nursing pads, bras, and shirts. Felt overwhelming guilt for not providing the best available nutrition for my child. Felt further burdened by "lactivists" online who likened formula to poison, who informed me that if...
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