Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to rethink and revitalize your meal planning. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps Don’t worry: just because I used the terms “alternative” and “weird” in the title doesn’t mean we’re all going goth. These apple squares don’t have all that much to do with menu planning, [...]
Entries from October 10th, 2011
Babypalooza {GIVEAWAY – CLOSED} 14 Prizes for Baby and Mama ($240 value)
October 7th, 2011 · 26 Comments · What to Buy
Babies have pretty simple needs…but it’s still fun to have gadgets and goodies galore to just have fun with! One lucky winner simply cannot wait to get that email from me in a week and a half. Fourteen separate prizes will pamper a new mama and her baby while making life easier for everyone. The [...]
Natural Remedies (and Natural Products) for Postpartum Pain
October 6th, 2011 · 52 Comments · Natural Health
Stitches in human skin are no fun. Stitches on an extremely sensitive area that move and pull every time you sit, stand, walk, talk, cough, sneeze, and use the toilet? Now those are really a barrel of fun, don’t you think? In case you’re single and/or have never given birth, you might want to stop [...]
Tags: labor·natural birth·natural remedies·pain relief·postpartum·pregnancy
The Inside Scoop on School Lunch
October 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments · What to Buy
I’ve been thinking about Fed Up With Lunch all day. This is not the post topic I had in mind today for the “baby” theme this week, but I was so thrilled to see my blog colleague, Sarah Wu, on Good Morning America and The View this morning. I had the jitters for her because [...]
Tags: Fed up with Lunch·lunch
The Evolution of a Birth Plan, Three Kids Later
October 4th, 2011 · 71 Comments · Green Living, Natural Health
I was the mom in Bradley birth classes furrowing her brow at the stories of nursing toddlers, saying, "When my child is old enough to ask for mama’s milk, that’s when it’s been long enough." Eighteen months later, I was the mama with the screaming child: "I want milllllllllllllk!!!!" He didn’t wean until two-and-a-half. So [...]
Tags: antibiotics·babies·birth plan·circumcision·labor·natural birth·vaccines·Vitamin K
See Katie Write Letters
October 4th, 2011 · 23 Comments · Call to Action
I’m a former elementary school teacher. Ever since I was a child, I’ve always taught something to someone, whether it was my little brother against his will “playing school,” my students when I had a bona fide paid teaching job at a Catholic elementary, or my children when I became a mom. Now I type [...]
Monday Mission: Be an Advocate
October 3rd, 2011 · 22 Comments · Call to Action, Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to advocate for change. Make SOMETHING happen this week that you care about, in any arena. Impact Ratings: – your call Level of Commitment: Making Strides I find more and more that I am deleting online petitions and recycling envelopes from charities before I even open them. [...]
Tags: Call to Action·monday mission
