Needs for antibiotics may make it so you should not breastfeed your baby, regardless of whether or not you had planned to. If the benefits of antibiotics out-weigh the cons, then obviously you need to do what you need to do. However, if you minimize the risk of you needing antibiotics in the first place, [...] Read more »
Media Births
While reading another blog the other day, some things were brought to my attention that I hadn’t really thought about before. The blog was vbac adventure and the post was about media births. A commenter, Kara, pointed out some media births (on the show “Friends”) that weren’t the typical horrifying portrayal of childbirth we usually [...] Read more »
Breastfeeding Benefits Babies
Besides growing up on a dairy farm and learning all the great benefits to milk and mother’s milk, I have also seen the benefits in my own children and I have found studies supporting my own findings. Mother’s milk is a natural meal for baby, whatever kind of mammal mother and baby are. One study [...] Read more »
Sandwich Generation
No, not real sandwiches, but I do like them, whether I’m pregnant or not. Here’s what I mean: I am part of what my dad likes to call “the sandwich generation.” What that means is that I am smack dab in the middle of the young (my babies) and the old (grandparents) and because of [...] Read more »
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