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Dagmar’s Momsense 2011 Year in Review

January 5, 2012

I wish I had this of Landon: Apparently, I took the time to write a Year in Review post for 2010 (I had totally forgotten), so before my time gets gobbled up with other posts, I want to reflect on 2011. What a year it has been. Many wonderful times and one devastating loss. Here [...]

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A Big Thank You and a Holiday Card For My Readers

December 22, 2011

I wish I could send every one of my wonderful readers a holiday card. If you didn’t get our cards in the mail, here is one just for you. I’m wishing you the most wonderful holiday season and a happy, healthy 2012. And I want to thank you so much for reading Dagmar’s momsense and [...]

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My Child’s Birth Went the Way I Had Hoped — Did Yours?

October 21, 2011

Education is Crucial to Have the Birth Experience You Want Did your child’s birth go the way you hoped it would? Mine did. For the most part. I was pregnant for the first time in my life, so of course I didn’t know what to really expect when the contractions finally started after 10 months, [...]

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Support A Local Small Business and Help it Win $25,000

August 12, 2011

I love being an entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur, you take what you love to do and turn it into a business, and I have been able to do that twice now. I worked as a subtitle editor for many years, but I knew that’s not what I wanted to do for the rest of my [...]

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Day 1 and 2 at BlogHer ’11 in San Diego

August 7, 2011

My BlogHer ’11 sponsor: SwaddleDesigns En route to BlogHer ’11, 4AM. I decided to call a car service so Don and L wouldn’t have to drive me to the airport in the middle of the night. That’s a lot of drink tickets… 10 drinks for 3 nights? I’ll let you know how many I used. [...]

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Why I Don’t Like the Term Mom Blogger and Don’t Write Many Reviews

April 29, 2011

I’m mom and a blogger but don’t like to be called a “mom blogger.” I’m a big advocate for natural birth, breastfeeding, and green living, and I want to cheer women on with my blog to go after what they want, be that finding a way to work from home or learning how to breastfeed. [...]

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What Happens to Mom Bloggers Once The Kids Grow Up?

April 1, 2011

Lisa Belkin mentioned how Heather Armstrong’s blog Dooce is changing now that her first daughter Leta is getting older and refusing to be photographed in her New York Times article “Queen of the Mommy Bloggers.” I have been wondering about this: what happens to the blog of a mommy blogger when the kids grow up? [...]

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Mommy Bloggers Paid to Review Similac App That Sabotages Breastfeeding

February 24, 2011

As a breastfeeding advocate who helps moms interested in breastfeeding or struggling with it with encouragement and resources, I’m so disappointed to find out that a few mommy bloggers decided to review the Similac StrongMoms Baby Journal iPhone application for money paid by Abbott Lab, some even though they are educated about breastfeeding and breastfed [...]

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Dagmar’s Momsense 2-Year Anniversary

January 23, 2011

Two years ago I wrote my first blog entry for Dagmar’s momsense! These two years have just flown by, I guess partly because blogging takes up so much of my time and it’s so much fun :) This blog has come a long way since then. I’m celebrating my anniversary with a new blog layout [...]

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Women Who Empower Features Dagmar Bleasdale

January 7, 2011

The always eloquent and witty Kristi from Live and Love Out Loud started a new series on her blog called Women Who Empower. She writes: “Everyday women – like you and me – have the power to change our world one step at a time. Each month here at Live and Love Out Loud, I’ll [...]

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New York Times: About Monetizing Motherhood and Blogging

November 6, 2010

The New York Times magazine ran an article about mommy bloggers two weeks ago: Monetizing Motherhood. It really only addressed blogging and the money companies are paying some moms to write product reviews and not all the other aspects of monetizing motherhood — books and TV shows come to mind. Most mommy bloggers will at [...]

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Blogging Rocks: Moms Helping Moms

October 30, 2010

One of my blogging friends, Yakini who writes The Prissy Mommy Chronicles, e-mailed me today to let me know she mentioned me in her latest blog post — Breastfeeding Updates + THANK YOU to Two Awesome Bloggers. I’m so honored! How sweet was that. I’m so impressed with Yakini, who is a doctor going back [...]

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Crash of Blog Leads to Dagmar’s Momsense New Look

October 5, 2010

I have a new toy — can you tell what it is? If you follow me on Twitter you maybe saw my frantic tweets a few days ago about ALL my Dagmar’s momsense blog posts, over 300, being gone. I had tried to add another button to one of my pages and for some reason [...]

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Giveaway: Win Dagmar’s BlogHer 2010 Swag!

September 26, 2010

You didn’t get to go to BlogHer 2010 in New York? Then you are in luck — you can win the BlogHer swag I collected for you while I was there! As I mentioned in my BlogHer Recap, I got way too many things to take home, so I thought I’d give two moms (or [...]

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Create Your Own Video Story With Google Search Stories

September 5, 2010

If you read Dagmar’s momsense regularly, you know that I love to find fun, free applications and things to do on the Internet, like these virtual fish who will eat the food you give them by clicking on the water or this amazing photography editing tool, PhotoFunia. Well, I was surfing the Internet yesterday and [...]

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Dagmar’s Momsense is TwitterMoms Blog of the Week

June 16, 2010

Yesterday, my friend Maria from New York Mom called me to congratulate me that I am the TwitterMoms Blog of the Week. Come again? When I finally had a minute, I checked my e-mails and sure enough, I’m mentioned as the Blog of the Week in the TwitterMoms newsletter: Hello, Dagmar Bleasdale! This weekly newsletter [...]

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Dagmar is a mom, blogger, columnist, editor, entrepreneur, and social media consultant. She writes about motherhood, natural birth, breastfeeding, attachment parenting, green and frugal living, decorating, blogging, and her love for Twitter and Nutella.

She lives in Westchester, NY, and teaches entrepreneurs and small businesses to take advantage of blogging and social media tools. She is the founder of imPROOF Proofreading, Editing, and Social Media Consulting.

Dagmar is a passionate breastfeeding, co-sleeping, and green/healthy living advocate and writes to empower women to believe in their instincts and to pursue their dreams.