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The Bliss of Breastfeeding — I Parent By Nature

November 25, 2009

Dagmar Bleasdale: The Bliss of Breastfeeding I hadn’t given it much thought before, but the second I learned I was pregnant I knew I wanted to breastfeed. It was one of the things I looked forward to the most about being a mom. I just had a feeling that being able to deliver the nourishment [...]

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Did You Gain or Lose Weight After You Stopped Breastfeeding?

July 20, 2009

I keep saying that breastfeeding is the best diet I have ever been on, yet when I mention this a lot of women tell me that they feel like their bodies are holding on to weight they can’t shed because of their breastfeeding. My friend Karen warns me that I should be very careful after [...]

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Traveling with a Toddler — Day 1: Airplane and Car Rides

June 25, 2009

Since I wasn’t able to blog much while away, I want to recount my Germany trip with Landon and share the many great pictures I took: Landon and I flew from Newark, NY (around 5 p.m.), to Hamburg, Germany, to make our every-six-months-or-so pilgrimage to my parents and to see my friends. Don drove us to the [...]

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How I Became an Attachment Parenting Mom

June 4, 2009

People sometimes ask me why or how I became an attachment parenting parent, and that made me wonder myself. The truth is that I never planned to be an attachment parent, I didn’t even know about it until Landon was about two years old. It wasn’t until a few months ago that I finally made [...]