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Big Waves and When You Just Have to Go In: Slightly Metaphorically Speaking
I wasn’t planning on going surfing! Art asked me about five hundred times today if I wanted to go, and I just kept saying that I would rather just go for a quick swim while he took Margo to the...
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Baby Led Weaning: Starting Solids the Lazy and Effective Way
What can I say, Goldie was practically born IN the kitchen. Well, really she was born in the dining area next to the kitchen. It was close to the sink and in a nice cozy spot, so we moved the kitchen...
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A Dr. Sears Seminar… the Attachment Parent Guru!
While breastfeeding her baby, who should jump into the picture with the famous Dr. Sears… Yes, that would be me! My friend Angie was there with her tiny little newborn, who is just under 3 weeks old....
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Human Breast Milk Donations… Sounds Gross, But Is It Really?
A few years ago, I read in the news about an ice cream shop in the UK that was selling ice cream made from human breastmilk for something like $25 a pop. At the time, Margo had just been born and I...
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Adventures in Tandem Breastfeeding: Seven Months In, With a Little Rough Patch
Ok, once again, I can’t actually put a photo of me tandem breastfeeding because: 1. I didn’t have my phone handy to take a photo with 2. Because I don’t have a free hand to take a photo with anyway...
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Maybe I Ought to Just Burn My Clothes?
Vomit, pee, sweat, dribble, food, breastmilk… oh, you name it! Some days I think to myself that instead of putting my dirty clothes in the hamper, that tonight, maybe I should just burn them instead....
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Night-Waking and Night-Weaning; It’s Not All Night-mares
The attachment parents (AP) always cop it hard on this one: night waking. We don’t let our kids ‘cry it out’, we wear them, we co-sleep, we breastfeed on demand, and some of us even take our babies to...
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Yoga Session For All…. Mums, Bubs and the Older Kids: How to Make it Work
There are lots of mums and bubs yoga classes out there, (I guess they call them mommy and baby yoga in America, sorry, to all my American readers, my language has been totally Aussie-fied.). But… what...
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Top Ten Reason to Wear Your Baby or Child
We had to make a trip to Brisbane this morning and rather than sit in rush hour traffic with a screaming baby, we decided to take the train for our day trip. Since we were going to have a few bags to...
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Sibling Spacing from an Attachment Parent Perspective… Is Three the Magic...
My girls are two years and four and half months apart… just to be extremely exact. Margo was 20 months old when I found out I was pregnant. Early pregnancy exhaustion and nausea set in soon after I...
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Days Like These, So Easily Forgotten: Winter Solstice 2013
I stuck my finger in Goldie’s mouth today to find not one, but TWO little teeth starting to poke their way through her gums. One on the top and one on the bottom. It’s about time, she’s already 10...
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Very Extended and Tandem Breastfeeding: A Few Raised Eyebrows for Sure
The other day, I was watching this clip of Maggie Gyllenhall, talking about breastfeeding her baby while she was shooting for the movie, White House Down. The actress was saying how her daughter was...
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The ‘Terrified’ Twos
Forget the ‘Terrible Twos’… I think it should be called the ‘Terrible Threes’… But anyway, this post is not about anything terrible, but more about how terrified a young child can get over what seems...
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A Little Secret About Frequent Nighttime Waking in Babies and Toddlers
Just a few minutes ago, I was doing the dishes and I heard little babe squawk for about the third time since I put her to bed a couple hours ago. My husband is in there with her, so the first two...
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The Un-List of Everything You Need For a New Baby
Since the whole world’s got their attention on the new little royal baby, well, naturally, I started thinking about fresh little newborns. I saw some photos pop up on the ABC website, of Will and...
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Do You Let your Kids Cry? Letting Babies and Children Cry, In a Gentle and...
The house has been really trashed lately. I mean, like REALLY trashed. Margo’s three year old experiments and imaginary play have taken the mess to a whole new level. She’s not destroying the house,...
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Do You Follow the Golden Rule When Your Kids Take a Nap?
I sometimes call myself the ‘Nap Nazi’. Getting my kids down for a mid-day sleep at the same time is sort of my priority and I confess, I don’t like it when it doesn’t happen. My girls are 3 1/2 and...
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Meditation with a Baby in My Lap: Confessions of a Yogi Mom
What’s the first thing I do as soon as my kids fall asleep?! Do the dishes? Fold the laundry? Start cooking dinner? NO WAY! I unroll my yoga mat next to the bed where the kids are sleeping and...
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Angel Comfy Nursing Bra, Product Review
Click here to go directly to Katesurf’s facebook page to enter the GIVEAWAY of two Angel Comfy Nursing Bras (your choice of colour and size) offer ends 5 Oct, open only to Australia and NZ residents....
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To the All the Gentle Parents Out There… Tell Your Stories Loud and Clear!
I was being a smart alec tonight, and just for fun, I started googling the following ‘mean parenting‘ phrases to see what would turn up. Here are just a few that I looked for: how to get your kids to...
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