Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting

Community Baby

January 5, 2010

Our community is about to welcome another member in to its midst. One of our couples are expecting their first baby any day; at the moment they are a few days past her EDD. I think babies being “late” is a good introduction to being a parent and how a baby is going to turn [...]

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Dads Can Help Breastfeed Too

January 4, 2010

Button your shirt back up – that’s not exactly what we had in mind. But, you’re much more valuable to the breastfeeding experience than you think. Dads can certainly contribute to successful

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Gift-Giving from the Heart and Hands, Not the Wallet

November 19, 2009

This week on The Attached Family online, Attachment Parenting International members can read the debut of the “Professional Parenting” series, a column written by Judy Arnall, Canadian mother of five and author of the widely acclaimed Discipline without Distress – you should see my well-worn copy of the book that gives parents real tried-and-true discipline [...]

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Birthday Boy

October 23, 2009

Today is my son’s birthday; he is eight years old.  He is my firstborn. I have been a parent for eight years.  My parenting has evolved during that time. When I was first pregnant with him, I had visions of a cheery, chubby baby who would enter my life, but wouldn’t alter it significantly.  I’d [...]

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The Making of Me

October 15, 2009

After I had my son I felt lost. I was starting to feel like I had a hang of the whole pregnancy thing. I wasn’t comfortable by any means but, after 9 months and being 2 weeks overdue, I really just thought I would be pregnant forever. At least it was familiar. Then my son [...]

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Natural Birth & Pain Management

August 11, 2009

I never expected to give birth naturally.  When my husband and I found out we were expecting our first child’s birth in February 2009, I anticipated being in the hospital, an epidural in my spine. In January 2009, I wept as we drove to our midwifery practice for a “Home Birth Information Night.”  It was [...]

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Following the Principles: Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting

June 18, 2009

Part 1 of a series of 8. “Look at this,” I mumble out of the corner of my mouth as I shove the white and purple plastic stick in Sir Hubby’s direction. The two younger kids are nearby and it is too soon to clue them in yet. “Uh. What exactly am I looking at?” [...]

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Soon they are best friends (Part 4 in a series on having baby #2)

June 15, 2009

This is the fourth and last post in a series on preparing for a second baby. If you haven’t read them already, check out the first part What on Earth Were We Thinking? and the second part To tandem or not to tandem, and third part Move over: making room for one more in the [...]

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