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A year of endings.

January 1, 2013
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A year of endings.

Since everyone else is doing it, I guess I’ll jump on the bandwagon too. You guessed it, this is my “Year in Review” and also my Birthday post rolled into one. Oh, don’t worry, I wont recant all of my previous posts from this past year for you, that’s what that handy dandy “Archives” button is for over there to your right and part way down the page. Click on it, choose a month and peruse at your leisure, I promise you, some of those posts were really, really good! If we back up 365 days, turning 40 on this day last year was not as traumatic as I expected. I was with the three people I love the most in the world. I was spoiled with everything I asked for and more and it was a beautiful sunny winter day. It was perfection. I had also made up...

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I have hair growing in weird places

September 24, 2012
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I have hair growing in weird places

I feel like I need to explain some things. As I look back at the last few weeks of posts, I realize that all of them are rather self-centred. I have not written a babywearing post since the one I wrote about why I don’t do ‘forward facing out’ went semi-viral (in my world that is) or a breastfeeding post since my journey, (Oh hell, let’s call a spade a spade. At this point, 5 years, 9 months and 12 days, I think it is more of a breastfeeding odyssey), is finally coming to an end. This past week I attended a wonderful Modern Mama event in our city called Mama Blogs. The expert panel consisted of Tanis Miller from Attack of the Redneck Mommy, Jennifer Banks from Techmommy and Make Jen’s Day, Felicia Dewar from Single Mom of Two and Jenifer Shaefer of City and Baby fame.  These...

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Feminism.. you are doing it all wrong!

August 7, 2012
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Feminism.. you are doing it all wrong!

I am one confused woman… and mother… and, dare I say it… feminist. And I apologize ahead of time if this post goes a bit all over the place {see statement above} and if I am about three months late on this band wagon! . I have been trying for the past week or so to read Elizabeth Badinter’s book, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women. And I just can’t do it anymore. It is hurting my head and my heart and my very soul reading her words. And it is doing so on so many levels. It hurts me because of her blatantly condescending attitude about pretty much everything that I value, hold dear and practice as an attachment parent mother. It hurts me because of her “look how wonderful WE the French women are at everything we do”. From having the highest birth...

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A letter to my daughter.

August 7, 2012
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A letter to my daughter.

My dearest L, We’ve started talking about it. About you growing up and getting to be a big girl now. I see you taking so many steps and leaps into life that only a few short months ago, I know would have been impossible for you to navigate. Today, I dropped you off for your first ever day of summer camp and I was SO worried. I was worried that you would not want to participate. That you would not let me leave you there with your camp leaders for the few hours of fun and learning. But I was wrong. You put that bike helmet on, told your Bike Camp instructor your name and with a big smile and a wave back at me, took off with the rest of the kids. I stuck around for a bit, just to make sure you settled in OK {and to...

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Nothing in life is ever really ‘FREE’

August 4, 2012
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Nothing in life is ever really ‘FREE’

I am confused. And I don’t want to add fuel to the fire of the ridiculous and never ending how you feed your baby Mommy Wars, but I am serious. I am really confused. New Your City has a new initiative called “Latch On NYC”. It is aimed at promoting breastfeeding in the city’s many hospitals. In order to do this, the plan is to limit access to “free” formula samples and any advertising and marketing materials from the formula companies that are distributed to new mothers and their babies in the first few hours and days after birth. And there is a lot of hulabaloo about it all over the interwebs this week. Especially because it is World Breastfeeding Week. A lot of people are quite upset about it and like in this article from Cafe Mom think that this is removing a woman’s choice in how she...

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World Breastfeeding Week: Reason #576…

August 3, 2012
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World Breastfeeding Week: Reason #576…

…that {extended} breastfeeding works for us. Instant comfort for little Miss L after her first wipeout on her new bike. Before:   After: It is always more than just food. Especially now. To find out more about World Breastfeeding Week 2012, please check out the site HERE. Now what about you? How has breastfeeding made parenting easier for you {and your babies}? Natasha~     ——————– This is Day Three of the #31Days of Summer Blogging, AKA the Summer Blog Challenge.  Check out the contributions of our other participants today. April starts her alphabet-inspired posts over at This Mom’s Got Something to Say. Meaghan is the daughter of a cop… and is thankful for the job they all do for US at  MagzD Life. Zita is probably still writing… check her post out soon at The Dulock Diaries. And Liam is trying to recruit more suckas to do this crazy...

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I’m Sexy and I know it….

August 1, 2012
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I’m Sexy and I know it….

I have big boobs. It’s true. They kinda popped out the summer between Grade 8 and Grade 9. Like REALLY popped out! And boys, men and some women too have been staring at them, talking about them, and trying to {and the privileged few getting to} touch them ever since! I have know of the power of my boobs for a long time and yes, I was and am kind of obsessed with them. {Seriously, ask my friends, I really do love my girls!} I spare no expense when it comes to housing them in the finest European bras (the ones that actually fit a gal with a 32 E bra size) and I highly recommend that all women go and get a proper bra fitting and a proper bra (I thought I was a 36 C before that!). None of this, buy 2 get 1 free {insert mall...

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{breastfeeding} Ignorance is not bliss.

May 24, 2012
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{breastfeeding} Ignorance is not bliss.

I have been good. Really. I have. No ranting, no attacking, no blood boiling posts written in haste. I have applied the way more than 72 hours rule here and I feel like I can now reply to the whole TIME magazine cover photo and extended breastfeeding ridiculousness with somewhat of a level head. But here is the thing… I am not going to go on and on about the benefits of extended breastfeeding. You can read THIS or THIS for more on that. I am not going to go on and on about why that particular photo of Jamie Lynn Grumet and her son was chosen for the most shock value on the cover of TIME. You can read Jamie’s own words HERE. I am not going to go on and on about what attachment parenting is and is not and if I or anyone else is MOM...

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Confessions of a lazy breastfeeder.

April 24, 2012
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Confessions of a lazy breastfeeder.

I have something to confess. I am a lazy, lazy breastfeeding mama. Case in point. My three and a half-year old daughter still nurses at night. Which means 2-3 times a night she gets out of her bed, walks to our room, crawls in to bed with me and nurses for anywhere from 1 minute to 30 minutes depending on how sleepy I am. And since I am usually quite sleepy, it’s closer to the half hour mark than not. I know she doesn’t “need” to nurse at this time, I know I “should” have night-weaned her months/years ago, but I didn’t. Oh, I have tried, more than a few times, really I have, but two happy sleeping people always seemed to be more important to me than one crying and then fitfully sleeping baby and one miserable mama. I am also quite the lazy breastfeeder in other ways....

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Not evil, just corporations and marketing 101.

March 17, 2012
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I feel the need to also publish this post tonight. I wrote this at the same time as I did my previous post, but they needed separating in order for my thoughts on both to be clear and concise (and to make sense to me!). My friend who wrote about the “heart” vs “brain” conversations when it comes to breastfeeding or not, also brought up something that I feel I need to explore in a bit more detail. She said in her post that: …groups that appear extremist seldom accomplish much beyond polarizing the already divided public and swaying public opinion away from their original goals. I think the breastfeeding “movement” falls victim to this, getting labeled by the crazy behaviours of a smaller subsection of our population.  This makes us feel sad and defeated, and we react from that emotional place as opposed to regrouping and considering more...

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