April 30th, 2012 
lcbaker 
Sleeping through the night. It’s the ultimate goal of the early parenting years, the Holy Grail of baby experts. The road to a full nights’ sleep is a mountain you climb, armed with swaddling blankets, pacifiers, and coffee, until at last you reach the top and get to experience an uninterrupted REM cycle. And then you [...]
March 19th, 2012 lcbaker 
The title of this post is misleading. I’m not going to preach at you–chances are someone has already done that. Nor am I going to list all the health benefits of breastfeeding–I know plenty of people have done that. Actually, I’m going to tell you why I think it’s totally fine if you don’t breastfeed. [...]
February 29th, 2012 lcbaker 
Okay, okay. I already admitted that I’m addicted to cloth diapers. They’re just so darn cute. And soft. And fuzzy. And–oh, I know it’s ridiculous. They’re supposed to be for holding poop. Blame it on elimination communication that I can’t think of them as anything but the cutest styles of baby clothes. But back to [...]
February 22nd, 2012 lcbaker 
Last night, my wonderful sleeping newborn, who has slept so well since he was born, decided to sleep like a baby instead. Darn newborn sleep. Anyway, he was awake and crying from 2 am to 4 am. Lovely. I know this because I’m tracking his sleep patterns, on the off chance that a pattern will [...]
February 10th, 2012 lcbaker 
My name is Lisa, and I’m a cloth diaper addict. I don’t know when it started, but it’s been going on for a while. It was sometime around the birth of my first child–before she was born, I thought diapers were gross, even cloth ones. I remember being disgusted by the idea of buying used [...]
February 3rd, 2012 lcbaker 
If you’re on Facebook and you follow any of the natural parenting groups there, you’ve probably heard about the breastfeeding pictures problem. The issue has to do with Facebook removing pictures of breastfeeding mothers as “sexually explicit content.” Some moms have had their accounts flagged or shut down–even though Facebook’s official policy states that breastfeeding [...]
January 3rd, 2012 lcbaker 
Let me start with a disclaimer. If you spend your entire pregnancy telling everyone that you love labor, that it’s your favorite part of having a baby, and that you can’t wait to do it again, well–you’re setting yourself up. And if it’s true that your first labor was that much fun, then you can [...]
December 14th, 2011 lcbaker 
Recently my mother started worrying about my blood pressure. I suppose it’s her job to worry when I’m pregnant. She asked my husband whether my midwife takes my blood pressure at prenatal visits. My husband, who hasn’t come to any prenatal visits this pregnancy, replied that he didn’t know. I was annoyed when he related [...]
December 2nd, 2011 lcbaker 
Warning: This post contains pregnancy hormones, irritability, sarcasm, and general rudeness. Don’t like it? Don’t read it. In fact, if you’re not pregnant and have never been pregnant, maybe you shouldn’t read this. This is another hormonal pregnant post. So if it comes across as rude, well, I’m sorry. If you’ve said one of these [...]
November 10th, 2011 lcbaker 
Recently I’ve had several conversations with moms of newborns that made me think how little any of us realize what it’s actually like to breastfeed a newborn. I think this is true whether you’ve had a baby before or not. Forgetting what it’s like to nurse a newborn is kind of like forgetting what it [...]
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