Organic Baby Atlanta
You don't have to be a hippie mom to raise your baby green
how organic is your birth control?
In the immediate postpartum period, birth control is easy. Almost too easy. I've discovered the perfect method: simple, cheap, and 100% effective. It's called abstinence. Because no woman wants to have sex immediately after giving birth. And usually not for some time...
5 baby sleep mistakes you don’t know you’re making
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...
which type of postpartum body do you have? (and tips for getting a healthy one)
Don't you hate women who look gorgeous postpartum? Okay, maybe hate is the wrong word. I don't hate you. Really. I envy you. Actually, I might hate you. Especially if you claim that some simple activity, like running after your toddler, breastfeeding, or cleaning...
have you changed your baby’s diaper lately?
More specifically, have you changed him into a cloth diaper lately? Last Saturday, 61 babies had their diapers changed -- into cloth diapers -- all at the same time. That's 61 babies in Atlanta. The worldwide numbers haven't come in yet, but since there were over 300...
great cloth diaper change tomorrow
Last year, I helped organize the Great Cloth Diaper Change event. I couldn't participate, since I didn't have a baby in diapers, but I had to be involved somehow. So I helped with some of the administrative stuff, including finding a location for the event. And I have...
nursing at keyboard
NAK. It's an acronym I see a lot on natural parenting forums. It stands for "Nursing At Keyboard." In other words, multitasking. Nursing while typing, and possibly also eating lunch, chatting on Facebook, and doing an art project with your older kid. Getting stuff...
what not to say to parents
There are a lot of lists out there of things not to say to specific types of parents. But there are quite a few things that people commonly say that you should never say to any parent. Because we're all in the same boat here. I should give a disclaimer: this isn't...
giveaway: Annie’s organic pizza
I have a confession to make. I like pizza. It's not healthy, and it's not (usually) organic. But it's easy. And I like easy, because I am not good at cooking. Pizza is definitely not something I would want to eat every day. But on the weekends, or after a day when I...
what a mom really wants
Today is my birthday. So naturally, last night my husband asked me what I wanted for my birthday. (It truly doesn't bother me that he asks me this at 10 pm the night before. We never do anything for each other's birthdays, and neither of us cares. I always come up...
baby clothes sizes need to be standardized
Yesterday my daughter and I were going through her old clothes so we can stop storing them because I'm sick of storing them. And our house has no storage space. So we were sorting them into clothes to donate, clothes to consign, and just a handful of clothes to keep...
free lunches winner
Congratulations to Maria D, who won the five free lunches from Bees Knees Organics! I am so excited to have hosted this giveaway...and I have a lot more coming. But for now, this week is spring break, which means my daughter is not in preschool, which means I won't...
cloth diapers: collectibles?
I thought I had a problem with cloth diapers. I thought I was a cloth diaper addict. I thought I was serious about buying fancy, beautiful cloth diapers. Then I saw this. In case you don't feel like clicking through (or if the auction has ended and you can't see it...
when bad deeds go unpunished
The other day in a forum that I visit occasionally, a mom posted a question about discipline. She was having trouble figuring out how to handle bad behavior in her highly sensitive son. She wrote in the forum "I know this behavior can't go unpunished." Which started...
what to do with your old cloth diapers
Is there such thing as a cloth diaper you don't want anymore? I know for me, it's hard to get rid of cloth diapers. Okay, so the truth is that I've never done it. Despite the fact that I know I can get anywhere from 50-75% of the price of new diapers for my used...
forget about pink slime: win a healthy, organic, free lunch!
A few weeks ago, I was talking to a neighbor about preschool lunches. The topic came up because I had come home to get my daughter's lunch and bring it back to school, because I'd forgotten it. Again. This happens to me all the time. "You wouldn't think bringing lunch...
sneaky healthy food for a picky eater
Like many preschoolers, my daughter is a picky eater. For some reason I always thought that my excellent feeding choices when she was a baby would result in a child who loved healthy food. And preferably exotic food. I imagined that because her first foods were...
why you should breastfeed
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...
Friday reading
I am working on an amazing and long post about breastfeeding and judgement and intuition and being a mom. I wanted to post it today, but my daughter doesn't have preschool (why do we not have preschool today, again? I have no idea. Is today a holiday I don't know...