Second Sickness
Poor Sugarplum is on day 3 of a full blown cold. She started the first day with a stuffy nose and slight fever (around 99) day 2 she added a pretty intense cough and today …
Category: Baby Business
ABCs of Baby Sleep
My ABS of putting a baby to sleep: Aroma: Place something with a familiar smell near baby. Something that smells like mom or dad or a favorite cuddle item that smells familiar to baby is …
Succumbing to Sleep
Napping has become increasing difficult with Doodle. As a newbie he used to peacefully fall asleep while nursing and then I could usually gently move him somewhere to complete his sleep. Now, however, even if …
Feeding the Family
Honeybun is completing her 7th week of kindergarten and I’m in my 5th week of my fall teaching schedule. I am now teaching three nights a week and Saturday mornings. The new schedule (in addition to …
Slingin’ It
When I was pregnant with Honeybun and taking a hypnobirthing class at a local women’s wellness center, I saw ring slings for sale in the center’s gift shop. I thought they were a great idea …
Babies by the Numbers
There has been somewhat of a baby boom in my life. I started noticing last fall when I was beginning the journey of my 3rd pregnancy that I had knew a lot of other people …
Bettering Birth
I strongly believe in a woman’s right to choose. I’m not talking about abortion or contraception (though I do have my opinions on those too), the right I am talking about is the right to …
A Birth Remembered
A blast from the past: I wrote this 4 years ago almost to the day about my birth experience with Honeybun. I’ve been working on a similar post since I started Beyond Mommying 9 months …
Talking Teeth
This week was the monthly meeting of my local breastfeeding support group. This month we had a local family dentist talk about dental health for breastfed babies. It was a great meeting with a lot …