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How to Calm Your Crying Baby
By Elizabeth Pantley, author of Gentle Baby Care When we’re pregnant or awaiting adoption, we dream about our baby-to-be, we always envision those beautiful Hallmark card scenes: charming baby smiling...
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Being with Babies
Today, my girls and I met my husband and our boys at their group campsite out in the country to drop off a first aid kit he’d forgotten. As my husband and I walked up to the mess tent, one very nice...
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How to Thwart Tantrums with ESP
The Sarasota chapter of the Holistic Moms Network recently hosted a great meeting on tantrums called Turning Tantrums into Teachable Moments. Our featured guest speaker was Diane Weiss of Parenting...
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”Natural childbirth isn’t when you do nothing to prepare for the birth; on the contrary, it only happens when you do many things to prepare.” ~ Dawn Freeman “I usually claim that pregnant women should...
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How To Clean Your Cloth Diapers
I’m happy to share this guest post by Tessa Smith of www.bippydiapers.com as this is also one of the most common questions I hear about cloth diapering. Some of the main questions we always get are:...
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A Letter to Family & Friends about Welcoming A New Baby
This is a sample letter to family and friends who will have contact with an older sibling in the days following the birth of a new baby. This letter was designed to share with them the parents’...
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Hidden Dangers in Baby Clothes
Looking through the free clothes basket at a local birth center, I picked up a cute little outfit for my new baby… it was nice and soft, 100% certified organic cotton, Made in the USA, clean. So I...
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Make Mealtime Fun for Your Picky Eater
When I was in the process of introducing my fourth child to foods for the first time, she was not buying it. At eight months, she was still resistant to putting most foods in her mouth and preferred to...
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How We Talk About Measles and Vaccines
Surely I cannot be the only one profoundly saddened by the blaming, shaming, name-calling, ridicule, anger, fear-mongering and outright aggression being shared recently on blogs, in news articles and...
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Please! Don’t share these photos of your kids online!
One of the many awesome things about being a doula is that I get to see a lot of wonderful photos and even videos of kids on my Facebook newsfeed. Playing, sleeping, exploring, nursing, laughing…....
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