First, it was my mom’s birthday. Happy birthday, mom! She is a great mom, and I appreciate every decision she’s ever made for me and my sister. I appreciate those decisions like I never did before I had my own children!
Don’t worry, I made her cupcakes and took her miniature golfing, but that was in [...]
Along with several new moms (new to our group, that is) and a sizable gathering of really wonderful moms and babies that were a joy to be around, we had a guest speaker today who discussed the important of infant reflexes, and their lifelong repercussions. Myra Moyryla explained how she determines whether a specific reflex [...]
We discussed how to make sure our weekly meetings were friendly to toddlers and big kids and their mothers, as well as babies. We realized that there had been an expectation that the children stay (relatively) quiet, and remain in the part of the room with the toys, so that the mothers and babies in [...]
Instead of our usual format, our moms circle invited a guest speaker today. Doctor Holly Johantgen is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, an Acupuncture Physician and a Primary Care Physician in Clearwater Florida, as well as a mother of two young children. She fielded questions about vaccines, and we snuck some other questions in, too, [...]
Today I helped Amanda and Julie get their babies on their backs in double hammock carries, and helped Dana’s cousin wrap her itty bitty up in her Moby.
In conversations we addressed topics as varying as coping with potential medical problems (and the question of trusting doctors), to boundaries in the physical relationship of parents and [...]
At our Moms Circle today, we decided to form a mothering co-op. We’ll start next week at my house. Tuesday, 6 July 2010, I’m opening up my house at 9am for a playdate in which some of the moms will stay and hang out, and some moms will drop off their babies/kids and go take [...]
Evelyn began our discussion today with an admonition that we are here to support each other, and not to nitpick the particulars of our parenting choices. We are better mothers when we are emotionally (and physically) available to our children. As the mother, we are often wholly responsible for our children all the time, without [...]
In wrapping news, Lindsay got a water wrap, Julie’s going to buy Lindsay’s Christiane EllaRoo, Ainsley and Evan are deciding which Bali Baby Breeze to get, Anna bought my Earthy Rainbow Girasol, I bought Tina’s mystery organic wrap, and Tina’s going to sell her short EllaRoo and buy a Bali Baby Breeze. Wow!
Amanda’s son’s little [...]
Last night Barefoot Birth hosted a Night of Babywearing at the Labor of Love birth center in Lakeland, Florida. I was late, and missed the other carriers being played with, but I brought my big basket of wraps for everyone to play with and Annabelle helped me show the people what we do with them.
It’s [...]
A lot of our questions overlapped today, which is handy for fitting everything in. Tina and Ainsley wanted to know about discipline for their older girls, and how to handle behavior that seems inappropriate without behaving inappropriately themselves . . .
. . . and, how to answer family members who tell us we’re doing it [...]
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