Baby Food

I’m old fashioned, but I think the only way to feed a baby is to nurse.  Cows milk is for cows and human milk is for humans.  I do realize there are cases when you can nurse, needing to take certain meds, inability to produce milk and a lot more.  But, even dumber, is beginning [...]

Time to play

I think kids should be kids, not computer IT wizards by the time they are 3.  Some of the mom’s I know have every educational toy every made, I guess hoping to have and Einstein or something,  Why can’t they just be little kids.  It’s like Christmas you buy a gazillion toys and the baby [...]

Kid Time

My kids are so lucky.  They got a step-father who loves them very much.  He never had kids, nor did he want them.  Actually, we found he just didn’t like dirty diapers and crying continually.  He came when my youngest was 5, and lo and behold, my new husband was also that same mental age [...]

Winter

It’s almost October and that’s when I start freaking out.  I love summer and shorts and sun and swim suits.  I don’t like cold or coats or sweaters.  I’m trying to find a place to live that’s warm all the time but not humid.  If I never see another pine tree I’ll be just fine.
At [...]

The Dreaded 2 am Feeding

Did you nurse?  If you did you had at least 1 or 30 2 am feedings.  I felt sorry for the men – I didn’t want to get up.  But getting up and holding my baby, just me and him in a blanket all warm and everything quiet was some of the best times of [...]

Affection

Basically, humans need human touch and affection even more than they do air.  Their are so many studies a bout babies from orphanages that were so full they rarely got held or shown any attention.  Many, many died and many became retarded.
I think that’s the basis of the needs of all of us.  Especially marriages. [...]

MADD

I went to a MADD (Mothers against Drunk Drivers) and was fairly supprised by their attitude.  I thought they would be throw backs from prohibition, but they are very open minded.  They don’t care about the drinking – they just want us to stay off the street and out of the car if we do [...]

Labor is the easy part

I remember begin scared to death about the upcoming birth process.  Everybody had their own horror story about hours, pain, delivery and on and on.  Each worse than the last.
I’ll be the first to tell you it’s not a walk in the part.  But I also know the only way out is through.  Plus, it [...]

Sleeping

The scientist say that a full night sleep to a baby is 5 hours.  I have a hard time with 9 sometimes.  But they consider this sleeping through the night for newborns up to about 6 months.  In fact some babies don’t actually sleep through the night, in the normal sense, until they are 1 [...]

Aunts

When I had my first son my sister in law drove me nuts.  She was 25 and her biological clock was almost gone?  I had to tear my son away just to nurse him.  I like babies, but jeeze.
The good news is she finally got married and now has 3 boys of her own – [...]

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