Is it really fair–and even honest–for infant formula companies to label their products as “closest to breastmilk” when there’s no such thing? Read this article from this week’s Guardian, and give the issue a think.
Oh, on the same subject (milk!), a point made in the Philadelphia Inquirer about breastfeeding, and those cute little (very, very [...]

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I really like how now the American public can rely on the good ol’ television set to teach their children everything they need to know. Now, in addition to the squeaky CTW franchises and the sugar-coated cartoons on Nickelodeon, we have a channel specifically geared to babies called BabyFirstTV. With 24/7 programming that [...]

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Life BB (Before Babies) was in a lot of ways very different.
For instance, we could leave the house on a moment’s notice. We could stay up past bedtime on a school night (well, I could, Matt couldn’t). We didn’t need to plan our day around an afternoon nap. We didn’t need to [...]

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Cosleeping with a babe makes news . . .but what about two? And when is somebody going to make something bigger than a king size? They can call it Gigundo Size. We need it. With Carmen’s sideways sleeping, David’s flopping, and me between the two, there’s not much room left for [...]

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An article from the Washington Post: Out of the Woods.
I remember making dinosaur tracks in the front yard one day. An ice cream man (actually, he really sold paletas) drove up and asked, “Hey, do you want this [watermelon paleta]. I responded yes and he said, “Here, tell your parents [...]

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Oxytocin Makes Mamas Mean. Tee hee hee.

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Whew. We’re not as weird as we thought. (An article about elimination communication from the Boston Globe.)

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