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Should I Sleep With My Baby?

Should I Sleep With My Baby?
How can families who breastfeed get the most sleep every night? And protect their precious baby from harm, while doing so?

Soon after beginning breastfeeding, nearly every breastfeeding parent has fallen asleep while breastfeeding, without regard to safety. The stark warnings against sleeping with your baby, fade into a haze of exhaustion. It is a dangerous way of dealing with a life and death problem, that has a fairly easy solution. Setting up a safe sleep environment for your whole family, including your baby, is easy.

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How Long Are You Going to Nurse That Baby?

How Long Are You Going to Nurse That Baby?

Many mothers know the answer to this question before their baby is even born. "A year" "6 months" "Until I go back to work" "If I like it" "Until my baby is 4" It's a question with many answers. Breastfeeding is feeding and so much more. Babies also nurse because they are tired, overwhelmed, lonely, thirsty, sick, in pain, bored, cold, hot, or 89 other reasons. Nursing at a mother's breast stimulates or calms all the senses. It creates and completes a safe habitat for a baby. The obvious answer if you are a baby is "As long as I...

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Grieving & Mothering

Grieving & Mothering
“Mom, this card says ‘Don’t worry about Nancy anymore,’” Ember says, as she hands me a sticky note she scribbled on. I wipe away a drifting tear, and take it from her. “Thanks, sweetie. Why shouldn’t I worry anymore?” I want to know what is happening in her mind, partly because I’m feeling guilty.

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anxiety, breastfeeding, communication, emotions, empathy, expectations, guilt, Jasmine Wood, love, newbabynewpaltzblog, Rita, separation, summer, transitions, traveling, worry -

How Can I Leave My Baby? A New Mother’s Journey with Separation Anxiety

How Can I Leave My Baby? A New Mother’s Journey with Separation Anxiety
“Would we be able to enjoy ourselves at the concert if our minds were elsewhere thinking about our baby and her well being?” An answer that could not be determined…For 6 months leading up to the concerts, July 4th weekend, I had mini panic attacks filled with separation anxiety at the mere thought of leaving little Rita.

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communication, compassion, Ember, imperfection, language, Lisa Bullard, mommy brain, mothering, newbabynewpaltzblog, toddler -

Learning A Language

Learning A Language

On a more mundane note, my thoughts have been scattered for, oh, about 17 months now . . .

I’m bringing this up because I just couldn’t figure out what to write for the newsletter and I realized it was because this is what was going on...

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