by lcbaker | Apr 30, 2012 | Featured, Sleep
Sleeping through the night. It’s the ultimate goal of the early parenting years, the Holy Grail of baby experts. The road to a full nights’ sleep is a mountain you climb, armed with swaddling blankets, pacifiers, and coffee, until at last you reach the top...
by lcbaker | Apr 25, 2012 | Healthy Food, Pregnancy and Birth
Don’t you hate women who look gorgeous postpartum? Okay, maybe hate is the wrong word. I don’t hate you. Really. I envy you. Actually, I might hate you. Especially if you claim that some simple activity, like running after your toddler, breastfeeding, or...
by lcbaker | Apr 18, 2012 | Natural Parenting
NAK. It’s an acronym I see a lot on natural parenting forums. It stands for “Nursing At Keyboard.” In other words, multitasking. Nursing while typing, and possibly also eating lunch, chatting on Facebook, and doing an art project with your older kid....
by lcbaker | Apr 11, 2012 | Natural Parenting
Today is my birthday. So naturally, last night my husband asked me what I wanted for my birthday. (It truly doesn’t bother me that he asks me this at 10 pm the night before. We never do anything for each other’s birthdays, and neither of us cares. I always...
by lcbaker | Mar 28, 2012 | Natural Parenting
The other day in a forum that I visit occasionally, a mom posted a question about discipline. She was having trouble figuring out how to handle bad behavior in her highly sensitive son. She wrote in the forum “I know this behavior can’t go...
by lcbaker | Mar 19, 2012 | Breastfeeding, Featured
The title of this post is misleading. I’m not going to preach at you–chances are someone has already done that. Nor am I going to list all the health benefits of breastfeeding–I know plenty of people have done that. Actually, I’m going to tell...
