by lcbaker | Feb 3, 2012 | Breastfeeding, Featured
If you’re on Facebook and you follow any of the natural parenting groups there, you’ve probably heard about the breastfeeding pictures problem. The issue has to do with Facebook removing pictures of breastfeeding mothers as “sexually explicit...
by lcbaker | Jan 20, 2012 | Natural Parenting
One nice thing about having a second baby is that you get to use all your tricks from the beginning. This is particularly useful since a lot of these tricks work best in the newborn stage. It’s kind of nice starting with a full quiver from the get-go, so to...
by lcbaker | Jan 18, 2012 | Natural Parenting, Sleep
I heard a friend say recently that second babies are born to make fools of Mama. I wouldn’t say that Teddy is making a fool of me–Anastasia pretty much has that covered–but he certainly is showing me how different babies can be. If I hadn’t...
by lcbaker | Jan 16, 2012 | Breastfeeding
It’s the end of the world in the Baker household: my baby’s diaper rash came back. And it’s ugly. I’m still not sure if it’s really yeast, but I have a feeling it is. There are these bright red spots that just seem like something more...
by lcbaker | Jan 11, 2012 | Breastfeeding
You may remember back during World Breastfeeding Week I wrote a post about how I used to think breastfeeding was gross. Which is hilarious if you know me, because now I talk about all the time and do it everywhere without a cover or any real attempt at discretion,...
by lcbaker | Jan 6, 2012 | Cloth Diapers, Elimination Communication, Sleep
Teddy is two weeks old today, and he has a diaper rash. And I don’t mean to sound like a high-maintenance over-worried first-time mom or anything, but to me, this is a disaster of massive proportions. There are several reasons. One, Anastasia never had a diaper...