by Stacey
Ahem. I, um, found the post I lost. (See below) I’m no techno wizard. This we know. Here it is…
To be a vegetarian or not to be a vegetarian? That has been an ongoing question throughout my adult life. On the wagon, off the wagon, hanging onto the back of the wagon with a […]

by Stacey
Just in time for this Mother’s Day comes a book that many of us I’m sure will find very useful. According to this article in Newsweek, a Florida plastic surgeon named Michael Salzhauer has penned a book called “My Beautiful Mommy.” It features a perky mother explaining to her child why she’s having […]

by Stacey
So I’m thinking it’s time to review the deal with The Open Post. I started this a while back to give you guys a chance to take over the podium and talk about whatever you want to talk about. It could be an article you read recently that relates to parenting or something that’s […]

by Stacey
A new study released earlier this month shows that breastfeeding can raise intelligence by an average of nearly seven IQ points if the child has a particular version of a gene called FADS2. Thanks to this article in Slate for the tip. The study involved more than 3,000 children in Britain and New […]

by Stacey
Nearly 13 percent of parents in the U.S. practiced co-sleeping with their children in 2000 up from 5.5. percent in 1993, according to a series of studies on co-sleeping published in the August issue of the journal Infant and Child Development. And according to this article in the NY Times, the current number […]

by Stacey
I won’t lie to you. Sometimes I catch a glimpse of myself undressed in the mirror and think, “Whoa, what happened to you, missy?” My curves used to be mostly in the right places. Now they’re all over the lot. Some in the front when they should be on the side, some near the […]

by Stacey
My little baby Sasha is off to a bad start. Back in June there was a study showing second-born boys have lower IQ’s than their older brothers presumably because their parents have more time to read aloud and talk in intelligible sentences when there is only one kid around. Now I find out that […]

by Stacey
Last week I read numerous blog posts skewering Bill Maher for criticizing women who breastfeed their babies in public. On his show Real Time with Bill Maher, he said the following:
Look, there’s no principle at work here other than being too lazy to either plan ahead or cover up. It’s not fighting for a […]

by Stacey
Two recent research reviews found that women who have a doula, midwife, or supportive family member with them during labor are more likely to have a shorter labor, less likely to use pain medication, and feel more satisfaction with their birth experience than women who receive regular hospital care. In addition, women who […]

by kristin
last weekend, i went to a party and had some extra drinks. i came home late after the girls were asleep, expecting to fall into bed. lily unexpectedly woke up so i went to check on her.  i told her i couldn’t nurse because my milk wasn’t good for her right then […]