From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Breastfeeding After Reduction Surgery - 19 months and counting

February 27, 2009

I wrote before about my breast reduc­tion and the first year of breast­feed­ing my son, now I thought I’d give you an update on how it’s going.  I’d planned to do an 18 months and count­ing update, but life got in the way, and here we are at 19 months and still going strong in […]

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Green Toys

February 21, 2009

Green Toys is a San Fran­cisco com­pany that pro­duces Made in the USA (Cal­i­for­nia to be exact) toys. The com­pany uses recy­cled plas­tic from milk jugs for their prod­ucts. Green Toys’ web­site also states: Our prod­ucts pass a plethora of tests, includ­ing: Con­sumer Safety Improve­ment Act (CPSIA) Con­sumer Prod­ucts Safety Stan­dard Spec­i­fi­ca­tion, ASTM F963 Cal­i­for­nia Prop. […]

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Finding an acceptable balance bike

February 16, 2009

Bal­ance bikes are very pop­u­lar in Europe and I’ve read that they’re start­ing to catch on in North Amer­ica now as well.  They’re great because kids learn to bal­ance on the bike with­out hav­ing to worry about learn­ing to pedal at the same time, let­ting them bike at an ear­lier age (2 years old is […]

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HABA Toy Food

February 12, 2009

I’ve always loved toy shop­ping, even before I had a child. Choos­ing gifts for nieces and nephews and think­ing about what I would have loved (or what I DID love) at their ages gave me a thrill. And I know wasn’t the only adult wish­ing I could spend an after­noon play­ing with that Bar­bie Corvette […]

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How to make a regular bra into a nursing bra

February 7, 2009

Have you had dif­fi­culty find­ing a nurs­ing bra that fits or that fits into your bud­get? Here is a guest post from Janda, a friend of mine who is a seam­stress.  After being frus­trated with not find­ing a sin­gle nurs­ing bra that fit me well (I went through dozens and not all were return­able), I […]

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Eco-paint

February 5, 2009

I loved Eco-dough, so try­ing Eco-kids eco-fingerpaint ($20 per tube) seemed like a nat­ural pro­gres­sion.  Eco-fingerpaint is made of all nat­ural ingre­di­ents.  The pow­der arrives in a tube like eco-dough and con­tains addi­tional small dishes to mix the paint in.  The tube and tubs are com­postable. Unfor­tu­nately, the lids fell off dur­ing ship­ping, so some […]

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Book Review: Punished by Rewards

February 4, 2009

While brows­ing in a book­store back in the US last Novem­ber, I came upon the book Pun­ished By Rewards: The Trou­ble with Gold Stars, Incen­tive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn.  It sounded pretty inter­est­ing so I pur­chased it and pretty much devoured it.  Before writ­ing a review, I fig­ured I better […]

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