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CARES travel system

June 18, 2010

It is sum­mer, which means travel time in our home. In the past, we have flown with our car seat and go-go-kidz, which I still love and lend out to my friends quite fre­quently. Now that The Boy (TB) is get­ting big­ger, how­ever, I decided to invest in acar seat cover and CARES sys­tem. I […]

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Hand Expression

August 26, 2009

Orig­i­nally pub­lished on A Piece of My Mind. I men­tioned yes­ter­day that I use hand expres­sion at times. I first learned how to do this when I wanted to increase my sup­ply because I found out that breast compressions/massage cou­pled with my pump could increase out­put. I noticed a sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ence between when I did […]

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Pumping

August 24, 2009

Orig­i­nally posted on A Piece of My Mind. Pump­ing. I am not sure why I have not really blogged about pump­ing. Obvi­ously I did pump and hand express (tomorrow’s topic) or I would not have made it through over two years of nurs­ing while work­ing out­side the home with The Boy in day­care. I think […]

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Breastfeeding in Italy with a Toddler

August 18, 2009

I started this post after we returned from Italy in March 2009, but I never fin­ished it. What bet­ter time to do so than now? Before we left for Milan, I was a bit anx­ious about nurs­ing a tod­dler on the flights and abroad.  I was used to how nurs­ing a two year old was seen […]

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Time change and a toddler

March 30, 2009

Dif­fer­ent peo­ple han­dle the time change with a tod­dler dif­fer­ently. Before we left for Milan, I checked my sleep books and then the inter­net look­ing for infor­ma­tion jet lag. I was con­cerned how he would react, and the only site I found with any infor­ma­tion I could agree remotely with was Deli­cious Baby.  How­ever, because […]

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Beco Butterfly II

March 25, 2009

When I first wrote a post on baby-wearing, I did not yet own a Beco car­rier, but I thought at some point I would like to have one for travel, so my mei tai ties would not be drag­ging on the ground while I was roam­ing the streets of Europe. The day finally came– a […]

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What's in My Carry-On?

March 22, 2009

A series of recent flights has caused me to eval­u­ate and re-evaluate what I have been pack­ing in my carry-on bag. The Boy is now two and some of the items that used to occupy space are no longer needed, while we dis­cov­ered the need for some new items. I thought I would share a […]

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Magic Nuudles

March 19, 2009

On a recent trip to Min­nesota, my step-mom bought The Boy a new toy to pass some time. Magic Nuu­dles look like sty­ro­foam, but they are made of corn­starch. You sim­ply wet the “nuu­dle” with a damp cloth, and they stick together and to other objects.  Once you are done play­ing with the nud­dles, simply […]

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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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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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