Our Weaning Story

March 16, 2010

I thought for my 26-week preg­nancy update, I’d tell the story of how, because of hyper­eme­sis gravi­darum, Oliver and I ended our breast­feed­ing rela­tion­ship. While much of the first six months of breast­feed­ing Oliver was spent try­ing to make it week to week, I always had the WHO guide­line of breast­feed­ing for at least two […]

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Struggling with Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG): Week 23 Update

February 18, 2010

Yes­ter­day, I hit 23 weeks preg­nant.  Just over halfway.  For most of that 23 weeks, I’ve been suf­fer­ing from the exces­sive nau­sea and vom­it­ing that goes along with Hyper­eme­sis Gravi­darum, or HG. It doesn’t feel pos­si­ble that I’m only half way through.  It feels like this preg­nancy has lasted for­ever.  This has eas­ily been the […]

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What's your mothering style?

January 29, 2010

An old friend of mine just sent a link around to this Moth­er­Styles quiz and I found it really inter­est­ing. It’s a Myers-Briggs type quiz ana­lyz­ing your mothering/parenting style.  Turns out I’m an INTP mom, or a “Love of Learning” mom, who excels at calm­ness, and fos­ter­ing inde­pen­dence and love of learn­ing, but strug­gles with routine […]

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Great Nursing and Maternity Wrap Cardigan

January 8, 2010

I am a huge fan of Victoria’s Secrets Soft & Sexy Wrap.  It’s not mar­keted for mater­nity and nurs­ing wear, but that’s what so spe­cial about it.  It’s a good wardrobe invest­ment that you can wear for years to come.  I’m 17 weeks preg­nant and it fits great and is cute, I expect I can […]

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When it's not just morning sickness: Living with Hyperemesis Gravidarum

December 31, 2009

I’m cur­rently in my 16th week of my sec­ond preg­nancy.  With my first child, I was nau­seous dur­ing the first trimester, but hadn’t thrown up at all.  I wasn’t sur­prised to find a few weeks in that I was get­ting nau­seous this time around.  I wasn’t even sur­prised the first few times I threw up, […]

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Nursing in comfort

November 30, 2009

My son is now nearly two months old and yes, I do man­age to nurse him. He takes ages to get full up, so I sit a LOT… I try to walk about nurs­ing him some­times, but it isn’t always a good time or a good idea… So, I have to sit com­fort­able when he […]

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My Favorite Shops for Gifts

November 24, 2009

As the gift-giving sea­son approaches, I thought I’d list a cou­ple of my favorite sites for brows­ing for gifts, (apart from the var­i­ous Ama­zon coun­try sites, of course). The MoMA Store — This is the shop for the Museum of Mod­ern Art in NYC.  As you can imag­ine, the focus here is on design.  There […]

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The BVS Top Ten Toys of 2009

November 2, 2009

As Christ­mas approaches, I know we’re all won­der­ing what to get for the lit­tle ones in our lives.  For some ideas, here are the Ger­man BVS, Bun­desver­band des Spielwaren-Einzelhandels (Fed­eral Asso­ci­a­tion of Toy Retail­ers) top ten toys of 2009.  They’re not all avail­able out­side of Ger­many, but most are.  Have fun! 36 Cube by Thinkfun — […]

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Do we really need fancy diaper pails?

October 15, 2009

With eco­nomic times being tough, I had been think­ing about putting together a post on what baby/kid items are needed and which we can do with­out, but it was such a huge task, that I never got around to writ­ing it.  So I’ve decided to make it a series and go one item at a time. […]

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An Attractive, Affordable Step Stool for Toddlers

October 7, 2009

I’ve got back prob­lems, and it was always a pain, lit­er­ally, to hold my son over the sink to brush his teeth and wash his face and hands.  In the begin­ning, I used a wash cloth to clean him off and just picked him up to let him spit out the tooth­paste, but the older […]

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