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toddlers

Breastfeeding after reduction surgery - the second time around

February 9, 2011

I wrote pre­vi­ously about breast­feed­ing my first child after hav­ing had breast reduc­tion surgery as a teenager.  We suc­cess­fully breast­fed for 27 months, until I stopped pro­duc­ing milk due to hyper­eme­sis dur­ing my sec­ond preg­nancy.  Because I had to pump and sup­ple­ment dur­ing the first six months of Oliver’s life, until he started eat­ing solids […]

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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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Separation while extended nursing

September 8, 2009

I fig­ure I’m a lit­tle unusual in the mod­ern, west­ern world.  At 25 months, my son Oliver is still breast­feed­ing, and last week­end was our first extended sep­a­ra­tion since his birth. I’ve left Oliver for a few hours before, even for almost a full day, but he’s never spent a night with­out me.  I was a […]

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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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Boon's new bath line

December 20, 2008

Com­ing soon to a store near you! Boon has a pre­view of their upcom­ing new addi­tions to their bath line.  There are quite a few inter­est­ing and unique bath toys shown in their Face­book gallery.  Boon will be sell­ing rub­ber ducks that are PVC, phtha­late and bpa free, and the item I am prob­a­bly most interested […]

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