Have you seen the commercial for the new Huggies diapers?  Where they show the different types of squirming babies?   I have an acrobutt.  She likes to play twister.  In bed.  While nursing. She starts out nursing.  Then she gets … Keep reading

A few months ago, I was e-commiserating with a friend about the physical challenges of having children.   We were neighbors in the hospital as she delivered her seventh on the same day my fifth was born.  Obviously, neither of us … Keep reading

The outside world seems to put expectations upon us without care of the consequences.  These expectations may be based on ones they have of themselves, or ones they think we should be following.  Priorities are the true foundation of expectations.  … Keep reading

My 3-year-old’s pre-school teacher pulled me aside one day after school.  My daughter and a friend had been putting dolls in their dresses, pretending to be pregnant, then pulling the dolls out from between their legs, and then pretending to … Keep reading

I was taught in medical school never to leave a newborn delivery without discussing birth control with the new mother.  The exhausted, delighted mothers and smiling fathers would always give the physician a puzzled look when asked, minutes after delivery, … Keep reading

Once upon a time, our bedroom was a little bit famous, although admittedly not quite as well-known as the Three Bears’ chambers. It all started when our son Benedict, now 23, was still an infant, and his sister Grace was … Keep reading

A commenter, Beck, at my recent breastfeeding and the La Leche League post, prompted me to write a long comment about breastfeeding and pumping that I decided to turn into a new post of its own.  Her mention of pumping … Keep reading

“In the mid 50’s only about 20% of U.S. babies were breast-fed.  Nursing rates had dropped sharply after WWII with the wider availability of formula.” It’s crazy to think about how unpopular breastfeeding was for a big chunk of the … Keep reading

I officially received the title of “Dairy Queen” in 1999 when a friend of mine fed a stray kitten in the Hawaiian tropics with my breast milk.    Oh my goodness that sounds so funny.  Let me explain.  I had … Keep reading

In his book about Mother Teresa, Brian Kolodiejchuk quotes the Blessed Teresa of Calcutta that the goal of all her work is to “quench God’s thirst for love and for souls.” 1 Often in the correspondence leading up to the … Keep reading