what 2Pac and Elton John have in common this song.

Are you a Proud Member of the Militant Breastfeeding Cult?

and this from jenns blog
(about a book called Children First by by Penelope Leach .
i have read and own and thoughts that also swarm round my head)


"Reading this book is really opening my eyes to the way we do things in our culture and how hard we are making it on ourselves. The book talks about how in past times (in our and similar countries) and in many countries around the world, there is a network of friends and family and community that all works together to help each other out.
It's only in America that we expect parents to do everything by themselves.

In Britian it's common for the hospital to send a nurse or assistant to a new mother's home off and on during the first few weeks to help her out, talk to her, etc.

I saw on A Baby Story how in India it's common practice for a woman to "babymoon" at her mother's house for the first month - being taken care of by her mother so that she can renew her strength and focus on caring for her new little one. Of course, in countries like that it's even more common for several generations of family to live together so that new parents always have the support and willing hands of loved ones.

The other side of the coin is how in industrial nations we don't live in the same place that we make our living.
Men and women have to commute to work, put in 8-10 hour days, and then commute home. So at the end of the day you have a cranky, overtired mom and a exhausted dad.

The book also mentioned how women in these other societies were expected to do more than just raise children and keep the house clean. They worked all day long gardening, making clothes, making soap, etc, etc. All these things made them completely necessary and bolstered their self-worth.( i do this quite poorly because it seem we have no support," its each mumma to her own baby in her own square box house all the time")

(Now, I'm not saying that stay-at-home-moms are NOT necessary - just that I think that so many of us have a drive to "do more." To "contribute.") i find i have to achive something other than being mumma, otherwise i'm not of value.

So, does this really change anything? No, not really. It's not as if Ben is now going to give up his IT business and take up farming. (I'm giggling at the thought)! It's not like I'm going to dust off the old sewing machine and start making all of our clothing from scratch (shudder!).

It does however make me see things in a different light. For all of our country's wealth and all of the opportunities, for all of the freedom - we still don't have some things figured out."

italics are mine

Love

I feel your need as I awake
I hear your cries
The fear
The hunger
The anguish
I give myself to you
I let you take all you want
As I look into your eyes we become as one
Mother and son
You get your fill and drift to sleep
As I hold you
I climb into bed with you in your arms
We sleep until I feel your need again.

tye dyed hippy baby clothes
not your timid baby stuff

punk baby gear

i think im gonna make Lucy a black and white checked dress

ex-Ezzo/ growing kids "garys" way, Mums talk.

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Ezzo Blezzo Schmezzo!
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EZZO-FIED!
by Katie Allison Granju<

Cue Feeding: Wisdom and Science

It is now commonly accepted that infants, most especially breastfed infants, thrive best when allowed to feed as they indicate their needs. Nevertheless, some mothers continue to believe that they must wait for their breasts to "fill up" between feedings in order to have enough milk for their babies, and some popular sources of advice for parents urge mothers to stick to a feeding schedule in which even young infants are fed at 3- to 4-hour intervals. Some infants may be able to thrive on scheduled feedings, but many others do not. Recent research on the breast's mechanisms for regulating milk production provides a better understanding of the importance of demand feeding and the role of infant appetite in the regulation of milk production.

......., Hartmann has concluded that the rate of milk synthesis between feedings varies according to the degree of fullness of the breast; the fuller the breast, the slower the milk production rate, and conversely, the emptier the breast, the faster the rate at which the milk is replaced.

...... It was also noted that the women who had larger storage capacities often nursed at longer intervals, whereas women with smaller storage capacities nursed at more frequent intervals. Breast size was not always a good predictor of production or storage capacity, and all of the women had the ability to produce plenty of milk over 24 hours. What varied was the amount of milk that could be delivered at one feeding.

......Supporters of schedule/routine feedings believe that longer intervals make for hungrier babies who will demand more aggressively and who will obtain the higher fat milk available at the end of a feeding. However, Woolridge has shown that prefeed fat levels are inversely related to the length of the interfeed interval. Fat concentrations of milk can be maximized by increasing both feed frequency and the amount of milk removed from the breast at a feeding. When feed frequency and duration are restricted by predetermined feeding schedules, the result may well be lowered infant fat intake, symptoms of breast milk insufficiency, and underfeeding.^2,10

calvanism and attachment parenting

the line between mama and baby