(continued from Part One)
This is the hard part. A lot of people are totally against allowing a baby to cry themselves to sleep. If you mention it to your mom or anyone of her generation, they would think it was completely normal to do so. Your mom let you cry yourself to sleep. So ask yourself: How screwed up are you? If you turned out okay, then feel free to proceed. Read more »
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Day in the Life, Mental Health | admin March 13, 2009 | 
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A bill just passed in Washington state protecting mothers, breastfeeding in public, from discrimination charges. It seems odd that women should have to be protected from doing the most fundamentally instinctive act of survival, feeding their child. Some people want moms to hide in bathroom stalls as if you would want to eat your lunch in the bathroom. I imagine that the desire to avoid seeing a woman breastfeed is a leftover from Puritan pilgrims, but we live in a society where girls wear hoochie shorts and belly tops, where half naked women are all over the covers of magazines, and I won’t even mention what you can find on the Internet. My solution is for all people who are bothered by seeing a woman breastfeed to do the opposite; get an eyeful of breastfeeding women, look at photos, watch them on buses, seek them out and dive right in (not literally). This is the only way that you’ll get over it. Read more »
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Breastfeeding, In Related News | admin March 7, 2009 | Comments (2)
Do you remember when your newborn needed to be fed every two hours and, on the rare occasion that you left your house, those awkward moments when there wasn’t any suitable place in sight to do so? Maybe you were willing to do the bathroom stall thing. Perhaps you were one of the brave ones, whipping out your boob while standing in the checkout line. My back-up plan was always the car. I had to traipse back to the parking lot, but at least I could sit comfortably and listen to music. One woman took the idea of nursing in the car to an extreme. Sounds like a multi-tasker gone awry. Read more »
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