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Jellybean Watch – Week 5

Today is my first doctor’s appointment for me and the jellybean. I imagine that the blood tests will come back and say I’m iron deficient (again!) and I should be taking the super-strong iron supplements. Last time I was on them and they were about 20x more than the general recommended intake. And I took [...]

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Guest Post @ The Feminist Breeder – Skipping Chapters

I’m guest posting today at The Feminist Breeder. You can check it out here. filed in

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My Birth Story

I’ve written about Riley’s birth in bits and pieces but never really told the whole story from beginning to end. And as this is my 300th post, it seemed like I good idea. I was overdue. I hadn’t had any contractions or braxton hicks contractions for that matter, or so I thought. I felt as [...]

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Great Expectations

This is a joint post with Amber at Unlikely Mama. You can follow her on twitter here. We thought it would be fun to look back on what our expectations were before we had our babies and how they’ve changed a year on (for Amber) and two years on (for me). Having Children Amber: Let [...]

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Just Wonderful: Love and Partners and Natural Parenting

Welcome to the February Carnival of Natural Parenting: Love and partners! This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing about how a co-parent has or has not supported us in our dedication to natural parenting. Please read to [...]

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Death of a Perfectionist

I admit it – I am a reformed perfectionist. The first time I wrote a prologue I re-wrote it hundreds of times until it was ‘perfect’. That is not an exaggeration by the way, literally hundreds of times – on a manual typewriter no less! I had flirted with the idea of ditching my perfectionism [...]

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