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Actress and talk show host Ricki Lake has produced a recent documentary The Business of Being Born , premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival...

We buried Zari's placenta under a rose bush yesterday evening. It is a Joseph's Coat climbing rose that will grow up the trellises ...

Free shipping on all of my Second Womb slings now through May Day! I added many gorgeous new fabrics, so be sure to take a look.

...will do this to your child:

Musings about co-sleeping directed to no one in general... I think it's interesting that co-sleeping was quickly singled out as the po...

Welcome to the sixth Carnival of Breastfeeding, April 19 2007, sponsored by the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog! My post is about April's...

Ever since her bout with a ruptured ear drum and then a nasty cold/congestion, Zari has started nursing more and more frequently at night. I...

I followed a recent link on Hathor the Cowgoddess' website , to this fantastic article "Home Economics, Sustainability, and 'Th...

She's still very wobbly and tipsy, but practice makes perfect, right?

Another fascinating article: "Watch Your Language!" by Diane Wiessinger. (A non-pdf link is available here .) She explains the im...

I just came across this interesting article, "Drugs, Knives, and Midwives" about the state of childbirth in the US. Marsden Wag...

Circumcision: I don’t get it.  I’ve read through all the arguments for circumcising, and the more I read the less impressed I am.  The ver...

list updated April 10... Tomorrow night I am giving a short presentation about emergency birth kits, as part of our church women's mee...

My little sis just had a baby boy this morning! Woohoo! She called me about 1/2 hour after the birth and sounded totally wiped out. I don...

The following picture, from the International Baby Food Action Network website , shows a mother feeding her twin babies. She was told that s...

Ever wondered why we put hats on newborn babies? Is it really necessary? Are there risks in doing so? Read this midwife's response to ...

Jennifer at The Lactivist recently posted about a new book called The Feminine Mistake . You can watch an interview with the author here . ...

The WHO has recently published new infant growth standards , based on babies who were exclusively breastfed through 6 months of age. Make su...

Zari practicing her newly developed grabbing ability on Eric's hair: She still loves to sleep with her hands tucked up by her face. H...