Ivy has been (figuratively) running from one milestone to another. She started commando-style crawling right after she turned 5 months old. ...

A blog reader, Michelle, sent me her breastfeeding stories. She has four children and was never able to nurse exclusively, despite trying ev...

Birth hypnosis, HypnoBirthing, Hypnobabies, Hypbirth, the Birth Relaxation Kit... If you're at all part of the birth world, you've...

I recently tested and reviewed the Breastflow Memory Pump by The First Years. The company has generously offered to give away a pump to a S...

I've been pumping and donating since Ivy was 2 weeks old. I've used two pumps, the Ameda Purely Yours and the Medela Personal Double...

Time for some crowdsourcing!  A reader just emailed me with a request for information about low platelets and the risk of PPH. Here's he...

Jamie Bourgeois of Bourgeois Baby contacted me last month wondering if I'd test out a handmade bib and burp cloth. I have the world...

On top of almost crawling , Ivy has started grabbing her feet. And everything else within range. We have to really watch out when we're ...

...a baby hammock! Ivy isn't sleeping well , and several readers suggested a spring-mounted baby hammock. From Dwell My first t...

Ivy Ivy can do a perfect downward-facing dog. Kind of hard to see with a dress on...let's take it off. See? Not bad for less...

Non-fiction: Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams.  This book was a Silent Spring for breasts. Funny at times,...

I love having newborns. They're cute and cuddly, and best of all they sleep a lot. People always talk about how exhausting it is to be a...

My 90-year-old German grandmother has been leading a free exercise group three times a week for 40 years. She was born in Danzig (now part o...

We're starting to harvest food from our garden! Most dinners consist of whatever we can pick plus the occasional supplemental protein in...

I'm excited to share this interview with Meg Gregory of m.e.g. photography ! She is a talented photographer and mother to two girls ages...

I am so excited to share the nursing photos I had taken last week! Meg Gregory of m.e.g. photography offered mini-sessions to nursing mothe...

Slow down. Just please slow down a bit, little Ivy. You're changing too fast! New tricks this month: laughing (for real) grabbing o...

The world is "so shocked" by Kate Middleton's post-baby belly . Well, I think that's a bit presumptuous. Ask any mom and s...