May’s Most Popular Posts
May 31, 2007 by kate baggott
Filed under Baby Care, Labor & Delivery, Mental Health
Recently I haven’t been keeping very careful track of each month’s most popular posts. There wasn’t, after all, too much of a difference between January’s and February’s lists. The results for May contained some refreshing surprises. While I often use humor in my posts, all of this month’s most popular pieces are serious and research-based.
I hope this is the start of a trend toward more information-rich blogging among parenting posts. After all, the more we engage with our own children the more we need to learn about how to help them develop and the less we need other people to tell us how cute their kids are!
5. Fish oil and its benefits to pregnant and postpartum women are just beginning to be understood, says this post.
4. What Adoption Usually Looks Like is an example of how the people search for the truth when an event gets so blown out of proporation
3. The popularity of this post shows that parents want to give their babies the best start in life. Waiting until the cord stops pulsing after delivery is one way to start that process.
2. The C-Section Recovery Omnibus contains links to all the recent research about how to recover quickly from a c-section. It has often been the second most popular post.
1. The most popular post is still the one about losing your libido after giving birth. Interestingly, I don’t think it’s popularity is as much about my original post as it is about the discussion that has been taking place in the comments section. It is very honest, often heartbreaking and occassionally joyful stuff.
