Lune is the French word for moon, the satellite that revolves around the earth, exerting its pull upon the tides and, according to the most respectable old wives, upon the female cycle, fertility, conception and birth.
In moon represents woman at her fullest: pregnant. After that, though, comes the blue moon, the postpartum period and the first phase of new motherhood. With this comes the new role of mother (or multiple times a mother) recovery, adjustment and an entirely new life. Babylune started out as a blog about this first phase of new motherhood, as an information resource for the recovery …read more

The Babylune Formula:
B is for baby (see above).
A is all about abdominal amnesia.
B is for blueberries.
Y is for yam, the fertility fruit.
Lucky me (see above).
U is for what’s under there.
Normal, as in, there’s no such thing.
Embracing every challenge (see above).
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Christina at Solomother has tagged me in the Ten Things That Happened to Me meme. Babylune is about recovering from child birth and I think I should stay on topic at least sometimes, so here are ten things that happened to me when I was trying to get pregnant, pregnant, giving birth or recovering from the experience.

Warning: This post is rather explicit. If you are easily offended by the discussion of human sexuality, do not read past the cut. If you read this blog through a feed without the cut, you should also avoid all of these posts and stop reading the text here.

Thanks to the Mistakes Made & Lessons Learned GWP and the book contest, Babylune was a slightly more popular blog in June than it was in May. I expected the most-read posts this month to be slightly different than May’s most popular posts, but there were some surprises.

I made a list of ten things every woman should have in preparation to take care of herself after childbirth. In the comments that followed, the list expanded to about 15 things thanks to the advice of Babylune readers.

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 …read more

The first six weeks after my daughter was born are full of memories that have nothing to do with her.

Now that the first month of 2007 is over, I thought I would check in and see which posts you found most helpful. Here are the top five.

If 2006 was the year of the prenatal vitamin, 2007 may be the year of fish oil capsules. An Australian study published in The Archives of Disease in Childhood, says that women who took fish oil for the second half of pregnancy, gave birth to children who performed better on hand-eye coordination skills tests than the control group participants who took an olive oil supplement. The research sample group was very small, reported the International Herald Tribune in their analysis of the study.