All About Babylune: The First Phase of New Motherhood
January 14, 2008 by kate baggott
Filed under Baby Care, Breastfeeding, Fertility/ Infertility, Labor & Delivery, Mental Health, Nutrition
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
#41. Parenting Quote of the Week
November 4, 2007 by kate baggott
Filed under Mental Health
Building with blocks is both educational and entertaining, both art and architecture. It takes ingenuity and faith, planning ahead and plunging forward. It can be fun or frustrating. Some towers become skyscrapers; others topple down. Whatever happens, you will always have a set of blocks with which to begin building again.
– From Writing Motherhood by Lisa Garrigues






