Can you believe it is Friday already? I bet many of you have weekend plans in honor of Memorial Day. How many of you will be traveling during the holiday or having a BBQ? We will definitely have a BBQ, in fact we did one just last night and plan another this Sunday. I can’t wait.
My own baby is going through the “Me” stage but not as the “it’s mine.” For example, I brought out two chairs and he claimed one, “Me” and sat in it. Another time he asked me something using “me” in reference to him. …read more

I can’t even believe I just typed those words, but it seems a baby that is to skinny is now being put on a diet of 2000 calories. Why? Well, the baby was to thin. Apparently she was born prematurely and is still severely underweight, so much that it concerns not only her family but the doctors. They want this precious little girl to catch up to what others her age would weigh.
The little girl only weight a little less than 17 pounds and is 16 month old, that’s a pound per month she’s been alive almost. This little baby …read more

A 26-year-old mother was just charged for breastfeeding her 6-week-old baby while severely intoxicated this past February. Stacey Anvarinia, the mother, was definitely intoxicated when police arrived at her home for a domestic situation, but what they surprised them was the fact she was breastfeeding her newborn in that state of mind.
Even the La Leche League states that you should NOT breastfeed your baby while intoxicated and that you should wait until you are sober. Currently it is unknown what her blood alcohol level was and even if she was drunk. The assistant state’s attorney, Carmel Mattison has stated this …read more

By no means am I asking you to go out and try all those baby food jars you have for your child. I’m asking what brand do you buy and why? Or if you make it yourself let us know and maybe post a recipe or a link to your site with a recipe.
I never intended this but I buy Gerber and Parent’s Choice. Gerber is what I tend to buy all his baby food, I’ve always used this company so I trust it. As for his favorite I’d have to say it would be Puffs by Parent’s Choice. …read more

Eat 4 Today, a one-stop healthy-eating, nutritional advice, motivational blog, has been completely re-vamped. For anyone looking for advice about what to eat, this is the site to visit.

On this blog and elsewhere, there have been a lot of helpful hints about how to make a healthy meal quickly, and even suggestions for vitamin rich recipes that are especially important for new mothers to eat to rebuild their tissues (but not the new fatty ones), restore their energy and help prevent postpartum depression.

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

Can you believe that Babylune is two years-old today? Here is a link to the very first post.
And, to celebrate, links to the two most important posts I’ve ever written: A Long List of Discomforts and painkillers you should not take after giving birth.

Further to this issue, Chocolate Santa has something to say:

“I am now really, really stale and not worth eating at all.”
Repeat it until you believe it.

I declared my New Year’s Resolution a little early this year. I said that I want more time. More time to enjoy my family, more time to move my body, more time to do things other than work. This has meant taking stock of my life, of my relationships, and my various jobs. Obviously there are some activities that have rewards (love, pleasure, health benefits, emotional/spiritual growth, learning or even money) and others that just don’t do anything for me…or don’t do anything for me anymore.