Today my husband took my older girls to a major league baseball game while I stayed home with my 11-month-old. The minute her sisters (i.e., the entertainment) left she started fussing! Who wants to stay home with boring old mom anyway?! Now I say this in the most loving way possible: this child is like a dog, if only in the sense that she goes to the door, bangs on it with her hands and yells until I say we’re going out! She wants to be where the action is, there’s no mistaking that.
o we headed out the door …read more

Breastfeeding 1-2-3 is honored to be a part of today’s Healthy and Fit Family Carnival (scroll down past the “sticky” top post to see the carnival entry) hosted at The Porch Light. Click on the carnival link for access to ten great articles on nutrition, eating together as a family, playing the pounds away, and helping your child become an optimist. Learn more about the right foods to boost your child’s brain activity and how to eat your way through the alphabet (a fun challenge to help your kids eat more fruits and vegetables)!

To accompany the post “Exercise for New and Nursing Mothers” Breastfeeding 1-2-3 ran a poll asking how often you exercise each week. The results were quite revealing:
Exercise? What’s that? 5% (2 votes)
Does lifting the baby count? 14% (5 votes)
Isn’t chasing around 2 or more kids enough? 24% (9 votes)
Once per week: 3% (1 vote)
Twice: 16% (6 votes)
Three times: 8% (3 votes)
Four times: 8% (3 votes)
Five times: 11% (4 votes)
Six times: 3% (1 vote)
Seven times: 8% (3 votes)
The following pie chart illustrates the comparison of the number of women who do not follow a formal exercise program to the number of …read more

Happy New Year everyone! With the new year upon us, several mothers have written about their new year’s resolutions. Read on if your resolutions include one or more of the following:
~ Get some exercise (Breastfeeding123.com)
~ Plan ahead for quality family and couple time (BreastfeedingMums Blog)
~ Work on manageable goals (drink more water, volunteer, not overextend) (The Lactivist)
~ Get organized (Mama Knows Breast)
~ Do at least three things to support breastfeeding (Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog)
~ Consider what’s best for your child first (Momma’s Angel)
~ Work on how you speak to your child(ren) (Natural Moms)

Each year for the past several years I have resolved to exercise at least four times per week. That resolution is harder to keep at some times than others–there may be a week I don’t exercise at all, and another week where I manage to cross five days off on my calendar. Looking back at the last year, I can see I didn’t quite meet my goal. No matter because 2007, here I come!
If you are like me, you may be wondering what the scoop is on exercise for nursing mothers. (If your New Year’s Resolution is to quit smoking, …read more

For tomorrow’s Carnival of Breastfeeding on New Year’s Resolutions, I’ll be discussing exercise and breastfeeding, including whether exercise affects breast milk and how nursing mothers can incorporate some exercise into their routines even if they have a young baby.
With that in mind, I’ve started a new poll:
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To view all prior poll results, click here.