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Is a Restricted Diet Necessary When Breastfeeding a Baby with Food Allergies?

After my fourth child was born (via my fourth c-section), I couldn’t have anything to eat at first. It’s the rule right after surgery, even though I hadn’t eaten in almost 24 hours and my gurgly stomach needed something to settle down. But they did let me have some fluids. I remember asking for chocolate […]

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5 newborn interventions you can skip during the first week and why

Natural Parenting During the First Week: You Still Might Have to Say NO, Just Not to the Child

First time parents quickly realize that suddenly being thrown into THIS new job – no training, no breaks, no going home at the end of the day to decompress and refresh – likely has the steepest learning curve they’ve ever experienced. It can be totally overwhelming just sustaining the new little life, let alone realizing

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These first foods ideas for baby might go against mainstream advice, but are perfectly normal in a real food house!

Eat Well, Spend Less: What Goes on this Real Food Baby’s High Chair Tray?

You know that meme about how parents’ treatment of pacifiers changes as they have more kids, from sterilizing the thing every time it touches anything but baby lips to grabbing it from under a church pew and poking it back into baby’s mouth? That’s totally me, minus the pacifier. With my first child, I read

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