This rant is directed toward the American (ie Western) misconceptions and judgements about how a baby should be handled, when it should be fed, put to sleep, held, etc. My head began turning when a good friend of mine stated, “When a kid is old enough to ask for it, it’s time to stop nursing!” [...]

People Magazine loudly proclaims: “Talk about camera ready! A mere nine weeks after giving birth to daughter Ashby Grace, Access Hollywood’s Nancy O’Dell has lost 24 of her 30 lbs. of pregnancy weight.”  They even have a photo of Mrs. O’Dell looking lean and lovely, with her new baby girl.
O’Dell credits her quick shedding of [...]

With all the excitment of pregnancy and search for cute, comfortable, and well-fitting maternity clothes, most women don’t think about what they will wear AFTER the baby arrives! But sure enough, the day arrives when you look through your closet and realize that… nothing quite fits! Your maternity clothes seem loose and stretched-out (and who really [...]

I read this article called Not a single Israeli hospital qualifies for ‘baby-friendly’ status with great interest, because I gave birth in an Israeli hospital, and I experienced the same problem discussed here!! Basically, to qualify for UNICEF and WABA certification as “baby-friendly” institutions, one of the criteria is “help[ing] mothers initiate breastfeeding within a half-hour [...]

How do a mother’s feelings durring pregnancy affect her relationship with that child? Well, when I was pregnant with Esther, who is now two years old, I’ll be the first to admit that I was not exactly “accepting” of the fact. There was no question that I wanted to have children but I was’t feeling particularly [...]

It can be hard for many childbearing women to accept the way their bodies look post-pregnancy… Hey, it’s hard to accept the way our bodies look even pre-pregnancy. Here’s a cool site I found called The Shape of a Mother, which states:
Becoming a mother changes everything in your world - including your body.Here we share [...]

Just so you know I wasn’t kidding when I said Esther was beautiful right from the start, here’s a picture to prove it. This is when she’s just a couple days old… sometime while we were still in the hospital. The funny thing is, subsuquent pictures are often quite odd-looking. I look at them [...]