🇺🇸💞I celebrate you all breastfeeding moms. For giving all of you beyond your womb and birth experience. For breaking society's traditions, myths, norms and opinions. For being nourishment, soothing and medicine for your offspring. You can enjoy it and get tired of it at the same time because you're not a machine. And I celebrate… Continue reading ¡Feliz semana de la lactancia! |Happy world breastfeeding week!
When I went to birth lessons, I was told that the golden hour after birth should be respected. That a mother and a child should have physical contact inmediately and if the mother wants to breastfeed that would be great too. Three years ago I was robbed of that experience because I had a C… Continue reading A mother and a son without a golden hour
"He should be sleeping in his own bed by now. Get him out of those diapers already. Stop breastfeeding. He doesn't need your breasts anymore. He'll dry you out!" And the list could go on...But from what I've read from children psychology specialists and early childhood education professionals, NONE of that applies to each and… Continue reading Your child milestones’ basics
Why dare to ask a women when is she having another kid, or why she's not having one. Maybe she doesn't want another baby or she's not able to. Respect a woman's reproductive journey and lifestyle. ¿Por qué el atrevimiento de preguntarle a una mujer cuándio tendrá otro bebé o por qué no? Tal vez… Continue reading Respect a woman’s reproductive journey
Some women will be blessed with a natural (vaginal) birth, while others will go to the operation room for a c-section. But they are desperate to meet their babies, regardless of the way they have to come into this world. It is imperative that scholars in the area of medicine, psychology, any other professional, bloggers… Continue reading Stop selling natural birth and the C-Section|Dejen de vender el parto natural y la cesárea
I'm very concerned about the fact that some blogs have spread the news of the study that indicated that "C-Sections are the cause for autism and ADHD". But, my fellow bloggers, let's read about the whole scientific study. In reality, they state that C-Sections are statistically related to this disorders, but is not the reason.… Continue reading There’s no proof that C-Sections are the cause of autism or ADHD
Hiding some toys from my son after he's gotten tired of them works wonders. Today I decided to take out a couple of them and voilá! It worked! He loved playing again with his hedgehog from Learning Resources and a steering wheel from VTec. Have you done the same with tour kids? Esconder algunos juguetes… Continue reading What seems new it’s more fun
23 months and 3 weeks of nurturing my son and knowing that when this journey is finished, I would've done it for us; not because somebody told me to. My experience has been victorious, because when he was in NICU, they told me to rest and let them do the job, but I decided to… Continue reading To all breastfeeding mommys and future moms|A todas las mamás lactantes y a las futuras mamis
This is me a few days postpartum. I never thought my life would change so drastically after giving birth. Specially when my pregnancy was so healthy. My hormones made me a bag of weird symptoms, moody, and weak. But my desire to take good care of my child, to enjoy my life and my growing… Continue reading Postpartum challenge
A dos meses de que mi pequeño amor cumpla dos años, me paso recordando cuán ansiosa estaba de ver su rostro, de abrazarlo, besarlo, verlo sonreír, jugar con él y disfrutar la vida mientras lo veo crecer. Suelo llorar por el tiempo transcurrido, y me parece que fue ayer cuando lo vi tan pequeño entre… Continue reading Solo será bebé una vez
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