What Atheism Taught Me About Parenting
I’m a Christian (and unfortunately I feel the need to note that I’m not the crazy kind) but there are things about traditional Christian parenting that I don’t agree with (spanking, for example). I enjoy reading secular parenting blogs because I think they have great ideas for teaching many things. A few years ago I was watching CSPAN (yes, I like CSPAN) and it had a talk at an Atheist convention by Julia Sweeny (of SNL’s Pat fame) about raising Atheist kids. She was talking about how people assume, wrongly, that Atheists are amoral. That they don’t teach...
Read MoreThe Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
From time to time I like to do a Good, Bad, and Ugly post because it seems a nice way to catch up when I’ve been MIA for a while – as I have been this summer! I really want to get back into blogging – writing and reading! – this fall but I have to tell you everything that’s been going on with me. Including why I’ve been so silent. So, in reverse order: The Ugly Post Partum Depression (PPD). It shouldn’t be surprising that I succumbed to PPD given my list of risk factors: previous clinical depression, infertility/IVF, twins pregnancy, bed rest,...
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Welcome to the Baby Dust Diaries! My little slice of the web for sharing my journey to motherhood and beyond! Infertility. No one thinks it will happen to them. In reality, fertility – something we take for granted – is a miraculously coordinated orchestra of hormones and timing. In couples suffering from infertility (IF) a part (or parts) of the orchestra are not playing in key. Just one wrong note makes the seemingly simple task of procreation extremely difficult. For 9 years I was a mother without a baby. Now, with my miracle IVF baby, I’m transitioning into the...
Read MoreIn the end, it was the tornado that did it
My boys are breastfeeding! Exclusively! No supplementation, no (well almost) pumping and bottle feeding! I’m so happy about this development that I feared would never be achieved. Having preemies who had poor latch and suck along with the stress of trying to keep up my supply solely through pumping was so stressful. Actually putting the boys to breast became recreational after the stressful work of supplying their food source with pumping and formula. This was clearly not the way to achieve exclusive breastfeeding but it was so stressful everytime I tried. And then a tornado...
Read More6 Weeks, 26 Months, 5 years and a Decade plus 2!
6 Weeks and 26 Months That’s how old my kids are (kids!! multiple!! that is so … awesome!). Asher and Boston are six weeks old today and better yet they are both home! Asher came home at 4 weeks 2 days old and Boston and 5 weeks 1 day old. They were in the NICU so much longer than I expected! The progress is soooo excruciatingly slow and then bam! It is like the baby wakes up one day and “gets” it – starts eating, waking up more, looking around with cognition in his eyes. Last friday they had a ped appt. (2nd for Asher and 1st for Boston) and they...
Read MoreToddlerhood
My little girl is 22 months old! I’ve been so busy with pregnancy and NOT blogging that I haven’t gotten a chance to tell you all how unbelievable fun she is! It is just indescribable how awesome it is to have a toddler. I didn’t think anything could get more awesome than babyhood but now she is a PERSON – a walking, talking OPINION! It is precious (and challenging). Before I get to the good stuff – a tragedy. Aellyn weaned. After all my courage went into defying my doctors and nursing through my Frozen Embryo Transfer I completely dried up around 15...
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