Edit: Just deleted whole text of my post and moved it to Wabi Sabi Mamas Sorry for any blips or confusion in Feed Readers. Here’s an exerpt:
…says that co-sleeping can contribute to frequent waking and uses the previous study to show that co-sleeping is undesirable. However, the study didn’t address continuous sleep versus sleep [...]
Category Archives: search for crunchiness
sleep article: hear mama bear growl
April 8, 2008 – 1:31 pm
un-meat
March 28, 2008 – 5:47 pm
Overheard last night chez DaisyBones: *Achoo!* “Don’t sneeze in mommy’s gluten!”
To make gluten “meat” from regular whole wheat flour, you mix up dough with cold water and about 4 cups of flour. Knead it for 15 minutes-ish, maybe less. Mine was a little chewier than I’d like.
Put it in a bowl and cover with cold water. [...]
lazybones
March 10, 2008 – 1:31 pm
I was in the ninth circle of gastroinstestinal hell this weekend. Dinner Friday was a (really amazingly delish) cheesy pizza, half a pan of Krispy treats, and two cheap beers. Breakfast the following morning killed me. The grandies made omelets and biscuits and breakfast rice (do y’all eat that outside WV? It’s rice with milk, [...]
on being mentally exhausted and also, a mother. and a wannabe bitch.
March 8, 2008 – 4:10 pm
OMG does this make me a post-post-feminist?
I grabbed Bitch off my shelf of books I have had forfreakingever but haven’t read. I’m like 3 pages into the introduction and I’m seriously annoyed that every single example Elizsabeth Wurtzel has given of bad-girl-ness involves women engaged in sexy badness, being the bad girl of men’s wet [...]
because IV tubing and shiny machines (ping!) are too dazzling to compete with actual evidence
February 11, 2008 – 1:40 pm
Despite mountains and mountains of evidence supporting not only the safety of homebirth, but its superiority over hospital birth with regards to normal pregnancies, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has issued a statement condemning births that take place at home.
Clearly we could be doing more as a country to make sure that we [...]
compact florescent lightbulbs and mercury
February 6, 2008 – 3:57 pm
I just learned today that CFLs have mercury. Just a wee bit, but the official instructions are to try to ventilate your house if one breaks. Zow. It’s less than a household thermometer, anyway. The big problem is getting them recycled. Most places don’t make it easy at all- IKEA has a take back program, [...]
one hundred ninety and a weight loss rant
February 2, 2008 – 11:37 am
I just weighed in, and found that I’m ten pounds lighter than my weight when we conceived and after my giant-blimp-water-retention-borderline-pre-eclampsia weight dropped.
Oh my Goddess the squee!
I’d set a goal of losing 20 pounds before my clinic’s big fundraiser gala on February 24th. So I’m halfway there and honestly, if I went crazy and dieted and junk [...]
i feel a letter to the editor coming on
February 1, 2008 – 10:00 pm
From my local paper today:
The report blamed another 188 deaths on sudden infant death syndrome. More than half of those deaths were attributed to such risky behaviors as adults sharing beds with infants or mothers who smoke.
Fuck. I’m too lazy to write a letter to the editor and too pissed off to not. For the [...]
the skinny on the skinny
January 21, 2008 – 11:18 am
The skinny baby is… just a skinny baby Tests all clear. Which I knew deep in my momtuition on Friday morning. Friday afternoon, of course, I knew just as deeply in my anxiety brain that Something Terrible was Wrong. But yeah… no.
The receptionist asked me if I knew who I spoke with- i.e. the [...]
very good argument against hospital births
January 20, 2008 – 3:06 pm
I don’t know how to link to a specific comment, or if it’s possible, but I just read this in a thread on Feministing about home birth legislation, and I could scream for this mama:
I had a hospital birth with my first daughter…the birth itself went ok, it was the aftercare that nearly killed her. [...]
