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I’m Not a Bad Mom Because I Chose Not to Breastfeed

Filed Under: Feeding Baby, Motherhood, Not A Bad Mom

Please welcome Chrissy, today’s writer in the I’m Not a Bad Mom Series. If you’d like to share your own story, please see details for submissions here.  As the oldest of six children, I watched my mom closely as she raised my younger siblings. I knew that I wanted to be a mom, so I […]

I’m Not a Bad Mom Because I Switched From Breastfeeding to Formula

Filed Under: Feeding Baby, Mental Health, Motherhood, Not A Bad Mom, PPD

Please welcome Kendra to the blog today for the newly relaunched I’m Not a Bad Mom Series. This series will run weekly on Thursdays and if you’d like to submit a piece, please see details here.  My son was born in April of 2012. When I was pregnant, I was determined to do everything “right”. […]

PPMD Screening: A Matter of Life Or Death

Filed Under: Feeding Baby, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Motherhood, PPD, Pregnancy, Suicide

. GUEST POST By: A’Driane, mama of three, wife to a nerdy futurist, and a color addict who gets a rush from putting paint to canvas. A PPD & PPA survivor, she now strives to find the beauty in living despite the chaos of Bipolar Disorder Type II & OCD. An ardent believer in the power […]

Breastfeeding Success: 3 1/2 Years!

Filed Under: Feeding Baby, Motherhood

August in National Breastfeeding Month. When I became a new mom in 2007, I didn’t know how important breastfeeding would be to me until I didn’t make it work with Ronin. Direct breastfeeding that is. In fact, I ended up exclusively pumping for him for 13 months (don’t ask me how I did it. I […]

Decisions: Breastfeeding and BlogHer

Filed Under: Blogs, Feeding Baby, Motherhood

Today I’m linking up with one of my #MHBlogs group members Bereaved and Blessed and her “Time Warp Tuesdays” series. This week’s prompt is DECISIONS. We make them every day, for ourselves and often for loved ones, such as our children, elderly parents, employees, students, etc. Some decisions come more easily than others. Today I’ve […]

Milkmakers Cookies {Review}

Filed Under: Feeding Baby, Food, Gluten Free, Reviews

I just baked the most delicious cookies this weekend. Seriously ridiculously delicious Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies that are ALREADY gone. Sad face. Lucky for me, Milkmakers sent me two bags of mix so I have another one waiting in the wings. Yay! So, you might be thinking, what the heck are Milkmakers Lactation Cookies? According […]

“Baby-Friendly” Hospital Action Alert

Filed Under: Feeding Baby, Healthy Living, Labor & Birth, Motherhood, Physical Health, Pregnancy

What an interesting week its already been! On Monday Lee Jeans posted my Mom Body Image Roller Coaster post on their Facebook page including this graphic of little ole me. —————–>     Then today MomsRising.org emailed an “Action Alert” to all of its members including the story of my breastfeeding struggle with my first child Ronin […]

After The World Stopped Turning

Filed Under: Blogs, Feeding Baby, Loss, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Motherhood, PPD, Suicide

I am blessed to have Zoie on the blog today. This is post she wrote (first anonymously) about her own experience being suicidal after the birth of her stillborn daughter. Today she is ready to share her journey publicly here on Motherhood Unadorned in honor of Suicide Prevention Week. I am very thankful she is still […]

I Am Not a Bad Mom Because of my Parenting Choices

Filed Under: Diapering, Feeding Baby, Motherhood, Not A Bad Mom, Sleep

GUEST POST By: Charity @signingcharity  www.gigglesandgrimaces.blogspot.com   I am not a bad mom. This got me thinking in several different directions. One of the great things about twitter and blogging is seeing all the different parenting styles, what works for some and not for others.  It is a great place to find likeminded people, as well […]

Top 10: Why Breastfeeding Rocks

Filed Under: Eco Friendly, Feeding Baby, Healthy Living

My Top 10: Why Breastfeeding Rocks.   Last week during World Breastfeeding Week, I went a little against the grain and left Ellie for 4 nights for the first time. Unsure if it might be the end of our nursing relationship, I was feeling a little uncomfortable about doing a Breastfeeding post, even though I […]

Should I take the baby to BlogHer ?!?

Filed Under: Biz, Blogs, Feeding Baby, Mental Health, Motherhood

I’ll be geeking out at BlogHer ’11 this August. Yay! For those of you who aren’t familiar — which was ME, oh about 6 months ago newbie that I am — BlogHer is the biggest and best blogging conference around. In fact, about 3,000 bloggers will be descending upon San Diego to take part in […]

A Small Person (or Two) Beside Me

Filed Under: Feeding Baby, Motherhood, Sleep

Groggy in my early morning sleep, a little sound bursts through to my consciousness. “A-boo. A-boo.” For several minutes I don’t know what’s happening. Does she want to nurse? What time is it anyway? A little nose touches mine. “Nose. Nose. Nose.” I hear in her sweet baby voice. I open my eyes to rub […]

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