Saturday Surfing
A collection of links and images from around the web that interest and inspire me. Ideally published weekly.
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the week: The Best Part of Parenting on Motherlode – Anna Quindlen looks back, from infancy to adulthood. Beautiful, just beautiful. Jimmy Wong Saves The Internet on NPR All Tech Considered – how one man used YouTube to fight back against cyber bullying. Love, love, love his music video! And a follow up…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the week. Best and Worst Countries to be a Mother, InCulture Parent – “The 2010 Mothers’ Index rates 160 countries (43 developed nations and 117 in the developing world) in terms of the well-being of mothers and children. […] The U.S. places 28, primarily because its rate for maternal mortality – 1 in…
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Saturday Surfing
It’s back! Hurray! Awesome/interesting finds of the week: 7 tons of ground beef recalled due to possible E. coli, CNN – Gag. Another example of why a global food system doesn’t work. Eat local…yes, you can find local meat. Go to Eat Wild and search for a farm near you. A Pirate Life on MADE…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the week: Dodging Disney In The Delivery Room NPR – as if new moms aren’t already marketed to enough, here comes Disney… The article is called Feeding babies solids too early may make fat toddlers, but if you read it in depth, the new Pediatric report really says that it will make formula-fed…
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Saturday Surfing
Looking though my hundreds of unread posts in Google Reader last week, I couldn’t help but marvel at how interests evolve, so I thought I would do something a little different this Saturday and build links into an actual post. I follow a few “mom blogs,” like Kelle Hampton’s Enjoying the Small Things whose second…
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Saturday Surfing
Weekly Finds The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Issues Opinion on Planned Home Births – still not supporting home birth, but ACOG did acknowledge that “A review of the data also found that planned home births among low risk women are associated with fewer medical interventions than planned hospital births.” It’s a step in…
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Saturday Surfing
Weekly Finds: Baked Potato Soup – Smitten Kitchen. Yes, please. Federal court hears former San Diego gay couple’s adoption case – Signon San Diego News May not be the best… – Heather Cushman-Dowdee’s comic response to the BMJ article I discussed yesterday. Texas Wildflower Art – a super simple and cute craft from MADE. Another…
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Saturday Surfing
Weekly Finds: Becoming Nana By Julianne Glatz for the Illinois Times – a great piece about becoming a grandma through adoption. Also wonderful, because Julianne’s daughter is breastfeeding the adopted baby and Julianne brags about it as a proud grandma! Yes, adoptive breastfeeding is possible and awesome!! The Incredible Shrinking Baby – The Baker’s Dozen…
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Saturday Surfing
It’s been a busy week: Effort to Restore Children’s Play Gains Momentum – NY Times. Messy houses are good — it means your child is playing! That’s all I needed to hear. 🙂 For Capitol’s Nursing Mothers, an Escape From Politics – NY Times (Lactation rooms, yay!) and a follow up by Politics Daily: Capitol…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Abortion pills prescribed via Net targeted – Washington Post Iraq Study Links U.S. Weaponry to Birth Defects in Falluja, Guardian Says – Bloomberg Mom defies doctor, has baby her way – CNN Health Prudent Advice #212 Remember that most fairy tales were written by men. – This is short and sweet…from…
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Saturday Surfing
It’s Christmas, and the time of year when people think about what they’re going to tell their children about Santa. I shared recently about my struggles with what the holiday will mean to our family, and since then have been doing a lot of reading. So, today’s Saturday Surf will highlight some of the most…
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Saturday Surfing
Wondering what I’ve been doing in Vermont? I’ve been taking The Center for Breastfeeding‘s class to become a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC). I’ll spend more time when I get home talking about the AMAZING time I had this week, but in the meantime I want to share a few of my favorite discoveries of the…