Nantucket
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Bottle-feeding and the Risk of Pyloric Stenosis, Pediatrics — Study published in the October issue of Pediatrics: “Bottle-fed infants experienced a 4.6-fold higher risk of [pyloric stenosis, a narrowing of the opening from the stomach into the small intestine] compared with infants who were not bottle-fed.” Another reason to be thankful…
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Film Friday: Nora at Three
in Film FridayI’m posting! It might be about a week late and it might be 3 in the morning, but I am doing it and I’m going to pretend that’s all that matters…especially because I’m posting a Film Friday video. (Remember Film Friday? I used to be so good about that.) Anyway I’m taking five quick minutes…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Being a Mom Is Not a Job, The Juggle — Motherhood as a relationship not a job, despite what politicians might tell you about how their wives have the hardest jobs. The Bond of Blueberry Jam, Motherlode — I love this post about a mother canning with her daughter. Is Alzheimer’s Type 3 Diabetes?, NY…
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Friends, Yoga, Love and a Whole Lot of Gratitude
Six months have flown by and now that summer’s over and I’m 15lbs heavier with a belly out-to-here, we’re just about in countdown mode for Peach’s arrival. Everyday, Nora tells me, “Wow, Mama, your tummy is getting really, really big!” and perfect strangers now feel comfortable asking me when I’m due and what I’m having…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Association Between Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration and Obesity Prevalence in Children and Adolescents, The Journal of the American Medical Association — New study which found that BPA concentration was significantly associated with obesity in children and adolescents. Avoiding Sugared Drinks Limits Weight Gain in Two Studies, NY Times — Just as NYC…
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Exciting Changes
Over the past couple months, in between and around client sites, parenting, World Breastfeeding Week and the rest of, well, life, I have been secretly cooking up some changes for my own blog. For a while now, I’ve felt like the plumber with a leaky faucet: always working on other people’s websites while my own…
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Island Fair
This weekend was the island fair. Though it’s nothing compared to the Texas state fairs we used to go to — with stalls upon stalls of animals and vendor after vendor selling a ridiculously scary amount of fried “foods” (many of which were deathly even before being batter-dipped and finished in hot oil) — our…
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Saturday Surfing
Some Old Things I Bookmarked…(has it really been nearly a month since my last Saturday Surfing post?): Dear Mr. Akin, I Want You to Imagine…, Huffington Post — Eve Ensler’s response to Todd Akin’s comments about legitimate rape. An Immune Disorder at the Root of Autism, The New York Times — At least a subset of…
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Adventures in Schooling
This week marked the official start of our adventures in schooling. We are still very much on the fence about what we will do when kindergarten rolls around — whether we’ll be doing homeschool or one of the two private schools — so for preschool we decided to do a combination of the two. Nora…
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Nora’s Maisy Birthday Party
We celebrated Nora’s third birthday Sunday morning. Those of you following me on Facebook got little sneak peeks of our party decorations as Nora and I made them, and knew that I was worried about rain because we were hoping to hold the party outside. It did, indeed, rain but we managed to squeeze everything…
