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The importance of laughter

November 18, 2013 by Jessica 3 Comments

This post is part of the first Humor in Parenting (and Breastfeeding!) Blog Carnival inspired by the anthology Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding, a collection edited by Rachel Epp Buller and published by Demeter Press in August 2013. The anthology looks at the lighter side of nursing. All of its contributors found something…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Featured, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: breastfeeding, funny breastfeeding, humor, humorcarnival, laughter, parenting, priorities

Humor in Parenting (and Breastfeeding!) Blog Carnival

November 8, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

The hilarious anthology Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding was published in August by Demeter Press (and reviewed glowingly by Literary Mama). The editor is heading up a Humor Blog Carnival this month. Details below! The book contains some 30 essays from mothers sharing the funniest breastfeeding stories you’ve ever heard. Even if the…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Healthy Eating, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: breastfeeding, funnybreastfeeding, Have Milk Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding, humor, humorcarnival, parenting, priorities, wit, writing, writing mama, writing mother

Breastfeeding and birth celebrated in book, film, conferences

August 23, 2013 by Jessica 1 Comment

Birthing and breastfeeding have been on my mind a lot lately for a woman whose days are normally filled with talk of baseball and potty time. My seven-year-old son weaned four years ago, and my daughter, who just turned three, lost her access to my breasts at 22 months when my health was just struggling…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, Birth Story, Birth Without Fear, breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Center for Greater Washington, Breastmilk the movie, Have Milk Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding, HBAC, homebirth, Ina May Gaskin, MommyCon, Nuroo, Sara Lamm, The Business of Being Born, The Leaky Boob

What’s to like about a c-section?

June 12, 2012 by Jessica 32 Comments

Welcome to the June 2012 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Embracing Your Birth Experience This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have written about at least one part of their birth experience that they can hold up and…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, breastfeeding, c-section, Carnival of Natural Parenting, cesarean, home birth, homebirth, ICAN, placenta, water birth, waterbirth

20 years ago today: How I Met Their Father

April 24, 2012 by Jessica 2 Comments

I met my future husband at a dorm room party on Friday, April 24, 1992. Twenty years ago today. “You were babies!” people exclaim when I tell them this. Yes and no. I was 19, he almost 21. We did, in some ways, grow up together.  We’ve seen the world change together, from days of…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, breastfeeding, cesarean, commitment, family, health, Holistic Health, homebirth, marriage, nostalgia, past, pregnancy, priorities, relationship, thyroid

10-Day Yoga Challenge: Day Eight: “Expose your heart”

June 4, 2011 by Jessica 9 Comments

The theme of yesterday’s post was “reveal,” but I waited until this one to close that loop. I am not going to yoga on Day Eight. Instead I went back to a second class on the evening of Day Seven. This does feel like cheating, I admit. But looking at the day, with a wedding…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: 10-day yoga challenge, babywearing, birth, breastfeeding, Centered Yoga, flower essences, herbs, homebirth, homeopathy, mental health, sleep, wellness, yoga

Hirshhorn nurse-in a huge success!

February 14, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

At least I got in some lactivism this weekend! It has been a long string of days with a dramatic, exuberant, clingy, whiny and non-stop-talking almost-five-year-old and a not-much-sleeping, perennially-teething (but happy!) six-month old. So I will save the full report on yesterday’s nurse-in at the Hirshhorn Museum for another time (will link if it…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: activism, breastfeeding, community, feminism

When a friend gets cancer

January 23, 2011 by Jessica 6 Comments

I didn’t even know what the term lymphedema meant when Susan Niebur of Toddler Planet blog told me she was working out a deal to have compression sleeves made available to women who can’t afford them. I hadn’t ever met Susan, but I knew she was in a rough place with a recurrence of cancer;…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, breast cancer, breastfeeding, cancer, health, homebirth, priorities, relationships

At the pump: credit or debit?

December 3, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

On the night my daughter turns just four months old, why did I just spend 15 minutes to pump three ounces of breastmilk? On one hand, I know this is a full month later than most working moms have already gone back to the office. By now, they are pros, with freezers stocked with milk…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: attachment parenting, breastfeeding, childcare, priorities, school, Waldorf education

This IS my activism: response to Erica Jong’s attack on Attachment Parenting

November 10, 2010 by Jessica 8 Comments

I go away for one weekend to introduce my baby to her grandmother, and the internet explodes with responses to author Erica Jong’s diatribe against attachment parenting in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. I mostly appreciate the comments of Madeleine Holler on Babble’s Strollerderby in response to Jong’s piece. But a few things strike me as…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Uncategorized Tagged With: attachment parenting, breastfeeding

Blog Action Day: Water!

October 15, 2010 by Jessica 4 Comments

This Blog Action Day post addresses flouride, plastic bottles, and other issues of safety and environmental awareness related to water.

Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: blog action day, breastfeeding, chlorine, flouride, health, priorities, water

Baby’s first photo shoot

October 1, 2010 by Jessica 1 Comment

Professional photos are not something I’ve pursued for my family. It took me over a year to redeem a free shoot I won from Holistic Moms Northern Virginia chapter‘s one-year anniversary party for pregnant belly shots. When I connected online just a week later with DC-area newcomer Lisa Hager of Red Thread Photography, I was…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: beauty, body, body image, breastfeeding, community, family, priorities

Consumer confession

September 11, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Bless me, Earth Mother, for I have sinned. To cut to the chase, I drove a full 22 minutes on a perfectly gorgeous sunny autumn day to buy a bucket of plastic toys. Virgin plastic. $29.99. Lots of petroleum. Bad precedent. I know, it’s not pretty. So why did I fall so hard? It’s complicated….

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Uncategorized Tagged With: breastfeeding, consumerism, organization, priorities

Counting the minutes

September 5, 2010 by Jessica 2 Comments

There are a lot of emails I haven’t responded to and much more interesting posts I’ve written and never finished getting list to and so never posted. There are a million books I could read while I’m nursing, but at this moment, I feel the need to shout publicly that I am going insane! Yesterday…

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The second time around

August 11, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I have an essay called “The First Time Around” in an anthology that is coming out soon, From the Heart: A Collection of Stories and Poems from the Front Lines of Parenting. It compares my first year mothering to my first year teaching high school and explores the desire for a do-over, to fix all…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: babysitting, birth, breastfeeding, community, healing, priorities

Preschooler’s first movie: Babies

July 10, 2010 by Jessica 1 Comment

Although we are not media-free, I’ve avoided full-length feature films and had not considered taking my son to a movie before the age of six, at least. It just seems like way too much stimulation, not to mention the whole Waldorf thing about media stifling kids’ imaginations. But when I saw the trailer for the…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: breastfeeding, community, media, priorities, Waldorf education

Another mama’s baby

April 3, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Call me a sucker, but I’m so glad I finally got to see the new baby gorilla at the National Zoo. It is just so darn cool to see such an expressive and tiny face on another animal, especially when the baby is naturally clinging to its mama like I’ve tried to mimic by using…

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You don’t have to breastfeed, and we don’t have to be best friends, either

March 17, 2009 by Jessica 2 Comments

So there’s another big to-do about breastfeeding with the publication of Hanna Rosin’s article, “The Case Against Breastfeeding.” There are debates/opinions all over the email list on DC Urban Moms and I’m sure every other moms list out there. I’ve looked over a few posts, but I’m blogging to say that I’m kind of sick…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Holistic Health Tagged With: breastfeeding, community, priorities, working mother, writing

Little Mouth Speaks – a lot! A letter to my loquacious toddler

February 19, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Today was the first day I’d had any childcare in two weeks. There was snow, then a fever, then my boy’s dad got sick and needed tending. Today’s four hours of babysitting went fast, but when they were over, I had a supremely lovely time with my son. It was a chilly rainy day, and…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: breastfeeding, childcare, nostalgia, politics, toddler talk, Waldorf education, writing

When Round Two is with Baby #1

February 19, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

this post originally appeared on February 19, 2009 on DC Metro Moms When Round Two is with Baby #1 Haven’t I been here before? Nursing all day long on the couch, my arm falling asleep as I try to hold a book underneath a head and sleeping body. My breasts aching for a break. My…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: attachment parenting, breastfeeding

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