|
This Week On TLB 
|
|

We’re well into the 21st century yet breastfeeding appears to still make many people uncomfortable. I keep hoping those individuals that get upset about the biologically normal way to feed a baby are really a rarity but, unfortunately, it still seems to be a hot button issue. Regardless of how a woman is most comfortable feeding her baby, be it uncovered at the breast, covered at the breast, a bottle of expressed breastmilk, or a bottle of formula, plenty of people are uncomfortable witnessing a woman feeding her child and any form of breastfeeding seems to especially elicit vocal expressions of discomfort from others. I identified 9 reasons people may be uncomfortable seeing breastfeeding be it on social media or in person settings and tried to offer some solutions in overcoming what is essentially a discomfort about babies being fed.
READ MORE
|
|
It seems of all the things we love, it’s hardest to love ourselves. Maybe it’s the ideal we are being sold by the media. Maybe it’s borne out of comparison. Maybe there’s no real explanation at all. I’m not really certain, though I suspect it’s a bit of all of those. We love our partners, our children, even our dogs (even though they chew on things and poop on things). But at the end of the day, we look in the mirror, we poke, we pull, we loathe. Many of us do it. Most of us do it. I don’t know why we exhaust ourselves to be something besides ourselves.
READ MORE
|
|
|
It seems of all the things we love, it’s hardest to love ourselves. Maybe it’s the ideal we are being sold by the media. Maybe it’s borne out of comparison. Maybe there’s no real explanation at all. I’m not really certain, though I suspect it’s a bit of all of those. We love our partners, our children, even our dogs (even though they chew on things and poop on things). But at the end of the day, we look in the mirror, we poke, we pull, we loathe. Many of us do it. Most of us do it. I don’t know why we exhaust ourselves to be something besides ourselves.
READ MORE
|
|
|
Leaky Chronicles: Real Stories For Real Life
|
|
Between 3 and 4pm on Saturday, May 9th, 2015, the day before celebrating her very first Mother’s Day as a mom, Bump 2 Baby Birth Photography owner, Abby Camarata, discovered that her access to the virtual global town hall that is Facebook was unavailable. More specifically, that her account had been disabled. The new mom of 4 week old Rocco was cut off from much of her community and from her business and she had no idea why. When she attempted to log in she received a message from Facebook that her account was disabled and if she had questions she could visit Facebook’s help center. That was it. READ MORE
|
|
Ingredients:
- 1 Tbsp almond butter
- 1 cup fresh spinach, tightly packed (or a pretty healthy handful if you aren’t into measuring…like me.)
- 1 celery stalk, roughly chopped
- 1 green apple, seeded and cored, roughly chopped
- 1/2 cucumber, peeled and chopped
- 2 fresh basil leaves (optional, but great for milk and taste)
- 1 tsp (heaping) flax meal (optional, but great for milk)
- 1/2 avocado
- 1 cup water
-
Directions:
Combine everything in blender or magic bullet and blend until smooth. Chill in freezer for 20 minutes or drink immediately.
Let’s keep ourselves fueled, mamas. Feeding babies and taking care of ourselves is hard work.
See full recipe and info here.
|
|
|
Parenting and Feeding Around the Web
|
|
|
|
|
|