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As any parent of a toddler knows, patience is a virtue. However, we also know that patience is sometimes the first thing to go, especially on those particularly challenging days. But when we let that patience slip, it begins a vicious cycle. You see, toddlers follow their parent’s lead. When you lose patience with your […]
The cost of health care is skyrocketing and there doesn’t seem to be any end in sight. North American children are overfed, undernourished, inactive, obese, and increasingly – sick. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Preventative health care provides children with the best health possible so they don’t get sick in the first […]
For some background, I was pregnant with our 6th child. My first two were vaginal births at the hospital. The first was a highly medicalized, very bad pregnancy and birth. It left me with permanent scars, both physically and emotionally. My second, different OB and hospital, was a bit less managed, but still ended up […]
It almost seems as if the minute you announce you are pregnant so many people bombard you with what they know is right for you and your baby. I do not understand it. I mean I am guilty of it too, but honestly. How on earth could anyone but yourself know what is good for […]
ODHRAN’S BIRTH STORY: July/August 2010 The hospital scan at 12 weeks had estimated my due date as the 20th July. However, my own estimated due date was 29th July and as I had been charting my own cycle I was completely clear on my dates. As a result I had politely, but firmly, argued with […]
It’s not so easy, being born a girl, knowing that one day you will be a woman. It’s not fair to grow up with the thought that you are a member of the weaker sex. It’s not the most exciting piece of news, when you’re told being a woman means carrying a curse. It’s not […]
“The baby is gone.” These words leave only the rubble of pain and shadows from which a mother must pry herself from. There are no emergency medical teams that could rescue her would-be-baby. She stood helplessly as he left her. There was no angelic intervention. Simply loss. Cold, aching loss. In this dark hour of […]
I felt baby’s movements change about two days before labor began – lower, sharper, and in my back – and I knew baby and my body were getting ready. The baby had felt very heavy on my pelvic bones and it was getting hard to walk, more than with my first two pregnancies. On the […]
Have you ever been envious of someone? Envious of someone’s success, confidence, intelligence? I am sure we all have at some point. A strange thing has happened to me lately. I have birth envy. Not the kind of birth envy that comes about because my own birth lacked something. I envy women in labour. Imagine […]
