Imagine yourself after a long day finally sitting down to enjoy your long-awaited meal. When suddenly someone walks up to you irate. They proceed to tell you that watching you eat is offensive and you need to place a blanket over your head to finish your meal. Ridiculous right? Many people do this very thing to children being fed by their mothers.
Why in our culture is ok to sell every item imaginable using a woman's body, but the image of a child nursing is horrifying? Breasts are used to sell everything from beer, perfume, hamburgers, and even to increase box office ticket sales. Yet, as soon as a mother uses her breasts for their natural purpose of nurturing her child there are people practically frothing at the mouth with hatred.
Set aside your judgmental ways and applaud those women for nourishing their child in a way as old as time. Stop trying to shame them into nursing in filthy restrooms. Would you want to take your lunch in a public restroom?
In honor of World Breastfeeding week show a breast-feeding mother your support not censure.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
A Good Parent
Today I was reading a blog post Bad Mother Manifesto . It really rang true to me how much pressure is put on us to be perfect parents. If you get the chance go explore Her Bad Mother. It has many great posts about motherhood.
SUCCESS
You can use most any measure
When you're speaking of success.
You can measure it in fancy home,
Expensive car or dress.
But the measure of your real success
Is the one you cannot spend.
It's the way your kids describe you
When they're talking to a friend.
You can use most any measure
When you're speaking of success.
You can measure it in fancy home,
Expensive car or dress.
But the measure of your real success
Is the one you cannot spend.
It's the way your kids describe you
When they're talking to a friend.
This is one of my favorite parenting poems. It always makes me smile and reaffirms I have made the right choice to be a stay at home mom and support my kids.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
The Unwilling Night Owl
Early to bed and early to rise. That was my motto. Since having kids... It's changed a LOT and not willingly.
I now find myself struggling to fall asleep and once I do get to sleep it's even harder to stay asleep.
I've tried warm milk... ::GAG:: I don't like that stuff when it's cold.. it's so much worse when warm. Counting sheep til I lost count and am really tempted to poke my eye out with a spork. List making to slow or even stop the thoughts that swirl through my head constantly. Mostly to do lists... As a stay at home mom to 4 kids I can always think of something that needs doing. Warm baths seem to energize me and a shower is much worse. What am I to do?
I catch myself spending all day yawning, but then I get to take very few naps. The slightest noise disturbs my sleep or as my husband says, "You startle awake from a mouse fart." Some days I can sleep in until 10 am. At the same time can it really be considered sleeping in if you aren't asleep but instead are pretending in the hopes you can trick yourself into falling back asleep?
As I type this I realize there are many factors to why I can't sleep. I'm sure there are more but there are some that are a constant cause in my insomnia battle.
Having a new baby in the house I wake throughout the night and constantly check on him. Maxx is exclusively breast-fed and seems to go from one growth spurt to the next with very little time between.
If only that were all that kept me from sleep.
My husband has a job that his schedule flip-flops throughout the year. Most the year he is working from 2 P.M. to 10 P.M. but during the summer and winter school breaks from school he works 4 A.M. to Noon. Throughout the year I stay up and wait for him because I can't sleep without him next to me. Then during the flipped schedule I have a tough time falling asleep because he's already comfortably in bed snoring away once I finally get the house settled to bed.
With Maxx teething lately he's been up hourly throughout the night. His constant need to soothe nurse has me worn out. To make matters worse he's started refusing his pacifier lately. So I have become the pacifier unless I prefer a little angry person yelling at me. If it wasn't for Hyland's Teething tablets I would have run away to join a circus by now. Some parents say they don't work for their children. I pity those poor souls. In our house they are miracle pills. My son just has to see the bottle and he perks up and opens his mouth ready for a dose. My daughter did this too when she was little and teething viciously.
Maybe one day I will be the early bird catching her worm again. For now I will be the content mama night owl off to obsessively check her flock "one last time". Let's all hope I get more sleep soon or I am gonna be one nutty mama.
And for those that argue that Hyland's Teething tablets can't safe if they have Belladonna in it.. Please read this very informative post explaining their safety from a great natural mama site.
Everything Birth ~ The Safety of Hyland's Teething Tablets
I now find myself struggling to fall asleep and once I do get to sleep it's even harder to stay asleep.
I've tried warm milk... ::GAG:: I don't like that stuff when it's cold.. it's so much worse when warm. Counting sheep til I lost count and am really tempted to poke my eye out with a spork. List making to slow or even stop the thoughts that swirl through my head constantly. Mostly to do lists... As a stay at home mom to 4 kids I can always think of something that needs doing. Warm baths seem to energize me and a shower is much worse. What am I to do?
I catch myself spending all day yawning, but then I get to take very few naps. The slightest noise disturbs my sleep or as my husband says, "You startle awake from a mouse fart." Some days I can sleep in until 10 am. At the same time can it really be considered sleeping in if you aren't asleep but instead are pretending in the hopes you can trick yourself into falling back asleep?
As I type this I realize there are many factors to why I can't sleep. I'm sure there are more but there are some that are a constant cause in my insomnia battle.
Having a new baby in the house I wake throughout the night and constantly check on him. Maxx is exclusively breast-fed and seems to go from one growth spurt to the next with very little time between.
If only that were all that kept me from sleep.
My husband has a job that his schedule flip-flops throughout the year. Most the year he is working from 2 P.M. to 10 P.M. but during the summer and winter school breaks from school he works 4 A.M. to Noon. Throughout the year I stay up and wait for him because I can't sleep without him next to me. Then during the flipped schedule I have a tough time falling asleep because he's already comfortably in bed snoring away once I finally get the house settled to bed.
With Maxx teething lately he's been up hourly throughout the night. His constant need to soothe nurse has me worn out. To make matters worse he's started refusing his pacifier lately. So I have become the pacifier unless I prefer a little angry person yelling at me. If it wasn't for Hyland's Teething tablets I would have run away to join a circus by now. Some parents say they don't work for their children. I pity those poor souls. In our house they are miracle pills. My son just has to see the bottle and he perks up and opens his mouth ready for a dose. My daughter did this too when she was little and teething viciously.
Maybe one day I will be the early bird catching her worm again. For now I will be the content mama night owl off to obsessively check her flock "one last time". Let's all hope I get more sleep soon or I am gonna be one nutty mama.
And for those that argue that Hyland's Teething tablets can't safe if they have Belladonna in it.. Please read this very informative post explaining their safety from a great natural mama site.
Everything Birth ~ The Safety of Hyland's Teething Tablets
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