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This is our 21st guest post in the Birth & Parenting Series. The other 20 guest writers’ stories may be found here. Contact me (wholeparenting@gmail.com) anytime if you’d like to share your story of your child’s arrival, or a parenting perspective. Today’s writer shares her birth story of her son. Jenni bravely faced a long labor and when she finally met her son it was a real gift and celebration! — I woke up at 2:00 am on Friday, March 2, 2012 with contractions. I had been having contractions all week around this time. Except, this time, they were different. These contractions were uncomfortable. With my husband sleeping next to me, I started timing the contractions using an app on my phone. The doctor wanted…
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Camp Patton: have you visited? She’s a mom of three, hilarious, honest, great dresser, and makes parenting a roller coaster of laughs and squeals to watch along with her. I was pleased as pudding when she said yes to my offer to guest post about food. See it here: Healthy & Easy Toddler Snacks & Meals. I scoop on what we snack on, and my easiest 4 meals that almost make themselves, but are healthy. If you’re of my camp and love butter (ha ha. . . . camp!). Check her out, subscribe, like her on the facebook, the whole works. You’ll be glad you did. Thanks for the chance to guest post!
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SuperBoy helps his dad write the initials of the Magi on the Feast of the Ephiphany with a blessing for those who enter into our house. Speaking of names (great transition, right?), how’s it coming on picking a name for your baby? Did you know that everyone has an opinion about your baby’s name? Whether they share it or not, they’re judging. Inside. And either they approve whole heartedly, are luke warm, or think you’re a derelict parent for your selection. What’s in a name? We Catholics recently celebrated the feast day (because we love a good feast day!) of the Baptism of Our Lord. Jesus was once a baby, baptized, and given the name that the angel told his foster father to designate. Jesus,…
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We were out of town last weekend and it was wonderful. SuperBoy stayed at home with my family and AA and SweetPea and I had a lovely little trip. Being home and back in the swing of a semi-dirty house with semi-dirty diapers everywhere and very dirty laundry and a semi-whining child and a very tired baby was less than ideal. I have literally 46 things to do this week, and no time in which to do them. It could have been a very frustrating week. Instead, I’m trying to practice being present as a parent, and not just going into survival mode. (And yes, my son wears the same football sweatshirt all the time. All the Time.) Survival mode looks like this: (Oh good,…
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Judgers love to judge. How judgmental are you as a parent of other parents? Or as a mother to non-mothers? Or just as a mere person to other people? I will confess that I’m judgmental at times. I can leap to conclusions about other people and then decide that’s totally accurate and correct on a dime. I judge other parents, mothers, sisters, daughters & everyone else. BUT I’m working on not being judgmental. Rather, I’d like to exercise my sense of judgment without being judgmental. Tricky thing. Am I splitting hairs? I don’t think so. These are pretty different concepts, right? 1) Judgmental people have few friends. Webster says this: 1: of, relating to, or involving judgment 2: characterized by a tendency to judge harshly — I’m going with the…
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This is the final segment written by a guest writer whose son has been diagnosed with a form of Autism. See part 1 here, and part 2 here. This last segment gives concrete guidance for parents going through the system and provides a number of very helpful tips, including an online support group founded by our writer! Programs That Help But how do you get help for an autistic child? We had insurance through the state of Wisconsin (Badgercare) which has vouchers to pay for special help for children who have Autism … but there’s about a 1.5 year waiting period to get a voucher and a long application process. We figured by that time he’d have been in school long enough he should get…
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