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Allergens Part 1: MSPI
No gluten, soy, milk, or dye. You know that kid whose mom is always saying, “No, he can’t eat that”? The kid who seems allergic to air, who isn’t allowed to have candy, and who, when everyone snarfs...
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Allergies Part II: In Which I Give Up Bread
So cute, yet so allergic. You know that kid whose mom is always saying, “No, he can’t eat that”? The kid who seems allergic to air, who isn’t allowed to have candy, and who, when everyone snarfs...
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Attachment Parenting: The Luxury of Choice
O, Internet. You made childrearing a graduate-level research project. In laughably minute detail, we catalogue and debate, read and respond, cite some experts and decry others. Then, having uncovered...
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Baby Can’t Eat: Sunny’s Reflux Story
The beginning of rash between his eyebrows. It takes my fingernails 6 1/2 months to grow from cuticle to end. I know this because last week, 6 1/2 months after I started a Total Elimination Diet, my...
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Ten Truths about Tandem Nursing
photo by Blue Silk Photography It’s lazy. Yes, you can learn other ways to soothe your pissed-off, supplanted toddler. But boobs work so well. Plus nursing two kids at the same time means bonus...
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Sh*& Lactivists Say
Oh, I’ve been to nurse-ins. I’ve tandem-nursed – twice, and intentionally. My oldest breastfed until he was three. All my kids have various protein intolerances, requiring me to keep dietary...
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What “Extended Nursing” Really Looks Like
Never read the comments on an article about extended breastfeeding. In various levels of bafflement and contempt, they boil down to two ideas: Boobs are for men. Nursing is weird. Every other...
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