breastfeeding

I just finished a fascinating history of breastfeeding and its alternatives and the best part is that the article is free online. Author Paul Doolan starts with the ancient Egyptians and continues through Western civilization right up to the present day.

Heather (who does the Hathor the Cow Goddess comics) blogged her baby's birth. In semi-comic form. Go check it out.

http://www.mama-is.com/the-birth-story-of-ean-campbell/

Click through to see this beautiful photograph:

http://www.blisstree.com/breastfeeding123/bonding-at-the-breast/

I am sure most of you have seen the Breast Crawl video.  I just watched it again.  Very cool!

So, last night my daughters (1,4) and I watched Orgasmic Birth during PinkPeas movie night.  It was a great movie depicting normal birth.  Isabela, my four year old will surely be a midwife by the time she is twelve.  She helped to catch her baby sister and has stated that she does not need our midwives help in catching this baby.  She enjoys listening to "baby sounds" and palpating moms bellies during prenatal times.  She loves watching birth videos and asks for them at home like other children ask for their favorite cartoon.  She is a birth advocate

Sharalyn said, "Wow! That is just never going to be me."  

Ditto!

I am a Christian, wife to Norm and mother to four: Glen (5), Tasha (3), Jamie, and baby Lorelai. It was an honor to be asked to work with Corrrine and the other ladies in the Pinkpeas family. Pinkpeas is just the right home for some of my many interests. We are a homebirthing/waterbirthing family. I am a La Leche League Leader.

Our daughter Isabela was born September 14, 2004. Isabela was born in the hospital. We had the best hospital birth experience one could pray to have and we will never do it again God willing! I like to say that we really just paid to rent the room at the hospital, they left us alone for the most part which is exactly what we wanted. For that money we could have had her at the Four Seasons!

So, here is Liliana's birth story as written by my amazing wonderful midwife Corrine, I love hearing it from your perspective! I will preface it by saying this was our first homebirth, our amazing daughter Isabela was born naturally in the hospital. My husband will say that the most powerful aspect of our homebirth as compared with our hospital birth was how empowered we were as parents.

Here is my yeast treatment plan.  See the end of this plan for links to the "experts" pages on Thrush / Yeast. 

I consider the first three items (***) to be mandatory, the others are optional.  All remedies listed are compatible. 

***Gentian violet - ½% solution topically - 2x/day for 7 days***