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Vaccine awareness is on the upswing.  Everybody wants to know- are they safe?  effective?  useful?  I have decided to start us off with a basic article dispelling 10 common myths and countering them with truth.  If you aren't open to changing your mind, read no further.  The website I took this from is one of my faves.  Expect lots from here in the future.

Here's the discussion going on at Pinkpeas right now. Car seats are fun, right? Not really. Necessary, but such a pain to find the right one and install it properly in your car. Just when you've got one down, along comes another baby and now you're fitting two in a car. Then, you're pregnant with baby #3. Wait - how do I fit three car seats in my little car?!? We have two pregnant mamas here in this exact situation. Buying a bigger car isn't really an affordable option. Here's a site that might help.

I am a Christian, wife to Norm and mother to three: Glen (5), Tasha (3), and an unknown little one due in July. It was an honor to be asked to work with Corrrine and the other ladies in the Pinkpeas family. I believe 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. I started and continue to run Vegaroos, the only babywearing group in Las Vegas. I am interested in natural family planning (NFP) and am working on becoming an NFP instructor.

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.