See here for an article on a Swiss chef serving soups and stews with breast milk in London.
He said: “I first experimented with breast milk when my daughter was born.
Now, can you imagine how annoying it would be if you were a new mother and you had this man/chef as your husband? Here is how I imagine it might go down:
Mom: Can you get me some water, dear, while I nurse the baby?
Chef/Father: But of course. But would you mind pumping from the other breast? I need more milk for tonight’s chicken pot pie.
Mom: Ummmm….I’m a little sore right now, dear.
Chef/Father: I just need 8 ounces, hunny. I’m sure you have enough!
OR
Mom: (Nursing baby on couch)
Chef/Father: Dear, I must talk with you about something important!
Mom: What is it? Are we running out of diapers?
Chef/Father: No. It’s your diet, dear. You really need to refrain from eating garlic for the next few days. If garlic gets into your milk, it will positively ruin my Creme Broulee!
It was just brought to my attention that New York State has an entire campaign dedicated to the dangers of co-sleeping. What the fuck. Could this be any more idiotic and wrongheaded? Read more »
Wow. I just reading this article (thanks to COD for the link), and I am floored by how true it is, whether it was meant to be or not. Funny? Not to me. In my opinion, send a child off to school is like sentencing him to 13 year jail sentence, complete with brainwashing.
I was just talking to my mother last night about reading, and why many school children seem to loath it. I related to my mother exactly how many of the books that I was assigned to read in high school that I actually enjoyed reading. The answer is zero. And no, I didn’t have trouble reading. I read extremely well. I just didn’t like the books assigned, or the process of being constantly judged, graded, and basically put through the inquisition during the process. Now, some supporters of the traditional school might jump to accuse my ex-teachers of not inspiring me enough. Of not motivating me. I think that is a totally irrelevant point. Why would a young human being need some outside person to motivate them or instill the love of learning? Humans survived and excelled for millions of years without needed a teacher to constantly shower them with, “Good job!” The problem is not that teachers failed to provide me with adequate motivation. The problem is that I was attending a school altogether. Read more »
Are you currently co-sleeping? Have you ever co-slept with your children? Of so, take this quick and easy survey. It’s a way for all of us co-sleeping parents to stand up and be counted. The “official agencies”, along with crib manufacturers, have been trying to label co-sleeping parents as neglectful for quite some time. But co-sleeping parents across the world know that it can be done safely, and that co-sleeping very much benefits the breastfeeding mother-child dyad. The survey takes about 30 seconds-1minute.
Check out this link to learn how to co-sleep safely.
And another interesting site from Dr. James McKenna at the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame.
Since this is duckling season, I thought I’d put up a video demonstrating how to herd ducks. Before I got our ducks, that was one of my biggest worries. After all, I live in suburbia. I had visions of quacking, flapping ducks going everywhere except into their pen, including the neighbors’ yards. Luckily, duck herding turned out to be a breeze. M was very nice about demonstrating on video. Read more »
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