This is the interview on the baby photo website where I found Hungry Monkey and Ellyn Satter's Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and good Sense.

How to Raise a Foodie

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I have had a cold for about a week. Beekman apparently had severe ickage (growth spurt? developmental frustration? poor sleep patterns? Mommy ate the wrong things?) for the last two days, so I'm at home today recovering; tomorrow I hope to head north to show him to his great-grandmother, 6 hours away.

Sandra Boyton is a genius; we got Hippos Go ( Read more... )

My baby slept through 95% of a Purim party, including the shortened megillah and a Reinterpretation of the Esther Story as set in the Wild West by a party of Hebrew school children.

We also nearly gave another 10 year old's mother a heart attack by letting her child hold Beekman and carry him across the room.

Short notices...
Camann, William, and Kathryn J. Alexander, Easy Labor: Every Woman's Guide to Choosing Less Pain and More Joy During Childbirth. (Ballantine, 2006)For those who are interested in what the medical birth pain management options are nowadays, and for those who just like reading birth stories. Obviously, the information here is likely ( Read more... )

Gestational Diabetes: What to Expect. 5th edition. American Diabetes Association, 2005I've been reading a bunch of stuff out there about Gestational Diabetes, and I have to say that most of the slim books that *are* available for consumers are pretty much the same as the pamphlets one gets from the Diabetes Educators. This one, at least, has a ( Read more... )

Tracy Thompson. The Ghost in the House: Motherhood, Raising Children and Struggling with Depression. (Harper Collins, 2006).

What a difficult book to read, and yet, it seems to have been helpful to me. ( Read more... )