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Incidentally, it's the slings that have been linked to a handful of deaths over the past 20 years or so. When carrying a very small baby, you need to be careful not to obstruct the baby's airway with the fabric. Also you need to watch for babies being curled into a "C" position with their chin against their chests - this also happens in car seats, and you need to be careful of it happening in those as well. Neither of my DD's cared much for slings, so I never worried about it.View Thread

Re: BFing in public, most states have specific laws that protect mothers' right to nurse in public. (Meaning, they can't be asked to leave a public place for doing it or charged with indecency.)
As an extended BF-er of a three-year-old with another LO on the way early next year, I feel it's pretty easy to BF in public discreetly because, well, the baby covers up pretty much everything! Now, I'm sure there are women out there who either find it difficult to be discreet or just don't want to be - and that's their right. But I don't think I look at it any differently than any other social faux pas. I personally have never seen a mom BF-ing in public who I felt was indiscreet (and I live in California, where public BF-ing is quite common), but I've seen plenty of people pick their nose in public or wearing clothes that were WAY too revealing or making out on a public street.
In short, to me public BF-ing is no different than public bottle feeding.View Thread

Wanted to share this article from Daily Beast on the benefits of very, very old-fashioned parenting (from the hunter-gatherer era) - which shares a lot of qualities with AP.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-11/hunter-gatherer-parents-better-than-todays-moms-and-dads/View Thread

For me, I can remember maybe a handful of times in my life that I've actually fallen asleep and stayed asleep until it was time to get up in the morning. It just doesn't happen for me. According to my mom, I was a champion sleeper as a baby - slept in the crib without any trouble, and slept for long periods from very early on without any need for sleep training. But, as long as I can remember (as a kid, teenager and adult), I ALWAYS wake up once or twice a night and usually get out of bed at least once.
Maybe that's why it doesn't bother me to let DD sleep on her own schedule? She still wakes at night sometimes, but I can't say I ever feel tired during the day.
What about everyone else???View Thread

LO started doing 8-10 hour blocks of sleeping around the 20 month mark. I'm not positive it was exactly 20 months, but it was around then. And we had a good streak going for a while. Now that we're in the midst of a non-sleeping-through the-night spell, I'm just waiting it out until it's over.View Thread



Carbon footprint was 47.99. I commute a long way to work!
Food footprint was 52.99.
Housing footprint was 7.03.
Goods and services was 39.52.View Thread


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