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The Cost of Breastfeeding

Ruth Mantell has a post on WSJ blogs about “The Economic Consequences of Breastfeeding.” I would take issue with Mantell’s approach if it were intended as anything more than a typical blog post, but I could not be more thrilled that this is being discussed at all! I love the fact that Mantell can share [...]
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Baby Litter

Our apartment complex is reasonably clean. People let their dogs go where they should not, but things generally get picked up fairly quickly. On Tuesday morning I  looked out the sliding door to see that a piece of litter had fallen by the edge of the patio. After smirking at the obvious message I walked down the [...]
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Nontraditional Lullabies

My husband has said for years that he thinks that Tantum Ergo would make a great lullaby. I never disagreed with him (all eye-rolling to the contrary) but now I have a few more ideas. Enter Rockabye Baby! I grew up in a home that was rather loud and did not include much in the way [...]
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A child, not a choice… but still a choice?

On my way to work this morning I followed a very slow car with a bumper sticker proclaiming “she’s a child, not a choice.” And I gradually got more and more upset. The speed of the car did not bother me, it only gave me plenty of time to contemplate the stupidity of so-called “pro-lifers.” [...]
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