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Playful Parenting LuschkaFebruary 15, 2011 6

How Do I Learn To Play?

I made an alarming and dreadful discovery recently: I don’t know how to play. I’ve been trying to think about the games I used to play as a child, and…Continue Reading →

Reviews

Free* Breastfeeding Cover – To Cover Or Not To Cover Really Isn’t A Question

One of the most annoying “politics of breastfeeding” I came across when I started breastfeeding was the ‘To Cover or…

Luschka 10February 14, 2011
Pic Of The Week

Pic Of The Week 52-05

A lovely week for us, filled with family and free time too. Here’s my dad with Ameli, having fun in…

Luschka 0February 9, 2011
Carnival of Natural Parenting LuschkaFebruary 8, 2011 55

I Cannot Imagine Parenting Without…

The theme for this months’ carnival of natural parenting is “I cannot image parenting without…” At first I thought it was an easy answer, but a bit of investigating brought…Continue Reading →

Misc

Tuiss – Energy Saving Blinds

*This is a sponsored post* Our last house was a lovely place. It was large, by London standards, and it…

Luschka 1February 7, 2011
Letters to Ameli

Dear Ameli- Letter To A Sixteen Month Old

Dear Ameli Sixteen months, little girl. Sixteen months. We’ve had quite a hard month, really, and it’s been more about…

Luschka 2February 4, 2011
Pic Of The Week LuschkaFebruary 2, 2011 4

Pic Of The Week 52-04

I had a rough week. It started with what I firmly suspect was dodgy calamari – I thought it tasted funny, but everyone else said it was fine, and then…Continue Reading →

Cosleeping

Co-sleeping and Sex

A baby in your bed is the end of your sex life. If your baby is in your room, it’ll…

Luschka 4January 27, 2011
Pic Of The Week

Pic Of The Week 52-03

We went to a place called Warmbaths with my parents for the weekend. It’s a resort with a natural hot…

Luschka 4January 26, 2011
Breastfeeding LuschkaJanuary 25, 2011 13

Co-Sleeping and Breastfeeding

A reader asked me to write about co-sleeping and breastfeeding. Although this is something we’ve been doing since around one and a half hours after Ameli’s birth – she was…Continue Reading →

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Advice, opinions and experiences shared here are my own, or those of my contributing writers or commenters. While alternatives to medicine or traditional thinking are often shared, they’re done so on the basis of my own research and what works on my own family, and should not be taken as medical advice since I am not a trained medical practitioner. Any suggestion given is to be taken as such, weighed up against your own research and your own circumstances

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