Natural Parenting

Mean Tweets: When Men Bash Public Breastfeeding

Taylor Newman — Wed, 30 May 2012 21:05:49 +0000

While breastfeeding awareness among moms may be increasing, some men have missed the memo. Sure, even moms (and moms who breastfeed) have a hard time agreeing on what makes for appropriate public nursing; it seems no matter how much (or little) coverage a mother employs, how old (or young) her baby is or where she chooses to breastfeed (if it’s not on her living room couch), someone’s bound to be offended.

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Taylor Newman

The Home Birth Debate Heats Up

Taylor Newman — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:46:39 +0000

The New York Times Magazine published an article this week on Ina May Gaskin, a leading advocate and pioneer of the homebirth movement in the US that emerged during the late 1960s and early 1970s out of the hyper-medicalized (and sedated) birthing ethos that preceded it.

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Taylor Newman

Could Your Family Live a No-Waste Lifestyle?

Taylor Hengen Newman — Wed, 23 May 2012 02:04:00 +0000

Since becoming parents, we’ve been engaged in an ongoing battle against the accumulation of ‘stuff’ in our home.

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Taylor Hengen Newman

Milk in the Raw

Taylor Newman — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:04:12 +0000

Every other Friday morning, I drive to a local dairy farm and wait in a long line of cars until a refrigerated white van rolls up and parks at the top of the driveway. The cars creep slowly forward, single file, as each person’s bi-weekly order of milk, cheese, and other farm-fresh dairy products – which we place, in advance of pickup, via an online spreadsheet-- is filled by the farmer himself. Customers include stay-at-home-moms and their kids, business people on their lunch breaks, athletes, health-enthusiasts – it’s a diverse crowd. But we’re all there for one reason.

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Taylor Newman

We’re Gardening! (At Least I Think We Are)... Are You?

Tue, 15 May 2012 21:36:02 +0000

I really love the idea of gardening – especially of growing my own food (talk about local) – but I’ve killed more plants in my life than I can count; I’m a little afraid of what I might do to an actual garden. Yet green-thumbed friends tend to dismiss this personal history and insist on how easy gardening is: simply put seeds in the ground, they say. Add water and sunlight, and: voila! You’re gardening.

TIME’s Breastfeeding Cover, and What’s Missing from the Attachment Parenting Conversation

Taylor Newman — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:30:17 +0000

Chances are you’ve seen this cover by now, even though it just hit newsstands today. It took the internet by storm, for obvious reasons (see here, and here and here).

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Taylor Newman

How Do You Define 'Breastfeeding Etiquette’?

Taylor Newman — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:58:34 +0000

There always seems to be some drama going down when it comes to breastfeeding; but more relevant and realistic than the “You Should Breastfeed” vs.

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Taylor Newman

Public Figure Foul: Whoopi Bashes In-Hospital Breastfeeding Support

Taylor Newman — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:39:24 +0000

Remember a few months back when the AAP released new breastfeeding recommendations, based on the growing, impressive body of scientific evidence that breast milk makes for healthier babies (and communities and economies, too)?

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Taylor Newman

Is “Nut-Free” Not Fair?

Taylor Newman — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:57:43 +0000

So, I just read this rant from a parent who believes – among other uber-agro convictions -- that most children’s food allergies are figments of their overprotective parents’ imaginations, and that nut-free rules in classrooms oppress the children who would otherwise embody rugged individualism and success through survival of the fittest, were it not for the commies (and their little commie kids). So, wow.

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Taylor Newman

Would You Be Afraid to Breastfeed This Baby?

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:17:36 +0000

In Louisville, Kentucky the mayor’s Healthy Hometown Movement has produced a series of pro-breastfeeding PSA’s featuring a ‘talking’ baby, espousing the wonders of breast milk and encouraging viewers to appreciate public nursing. “Some people think breast-feeding in public is nasty, but it’s not,” the baby says. “It’s natural.