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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 05:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natural Urban Mama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I asked the Mamas on my Facebook page and on Twitter to let me know in three words or less what &#8220;MOTHER&#8221; meant to them. This is what they had to say&#8230; . . . . . Happy Mother&#8217;s Day to all of the most amazing, wonderful, inspiring Mamas EVER!! {YES, I am talking to YOU!} Much Love, Natasha~]]></description>
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		<title>make it stop</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 05:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[**Trigger ALERT** Please be aware that this post is about things that may or may not trigger deep emotions and reactions in some people, especially those with a history of Post Partum Depression. If you feel that you are not ready to read this post, please don&#8217;t. Today I am full of so many emotions, that the only way I seem to be able to cope with any of them is to kind of turn them all off and be numb. And when I do find the strength to deal with my feelings, the one emotion that keeps rising to the top is ANGER! I AM MAD! REALLY, REALLY MAD!! You see&#8230; {brace yourself} I found out today that a girl I once knew, a girl I worked with, a girl whose wedding I attended&#8230; Smothered and killed her four-month old baby boy. I am sorry, but yes, this tragedy happened yesterday. I don&#8217;t have all the details. All I know is that a child is dead, another has lost a baby brother and likely a mother too and a husband and father is grieving so much that my heart is breaking into a million pieces for him. Am I mad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mama Music. Review &amp; Giveaway: ‘The Full Catastrophe’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 05:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a WINNER! &#160; Zita on May 9, 2012 at 4:43 PM There is nothing in the world that moves me quite so powerfully as music. I have genres to fit all my moods and get very antsy in ‘silence’. Lately, I’ve been very into lyrics as well- I appreciate a lot of the poetry that’s emerging in new indie music.  Great review, N! Congratulations Zita! An email will be sent to you shortly. Thank you to everyone for entering! ********** &#160; I have a 3.5-year-old and a 5 year old. I know all the words to the Hello song, the Goodbye song, the Clean-up song, the Ridin&#8217; in the Car song, the Playin&#8217; in the Kitchen song, the Sleepyhead song and countless more. The 6 CD-changer in my car has been overtaken by all of the kid&#8217;s music class CDs, not to mention what is on my iPod, and I am told within 30 seconds of getting into the vehicle which selection they want that day. This is really not a bad thing. My kids have an appreciation for music and we try to expose them to lots of different genres. They love to sing and make up songs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babywearing: Why I don’t DO “FFO”.</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.naturalurbanmamas.com/2012/05/07/babywearing-why-i-dont-do-ffo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 19:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natural Urban Mama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twice this past week the debate about wearing your baby in a front or forward-facing-out (FFO) position has come up in two separate babywearing Facebook groups that I belong to. I have weighed in on both of these discussions and felt that since it was coming up so much within these groups, that I should share this information and my thoughts on the whole topic with everyone! In case you are wondering what FFO is or what it looks like. This is what I am talking about. A baby being worn on your front, facing out and often is a stretchy wrap carrier or some version of a Baby Bjorn type carrier. &#160; I have several opinions on this matter and I want to start with just that. What I am about to post here is MY OPINION. It is based on my experience as a babywearer and babywearing educator. It is based on what I know and what I have been taught about basic newborn, infant and adult physiology and it is what I BELIEVE  are best practices when it comes to babywearing. Some will disagree with me and say that because there is no hard and fast peer-reviewed research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are home.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two full weeks in and it is official. We made cookies. Click here for the awesome recipe we used and yes, I have Appletini colored countertops! We organized the new Play Room! STUVA system from IKEA. We christened the new appliances! (Not like THAT! Minds out of the gutters Mamas!) Little C has taken it upon himself to be my official laundry sorter. (I win!!) AND I may be slightly in love with both my new washer/dryer and also having my laundry room on the main floor! We walk the dog HERE every day! This is literally steps from our front door. Ravine living FTW!! And we flipped the switch and had our first evening by the very modern fireplace. THIS is our home! Our beautiful, dream come true, Natural Urban Home! Natasha~ &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a lazy breastfeeder.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.naturalurbanmamas.com/?p=3480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have something to confess. I am a lazy, lazy breastfeeding mama. Case in point. My three and a half-year old daughter still nurses at night. Which means 2-3 times a night she gets out of her bed, walks to our room, crawls in to bed with me and nurses for anywhere from 1 minute to 30 minutes depending on how sleepy I am. And since I am usually quite sleepy, it&#8217;s closer to the half hour mark than not. I know she doesn&#8217;t &#8220;need&#8221; to nurse at this time, I know I &#8220;should&#8221; have night-weaned her months/years ago, but I didn&#8217;t. Oh, I have tried, more than a few times, really I have, but two happy sleeping people always seemed to be more important to me than one crying and then fitfully sleeping baby and one miserable mama. I am also quite the lazy breastfeeder in other ways. If Princess L gets hurt, either physically or emotionally, the quickest way to soothe her is with a quick pit-stop at the boob. If she is bored, she will come over, tell me I smell like &#8220;boobie-breasts&#8221; and ask if she can nurse. 95.7% of the time I will oblige her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The case of the tiny little IUD vs Natural Urban Mama.</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.naturalurbanmamas.com/2012/04/21/the-case-of-the-tiny-little-iud-vs-natural-urban-mama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natural Urban Mama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had more than a few &#8216;foreign&#8217; materials in my body over the years. I have titanium hip joints and polyethylene and ceramic hip sockets. I have had surgical steel rings pierced in my belly button and various parts of my ears. And up until 6 weeks ago I had a tiny little T-shaped polyethylene and hormone-filled device in my uterus. Yes, I am talking about the ever popular intrauterine device known as Mirena. Three and a half years ago, after Princess L was born and we were pretty darn sure that we did not want anymore babies, this seemed like a really great birth control option. Easy office appointment to have it put in place, minimal side effects (more on this in a bit), safe to use while breastfeeding and no need to even THINK about having an oops baby for at least 5 years. What was not to like about it? So in I went to get it inserted and off I went on my merry way, having glorious birth-controlled sex with my husband for the next three years without a care in the world. (Uhm, do not try to confirm this with him, his version MAY be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>too much</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natural Urban Mama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that time when I wanted to be all smart and political and help inform my fellow mamas about the upcoming election? AND I was moving into the Natural Urban Home that very same weekend? Yeah&#8230; I did that. And now I  have completely overextended myself. This move has been tough. I have been physically and emotionally exhausted every day this week and there is still so much to do to get us completely settled in the house. AND there are still a fair amount of outstanding projects that need completing in and around the house that I have to either supervise or be on hand for as well this coming week. So I must apologize to all of you for promising more than I can deliver right now. I just can&#8217;t research and write the posts about the parties and their platforms. If we had another month and not just a week before the Alberta provincial election, it would be doable, but I just can&#8217;t deliver the caliber of post and information that I would want to (and that you deserve) given the time frame and my state of physical and mental ability! It is now 10:41 PM on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alberta votes. What are the issues that affect you and your family?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natural Urban Mama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year during the Canadian federal election I really wanted to explore the different political parties and their platforms and find out where I stood, you know&#8230; politically speaking. This is often a tough thing to do during an election with &#8216;propaganda&#8217; and agendas coming at you from all angles. And then a Canadian blogger that I hold in very high regard did something wonderful. She took a good hard look at all the parties, read their platforms extensively and posted a synopsis of each on her blog. I can honestly say that I ended up making my decision based a lot on the information that Annie at Phd in Parenting posted on her site about the parties and their platforms as they related to families, parenting and women&#8217;s issues. And so, in an effort to suss out again where I stand at a provincial political  level, I am going to attempt to do something that is way out of my comfort zone, but that I think is vitally important right now. I am going to try to be &#8216;Annie&#8217; for the 2012 Alberta Elections and for all of you! As you know, on March 26th, the provincial election was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>48 hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natural Urban Mama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In less than 48 hours we will be moving into the Natural Urban Home. Yes, yes, I know, it&#8217;s all I am talking about lately, but I am getting excited. Kinda. I am also THE BIGGEST ball of stress and anxiety, that it is not even funny! Over the last few weeks I have managed to put myself into a full-fledged RA flare AND give myself what I think are the beginnings of a stomach ulcer. TUMS and my anti-inflammatory medications are my very good friends this week. The last time we moved, Little C was 6 months old. He didn&#8217;t care what was going on and was content to just be worn in a carrier while I packed up our little house. And it was June. Today I woke up to this&#8230;. Mother Nature is playing a cruel, cruel, four days late, April Fool&#8217;s  joke on me! I am not impressed lady! And my poor children. This time around, at 5 and 3.5 years old, they DO care about what is going on and are a lot more sensitive to the whole process. Now, this is not to say that they are not excited, they really are, but they [...]]]></description>
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