Spit-up On My Shoulder

I love this excerpt from the Mother Nurture newsletter. Please do your best to nurture yourself during this crazy holiday season. I wish all the best to you and your family in the new year. Thank you for all your support throughout the year and for visiting my blog.
Melanie
Swimming Upstream
“When I think [...]

Check out this list of 92 (yes, 92!) ways for moms to save their sanity. The author is Carrie Todd, a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in therapy for new moms. Her office is in Benicia, California.
Carrie also has a newsletter for moms called Motherhood Muse. Go to this link [...]

Great info from Mother Nurture:
It’s common for a mom to be lying awake in bed while her baby or toddler is snoozing blissfully. Unfortunately, low quantity and poor quality (= depth) of sleep erode a mother’s health and well-being, and give her a strong shove down the slippery slope toward depression.
Getting plenty of good [...]

A Scientific American article published October 23rd links depression in pregnant women with premature births. According to the article, new research shows that “pregnant women with symptoms of depression are twice as likely to deliver their babies early as those who don’t show signs of sadness.”
Since it is estimated that more than 40 percent [...]

An article appeared in the Sacramento Bee yesterday, September 12th, that I wanted to share with you. It’s about 79-year-old nurse, Doris Wogec, who helps new moms learn to breastfeed.
Wogec could retire, but she continues to work because she loves it so much. If we could all be so lucky to [...]

From MomsRising.org:
Unlike the rest of the world, the United States doesn’t (yet!) have Paid Family and Medical Leave for all new mothers (which is paid time off after the birth of a baby). Without this kind of policy in place, situations like Selena’s, who gave birth on Thursday and was back at her desk [...]

Great article in the July 2008 issue of Parenting on why moms are at risk for eating disorders. If you have body issues or perfectionistic tendencies before becoming a mother, the pressure to be the “perfect mom” can push you into an eating disorder. Like postpartum depression, it can be an illness that [...]

An important message from MomsRising.org about car seats:
“I think back to all the times when my baby was teething or gnawing on the side of her car seat, and my heart sinks wondering about what her tiny body ingested.” –Bobbi (mother of a one year-old)
Can you believe it? A recent study conducted by the watchdog [...]

This Friday, May 23, I will be a guest on New Mom Central’s Blog Talk Radio Show. I hope you will listen in or call in with questions. Here is a promo for the show from Cheryl Wenzel-Nelson, the moderator of several blogs for mom, who will be interviewing me:
New Mom Central [...]

I love this list from Rick and Jan Hanson’s website, Nurture Mom, of ways dads can help mom out. Feel free to forward it to the dads in your life!
Top Ten list (in no particular order) of What Dad Can Do For Mom addressed to the father. Hopefully some of these suggestions will [...]