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Pancakes: fluffy, quick and vegan
We completely weaned SJ from breasteeding about a month a half ago. My goal was for us to go for 2 years and I’m over the moon that we made it. It was a bit emotional to end it, but it just became to...
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Overcoming second pregnancy blues
Here I am 7 months into this pregnancy and only now blogging about it. It’s been a complicated past 5 months since we learned we were expecting. And, I’m ready to start blogging about it. First off,...
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Real Baby or Food Baby?
I wish there were some soppy romantic story behind the conception of the baby due in January. All I know is that I had a great spring: presented at a conference for the first time, was pampered for...
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Sins of the mother
I gave birth to our second child almost five weeks ago now. He’s an absolute gem. If we weren’t so paranoid about child abductors and internet weirdos, both his and SJ’s photos would be plastered all...
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Maybe I do have allergies
This weekend, I had the opportunity to visit with one of my favorite families. They, too, welcomed a second baby boy into their family recently. He was doing his newborn sleep all day thing, so I...
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Is home birth safe for Black women?
To be clear, I am a home birthing mama and wouldn’t have it any other way…unless it involved some amazing tropic setting, ocean water and Sweet Honey in the Rock singing me through my labor. For sure,...
View ArticleMy Favorite Lullaby Songs
One of the things I know I’ve done right in parenting is singing to the children during bedtime. It’s enjoyable for me to do and it’s also like encoding them with a go-to-sleep command when cued. SJ is...
View ArticleLetter to that shaming gynecologist
Dear Dr. Tummings, Today is my son’s 3rd birthday, which means that it’s been almost four years that I’ve neglected to write you this letter. For about four years before he was born, you were my...
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Soultanicals: Amazing natural hair products for children
If you haven’t yet heard about Soultanicals natural hair and body products, you’re missing out! Please rectify that, post-haste. I’ve been Facebook friends with the owner of Soultanicals, Ayo...
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{UPDATED} The TMI Post or The Art of A Natural Period
This post originally ran on January 2, 2012. Be warned that this will be a TMI (too much information) post, including talk of ladyparts in general, and mine in particular. I haven’t yet posted about...
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