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Of Hormones, Motherhood, Weight Gain and Extended Breastfeeding
I’ve been quite a healthy eater for a long time. I eat real food and minimize my consumption of anything processed. I don’t even feed my 17 month old anything processed and we live on veggies, chicken,...
View ArticleThe Toddler Eats And Weaning Progress
It’s been awhile since I updated this blog on N’s meals and weaning status. Here is my last post on this series. This was when he was 14 months. Before this I wrote when he was 11 months, 8 and a half...
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Why The Paleo Diet Works
I’ve come a full circle with The Paleo Diet or the Primal Blueprint lifestyle. Like most people who embark on this journey I went all guns blazing for the first two years. Before I became Wholesome...
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Wholesome Mamma Turns One and Some News
This was my first post on this blog a year ago. At that time I was still heavily into eating clean, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, ensuring that I raise N eating only real food in a processed world...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Your Crying Baby
So I have been writing a blog about applying evolutionary principles to our modern lifestyles when it comes to food and exercise and now parenting. But the biggest case in point that differentiates how...
View ArticleWhat I Wish I Knew About Breastfeeding Before I Became A Mom
Breastfeeding is natural. It’s also one of the toughest tasks a new mom has to face. Why is something so natural so dam hard? The science and the evidence and clearly the physiological truth is that...
View ArticleMyths That Prevent Successful Breastfeeding
Looks like I am doing a breastfeeding series. Since I wrote this as a guest post on BabyChakra I am going to post this here too. Breastfeeding as we all know has tremendous advantages for the baby and...
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Extended Breastfeeding, Nutrition, Weight Gain, and a Holiday
This post on hormones and possible imbalances after nursing for many months has got a lot of hits ever since I posted it. It’s got me thinking that it seems to be a common problem for women who nurse...
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Traveling With a Nursing Toddler
We travelled with our 20 month old for three weeks. Our total flying time must have been over 45 hours and may I remind you that we have a toddler who isn’t like many. He is hyper, spirited, and a...
View ArticleIf I had a Second Baby
Let me start by saying that I have no regrets with stuff I did the first time round. I have learnt and changed so much. And that saying about: kids being the greatest teachers? Well that’s certainly...
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Medication and the Toddler
The toddler years pass by in a blur of colds, coughs, fevers, teething related ailments and other infections. There was a time (before I took control of my health) where I popped pills without thinking...
View ArticleWhat Gentle Weaning Looks Like
Many of us start off knowing we want to breastfeed. First we set ourselves the 6-month exclusive target, then one year, and then some of us go on and on. I found myself in a place where at 1 year...
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Sling Review – Anmol Handwoven Wrap
I get email almost every day asking me to review this and that. Unfortunately I don’t do reviews unless I use the product, as I don’t have the bandwidth. Just to fill you in, we’ve moved houses and had...
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My Home Birth Story (water birth)
Before I started writing this I gave a lot of thought to why I wanted to birth at home with my second baby. I don’t think I gave any thought to why when I made up my mind or during my pregnancy or any...
View ArticleLessons Learnt By A Second Time Mom
They say parenting the second time around is easier. There couldn’t be truer words spoken and the reason is you learn from your mistakes and change your ways. First time moms please learn from my...
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Breastfeeding: What A New Mamma Should Know
Happy Breastfeeding week! I wrote this article for this awesome breastfeeding ebook by Baby Chakra and you can access it here. Babies are hardwired to breastfeed at birth and a healthy mom who has...
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World Breastfeeding Week : Interview and photoshoot
When Tina Nandi Stephens from Born In Bombay birth photography said she wanted to do a breastfeeding photo shoot i immediately got in touch. I couldn’t think of a better way to talk about...
View ArticleHow To Survive The 4-Month Sleep Regression
My first son was sleeping quite well until we hit the 4 month mark. At that point of course I was clueless, had never heard about sleep regressions, and was frantically on Google and calling any...
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Beginning Baby Led Weaning
I have been thinking of starting baby led weaning with baby # 2 long before he was born. A few days before he turned 6 months and had been sitting independently for almost a month and a half I started...
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Baby Led Weaning – One Month In
Baby A turns 7 months old tomorrow. I am astonished at how well BLW is going for us. I cannot believe the way his poop is looking. I was quite content to wait for a few months before I saw food...
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