Motherhood
Posts related to raising children through their ages and stages
Newborn Survival Phase: 4 Things Large Family Moms Know
We are expecting our fifth child. This means we have been through the newborn survival phase 4 times and have chosen to enter it again. My body goes through nausea, weight gain, and incredible expansion. Nights are spent nursing and comforting a baby instead...
Unexpected Pregnancy and Unassisted Birth
This is a story about my experience with unassisted pregnancy and unassisted birth. But in order to do his story justice, I need to start months before he was even conceived. Right after my 3rd son turned two, I became pregnant. We were overjoyed as we had always...
Normalizing Birth for Children
My eldest son witnessed his first birth around 1.5 years old. He stood with his little rubber boots on the fence and held on to the cable and watched as the calf emerged, feet, then face, then a wet body slipping out onto the bedding pack. I'd like to say it was a...
The Explosive Child
By Ross W. Greene, Ph. D. I didn't even need to read the description of this book to know that it was one I needed to read. Since shortly after he was born, I have struggled to understand his communication style, love language, stressors etc. The first years of his...
How We Chose Meaningful Boy Names
I don't often (or maybe ever?) used my boys' real names on my blog because I don't need random passers-by to know all that information about my family. That being said, I promised Sue from Stories of an Unschooling Family over a year ago that I would, one day, tell...
Practical Mom Advice: Surviving the Motherhood Marathon
I cringed when he put on his pants backwards. Normally I wouldn't have said anything, but it was Sunday. So I gently asked him, "Your pants are on backwards. Can we turn them around?" "Sure," he responded cheerfully. I hesitated. Was this a trick? Was he going to...