Parental Evolution

One of the hardest things about parenting is that when you are a parent you  constantly have to change your parenting to suit your child’s growing needs.  And it’s not always apparent that the needs have changed until things start getting out of hand! When an infant cries it’s because they have a need.  They [...]

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Turning off the TV

When Svara was a baby she never watched TV.  We didn’t own any baby video DVDs.  Until she was 2 she almost never watched TV.  A home video here and there, that’s about it.  But when she turned two we started letting her watch a video here and there.  She loved Nemo.  She started to [...]

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Homeopathy to the Rescue Once Again!

Oh homeopathy, how I thank you for saving us yet again. On the day that we arrived back in Malaysia Svara banged her head on the corner of our night table (usually not in a place where she can hit her head, but our bed broke) and she got a little cut on her head.  [...]

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World Breastfeeding Week

I was browsing through some blogs today and accidentally found out that it is world breastfeeding week!  So to honor the occasion, I just wanted to shout it out from my little corner of the blogosphere. Although breastfeeding is nature’s way of feeding your baby,  is the number one purpose of women’s breasts, and that [...]

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My sly little girl

In the past few weeks Svara has started something new.  It began when we got a new spray hose in the downstairs bathroom.  It is within Svara’s reach as she’s sitting on the toilet.  If I put her on the toilet and leave the bathroom I can hear her pressing the lever which sprays the [...]

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The Right One

As parents we can spend a lot of time picking “the right one”.  The right food, the right clothes, the right toys, the right diapers, the list just goes on and on.  One of the things that I”ve had the most trouble picking the right one of is detergent.  Seems simple, but when you use [...]

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Child Led Weaning and Hitting

When Svara was a baby , or maybe it was even while I was pregnant, I heard about child led weaning and I thought it was a nice concept.  Over time your small child would nurse less frequently, you don’t offer to nurse, but neither do you refuse, and eventually your child will wean him/herself [...]

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Night Weaning

I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been trying to night wean Svara.  We did pretty well for awhile and then we finally got into a rhythm where she’d nurse before bed, and then not nurse again until 5 or 6 in the morning. Then about 3 weeks ago she started teething again (her fourth eye tooth) [...]

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Deception

Sometimes I wish I lived in the future.  It seems that so many things are up in the air about what’s good for you, what’s bad for you, what’s dangerous and what’s safe.  I’m sure there will always be problems like that, but sometimes it all seems a bit much to deal with.  When it [...]

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Night Weaning

Many moons  ago I had no idea that I’d be in the process of night weaning Svara at this point.  I thought I’d have finished with that by the time she was a year old!  But I’ve learned a lot since then.  When I was working she was on a pretty strict nursing schedule at [...]

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