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Books on Raising Children

There seem to be as many philosophies about how to bring up children successfully as there are parents, which fact you tend not to discover until you are a parent yourself. And then you have to hope that your philosophy is reasonably congruent with that of the other parent and/or caregivers in your child’s [...]

Coping with Pregnancy

I found a couple of things very useful for my second pregnancy that I didn’t discover for my first - and thought I should blog them in case they’re useful to anybody else. I’m sure any readers with other ideas will add them - I’ll do another post in a bit about some early babyhood [...]

Bootees

I was a few months pregnant when Tim asked when I was going to knit some bootees (aka booties) for the baby. I wondered why he hadn’t asked for the first child, he answered that he hadn’t known I could knit back then. Fair enough.
So I got some yarn in time for the trip to [...]

Liberty Baby

The Liberty Alliance quarterly sponsors meeting was in Vancouver this week, so even though I’m still officially on maternity leave, I decided to attend as much as I could (baby allowing). It was worthwhile going, the baby was a little fussy but slept through enough of the time that I could take part in some [...]

Slow Learning

Having a newborn is a lesson in many things - in fact, one could probably write one of those “Everything I Needed to Know About ABC I Learned From DEF” (try typing that into Amazon, there are some interesting titles in the results that show up, including “Everything I Needed to Know about Business– I [...]

Recovering

Those not interested in pregnancy-related musings should skip this post…