Category Archives: Feeding

Funny how we were talking about what picky eaters some of our kids are in the Toddler Meals thread yesterday. My husband and I were looking through pictures and videos tonight and found a classic one of our oldest son talking about the foods he likes and dislikes. Gotta love it!

I’ve been having issues from the get-go with breast feeding my new baby. A week and a half ago, I wrote about him being too lazy to eat – basically couldn’t latch on correctly and continuously falling asleep. We tried and tried and tried. I took him for his 2 week check up on Monday (which was really 16 days past birth) and sadly
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Ok this may sound silly, but I feel like I’m pulling out the big guns now, having to pack my 3-year-old’s lunch 4 times a week for school.  I never have a problem figuring out what to give him for lunch when we are home, but now that I have to think about it ahead of time and make sure that he’ll eat it,
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I just got a copy of the new book, The ABCs of Breastfeeding. Written by Stacey H. Rubin, an Advance Practice Registered Nurse and an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant, this is definitely one of those books that belongs on your shelves along side the The Nursing Mother’s Companion, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding and those other parenting bibles you so cherish! For the
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What else is new, right? Unfortunately, hearing about a woman being kicked out of somewhere for breast feeding is not such a rare headline. It makes me mad. Really mad. I don’t understand what the big flipping deal is and I will get to that in a minute, but before I go there, I need to ask…. are Americans too sue happy? Frankly I’m
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I got this recipe for Chicken Dijon from Deana at the hometalkers forums a while ago (parenthesis are her notes), but just recently tried it. It was a huge hit in my family. It’s so easy and the chicken cooks absolutely perfectly when prepared this way. Chicken Dijon 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts 4 “tubes” of string cheese 2 TBS dijon mustard (I sometimes
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If you are like most moms, at some point you have been faced with the problem of your child not liking or wanting to eat vegetables. My son goes through stages. At one point, he loved broccoli. He would eat an entire plate of steamed broccoli for dinner. Now he won’t touch it. His new thing is tomatoes, which he hated a few weeks
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