My Kate Middleton Pregnancy: Pregnant HG Life

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My Kate Middleton Pregnancy: Pregnant HG Life. By: New Crunchy Mom Rebecca Lemke I never expected to compare myself to Kate Middleton, but that is exactly what I did on a daily basis when I was pregnant with my son and suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum. What in the world is Hyperemesis Gravidarum, you ask? Well, it is the same thing … Read More

Does Food Choice Determine Quality of Breast Milk?

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Your Food Choices Don't Determine the Quality Of Your Breast Milk

Good News! Food Choice Doesn’t Determine the Quality of Breast Milk. Thank God, Because I love Cheeseburgers. An ad campaign in Brazil has set out to warn mothers about their food choices while breastfeeding. This new campaign is called “your child is what you eat.” The add depicts newborns nursing unhealthy food choices instead of mothers milk. While the intent of … Read More

Cesarean, Shame, and Healing

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Cesarean Birth, and Stories from Moms Who Experienced them. There is so much pressure put on mothers! We need to be perfect. We need to nurture perfectly, live perfectly, discipline perfectly, look perfect, act perfect, and we need to birth perfectly. Here are some stories from real women who have had a cesarean. These stories have taken an incredible amount of … Read More