This is where the real action happens and when most dads experience their transformation of becoming a father. I remember being a little kid and my dad telling me about when I was born. His face was full of amazement as he recalled my birth. Most of the dads I talk to share a similar feeling while describing the birth of their children. Even for the toughest pregnancies and births, dads recount sublimely wonderful moments of holding their children for the first time. Quite a bit has changed since our...
Dads At the Core of the Experience: Part 1 – Pregnancy
“In this postmodern era, we have gone beyond the unconscious, anesthetized births of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the systematic elimination of lay midwifery, the demise of breastfeeding, and even ‘natural childbirth’ to an enormous range of options and historical shifts. These include the presence and active involvement of fathers during pregnancy and at birth.” (Davis-Floyd & Sargent, 1997) Women are...
Body Modifications and Breastfeeding: What You Need to Know
Body Modifications are a group of practices that include branding, scarification, tattooing, piercing, and other body art. Body modifications have been around nearly as long as breastfeeding. Archaeologists, historians and body art practitioners note that tattooing and body piercing have been performed, in one form or another, worldwide for over 5000 years. However, within the last 20-30 years body modifications...
Breastfeeding in The Military and Other Non-Traditional Workplaces
When I work with mothers that are serving in the military, I hear time after time about the many challenges that they face from the moment the pregnancy test comes back positive to when they finally ‘hang up the horns’ from pumping. Some of these obstacles are what any employed mother might face, but others are definitely unique to the...
Saving More: Budget-Friendly Cloth Diapering
My husband Evan and I welcomed our first child, Liam, in November of 2009, one of the first parenting decisions we made was to use cloth diapers. Evan and I are known among our friends and family as champion penny-pinchers, so our decision was no surprise to anyone. To diaper a baby from birth to potty training, it costs approximately...
