Blogs Posts on "Parenting Choices"

Still loving. by Becoming Sarah on Nov 13, 2009I think I’ve mentioned before a time or two or five hundred that we cloth diaper. And I love it, I really do. But here’s the thing. Although our cloth diapers all seem to effectively contain explosive blowout diapers, we...

Bow before me, for I ramble. by Becoming Sarah on Nov 11, 2009Donald and I carry our baby all the time. Everywhere. Always. Before I gave birth, I had a name for parents like us. Weird-ass parents who bought into that whole newfangled baby-carrying nonsense and refused to use a stroller like...

From your mother, the bearer of the milk-stuff. by Becoming Sarah on Nov 5, 2009Dear Charlotte, For a natural, biological act, breastfeeding sure took an ass-load of effort. It will never cease to amaze me that the human species exists at all given how difficult and agonizing breastfeeding was in the beginning. The truth...

Moby wrap. by Becoming Sarah on Nov 4, 2009I have to admit that I was not really sold on the idea of the wrap at first. When it arrived in the mail, I took it out of its package and looked at the booklet and was like YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. And when Charlotte was first born...

My boobies need to go night-night too. by Becoming Sarah on Nov 4, 2009No amount of scratching our heads has revealed to either Donald or I why Charlotte stopped sleeping through the night. She was snoozing nine, ten, sometimes eleven or twelve hours a pop and all was well in the world and then BAM! overnight ever...

Daily walk. by Becoming Sarah on Oct 23, 2009It used to be that when we took our afternoon walk, I snapped about fifty billion pictures of Hank. Look at Hank running! Look at Hank running some more! Look at Hank sniffing that other dog’s butt! After the baby was born, t...

Sarah the Milk Goddess.  Not the Sleep Goddess. by Becoming Sarah on Oct 13, 2009As a nursing mother, I have run into two HUGE problems with sleeping. The first problem obviously concerns my boobs. I may have mentioned this once or twice or ten billion times, but I produce too much milk. I am a one-woman dairy. ...

Happenings: Cherished and forgettable. by Becoming Sarah on Oct 3, 2009For awhile, I lost the camera that I was using to take simple daily snapshots of our lives. Since I rediscovered it this past week in a drawer, I thought it was time for the next chapter of those twinkling, trivial, fantastic moments that have...