I have lately become concerned about plastic water bottles after reading the studies about plastic leaching chemicals into water. I have been on a search for a lunchbox sized water bottle that is inexpensive since my boys frequently lose things or break them. I was doing a search for bpa free bottles and found a site where someone suggested using medela bottles, which have always been bpa free, in the kids' lunchbox. I have tons of these bottles, woo-hoo!
http://medelabreastfeedingus.com/site-notice
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Contest for 12 bum genius diapers
http://babycheapskate.blogspot.com/2008/07/giveaway-12-bumgenius-30-diapers.html
Click on link for contest entry to win 12 bum genius diapers.
Click on link for contest entry to win 12 bum genius diapers.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
When will it end?
My back aches, I waddle when I walk, have contractions every day, but none are consistent. When will it end? I am reaching nearer to my due date and getting very anxious. I did a ton of laundry today and vacuumed, does that mean I am nesting? Sometimes I wish you could just know, when will this baby come out? I guess that is part of the big mystery. We don't know if this baby is a boy or girl, nor when it will join us out of the womb.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
New Blog giveaway for an adorable nursing cover
This site has adorable stuff, lots made with Amy Butler fabrics. They are giving away an adorable nursing cover. Just leave a comment on the blog to enter. Contest ends April 25th. http://emileeandgrace.blogspot.com/2008/04/bloggy-carnivals-giveaway.html
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Diapers.com
I have a new deal for you. Diapers.com has lots of great baby things, including the Bum genius 3.0 cloth diapers. By using my Referral Code any new customers who enter the code JXSA6306 when placing their first order at Diapers.com will get $5 off their first order. They also have free shipping on orders over $49. You can even sign up for your own referral code. They have all kinds of baby product and they take manufacturer's coupons!
Check it out at diapers.com
Check it out at diapers.com
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Earth Hour
I have failed as a cheapgreenmama to let my readers know about Earth Hour. It was from 8-9 P.M. last night. Cities all over the world turned off the lights for one hour. I turned off all the lights in my house and took a bath by candlelight. It was awesome! It saved money and the environment all over the planet! Cool!
Here's some links to the website: http://www3.earthhourus.org/
Here's some links to the website: http://www3.earthhourus.org/
The Birthing Dilemma
I finally decided that this baby was going to come out of this belly sooner or later and I better start reading up on the process of childbirth again (it has been over 5 years since the last one exited). Maybe it was a mistake, I don't know, but now I have been reading all these natural childbirth books and I am really seeing some truth to them (and wishing I had looked into it sooner).
It is amazing to read about women who have had home births and water births and what awesome experiences they had without the constant monitoring and medical intervention. I will admit, I used to think that it was totally wacko to do the natural thing! But after reading about women that did it the way God made them to do it, with the God given hormones that God gave us to cope with labor, I may be a wacko too. The pain has a purpose, to get the baby out of the womb into life. If I had looked into this sooner, I might be having a home water birth.
I don't want anyone who had a c-section (or an epidural) to think that what they did was wrong. Many women I know were happy they had c-sections (and epidurals), especially in a life threatening (or painful and long labor) situation. Yet, I also know and read about women who felt they could have given birth vaginally, were given the c-section and were traumatized, or had a horrible experience with an epidural. Obviously, there are times when medical interventions are necessary, but sadly it seems that a lot of doctors do c-sections for non emergency reasons.
I am seriously considering hiring a doula (even though my insurance won't pay). A doula is "an experienced, non-medical assistant who provides physical, emotional and informed choice support in prenatal care, during childbirth and during the postpartum period. A birth doula is a continuous care provider for labor in many settings, also assisting the parturient woman during transport from home to hospital or birth center." (copied from Wilkipedia)
I feel like a doula is my best bet for helping me have a natural birth at a hospital, where medication is readily available. Doulas can "go to bat" with the hospital and medical providers to avoid unnecessary medical interventions, while also encouraging someone in labor. I learned through reading that many things I was given in my two previous births actually made my labor more difficult (such as pitocin) and made drugs more likely (which I had both times). I also learned that women's bodies naturally know what to do to give birth. When drugs are used to speed up labor (or prevent pain), some of the natural hormones that help with pain and laboring are blocked, which can affect the process of bonding with the baby. Hospitals, sadly, are so worried about things going wrong (ie a lawsuit) that they have so many rules and want to speed things up or medicate, that it has turned birth into a medical condition instead of something normal that God designed for women to be able to do.
Here's some of the books I recommend reading to be better informed about birth choices: Creating Your Birth Plan, Mardsen Wagner; The Official Lamaze Guide, Judith Lothian and Charlotte DeVries; Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Ina May Gaskin; Gentle Birth Choices, Barbara Harper. I found these all at my local library.
It is amazing to read about women who have had home births and water births and what awesome experiences they had without the constant monitoring and medical intervention. I will admit, I used to think that it was totally wacko to do the natural thing! But after reading about women that did it the way God made them to do it, with the God given hormones that God gave us to cope with labor, I may be a wacko too. The pain has a purpose, to get the baby out of the womb into life. If I had looked into this sooner, I might be having a home water birth.
I don't want anyone who had a c-section (or an epidural) to think that what they did was wrong. Many women I know were happy they had c-sections (and epidurals), especially in a life threatening (or painful and long labor) situation. Yet, I also know and read about women who felt they could have given birth vaginally, were given the c-section and were traumatized, or had a horrible experience with an epidural. Obviously, there are times when medical interventions are necessary, but sadly it seems that a lot of doctors do c-sections for non emergency reasons.
I am seriously considering hiring a doula (even though my insurance won't pay). A doula is "an experienced, non-medical assistant who provides physical, emotional and informed choice support in prenatal care, during childbirth and during the postpartum period. A birth doula is a continuous care provider for labor in many settings, also assisting the parturient woman during transport from home to hospital or birth center." (copied from Wilkipedia)
I feel like a doula is my best bet for helping me have a natural birth at a hospital, where medication is readily available. Doulas can "go to bat" with the hospital and medical providers to avoid unnecessary medical interventions, while also encouraging someone in labor. I learned through reading that many things I was given in my two previous births actually made my labor more difficult (such as pitocin) and made drugs more likely (which I had both times). I also learned that women's bodies naturally know what to do to give birth. When drugs are used to speed up labor (or prevent pain), some of the natural hormones that help with pain and laboring are blocked, which can affect the process of bonding with the baby. Hospitals, sadly, are so worried about things going wrong (ie a lawsuit) that they have so many rules and want to speed things up or medicate, that it has turned birth into a medical condition instead of something normal that God designed for women to be able to do.
Here's some of the books I recommend reading to be better informed about birth choices: Creating Your Birth Plan, Mardsen Wagner; The Official Lamaze Guide, Judith Lothian and Charlotte DeVries; Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Ina May Gaskin; Gentle Birth Choices, Barbara Harper. I found these all at my local library.
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