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Milk Sharing: Mother to Mother Breastmilk Donation

September 29, 2012 By Deena 1 Comment

So it’s World Milk Sharing Week, and I’m participating in the blog carnival. I talk about Milk Sharing in my Breastfeeding Essentials class.  In class, I also handout a resource sheet on breastfeeding, the links to the Milk Sharing information are on the handout as well as on the Resources tab here, on the website. For […]

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Birth, Blog Carnival, Bottle Feeding, breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Essentials Class, Breastmilk, Childbirth Education Classes, Choice, Decision making, Pittsburgh, Pumping, World Milk Sharing Week

Tuesday Inspirations #5

July 3, 2012 By Deena Leave a Comment

  “Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers; strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.” ~ Barbara Katz Rothman

Filed Under: Inspirations, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Birth, breastfeeding, Inspirational Pregnancy and Birth Quotes, Motherhood, Mothers, Pittsburgh, Strength

Flying the Friendly Skies, with No Maternity Leave Policy

June 30, 2012 By Deena 5 Comments

Last week, I took my kids (sans husband) to Los Angeles to visit family. Our first flight was a puddle jumper from Pittsburgh to Cleveland, from there on to LA. That itty bitty plane had just one wonderfully attentive flight attendant. Her name was Marie and she was from Haiti. Marie took a liking to […]

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Birth, breastfeeding, Breastfeeding policies, Childbirth, Fathers, FMLA, Maternity Leave, Motherhood, Mothers, Paternity Leave, Pittsburgh, Pregnancy

Adding Fuel to the Mommy Wars Fire: Breastfeeding a 3 yr old on the cover of TIME Magazine

May 11, 2012 By Deena 2 Comments

Big win for the TIME Magazine marketing machine, this week. With their new cover, they’ve generated a ton of buzz online.  Much conversation has been had and is being continued.  Kudos to their marketing team – they did it, got us all talking… “Are you mom enough?” asks the cover of this week’s TIME Magazine […]

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: "Mommy Wars", AAP, breastfeeding, Decision making, Media, Parenting, Pittsburgh, WHO

Prenatal Yoga, Weird Baby Products and more on Science & Sensibility.

March 6, 2012 By Deena Leave a Comment

So, where have my blog posts been for February?  I was invited by Kimmelin Hull and Linda Harmon to be the guest community manager over on Science & Sensibility.  I took the honor with much enthusiasm as I wrote my own pieces and highlighted the works of others.  The pieces I wrote are listed and […]

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: AAP, breastfeeding, Breathing, Homebirth, Lamaze, Meditation, Prenatal Yoga, Relaxation, Science & Sensibility, yoga

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