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Recent Posts

• Nursing School: Eat That Elephant
• Joy’s Top Ten Most Read Posts of 2013
• Our Green Acre Giveaway! And Awkward High School Stories & Pictures
• Where Have I Been And Why Have I Been Away So Long?
• Birth Sensations & Protecting The Perineum Through It All
• A Letter To My Daughter On Her 4th Birthday
• Dear Mommy Blogger: Your Perfection Makes Me Distrust You
• The Best Parenting Advice I Ever Received Wasn’t Spoken
• 10 Ways To Feel Miserable As A Parent
• Mother-Led Weaning: How and Why I Gently Weaned My Son
• The Birth Interview Project Returns
• How I Learned to Support A Mother’s Choice Not To Breastfeed
• Parenting Tips Shared on Facebook and The Implosion of a Million Emotions
• The Birth of A Mother Quote
• Writer’s Block & What The Newtown Tragedy Taught Me About Love
• How I Survived Babydom | 17 Must-Have Baby Items
• I Didn’t Have A Voice
• Facts on Postpartum Depression and My Responsibility as a Childbirth Educator
• A Painful Childhood Memory Casts Light on My Quest As a Mother
• A Letter to My Daughter on the First Day of Preschool and Her First Interview