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The random musings of a vegan, breastfeeding, babywearing, co-sleeping, kinda-hippie, stay-at-home mammy with her feet in Ireland and her head in the clouds.

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• It’s Nestlé-Free Week, join in!

  Posted on Saturday October 4th, 2008 at 16:12 in babies, baby milk action, boycott nestle, breastfeeding, children, family, food & drink, health, international-nestle-free-week, Ireland, nestle, nestle-free

  It’s the start of Nestlé-Free week (see I told you October was a busy month), and today marks the 20th anniversary of the most recent incarnation of the Nestlé boycott. So, what is Nestlé-Fr...

• Upcoming Blog Carnival at API Speaks

  Posted on Thursday October 2nd, 2008 at 09:42 in api-speaks, attachment parenting, attachment-parenting-month, babies, babywearing, blog-carnival, breastfeeding, children, co-sleeping, family, mothering, parenting

  October is such a busy month in the blogosphere! API launched Attachment Parenting Month yesterday, the theme this year is “Giving our Children Presence”. Children thrive in the presence o...

• TheBreastWay launches today!

  Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 08:39 in babies, beautiful-breastfeeding, breast feeding, breastfeeding, breastway, children, family, health, Ireland, lactivism, mothering, national-breastfeeding-week

  Oct 1st marks the start of National Breastfeeding Week 2008 here in Ireland. It is also the launch date for a brand new mum-run breastfeeding support site called TheBreastWay.ie. This site has been se...

• First crypto, now lead in Galway’s water!

  Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 04:34 in babies, breastfeeding, children, environment, family, galway, health, Ireland, lead, mothering, parenting, pregnancy

  So, last year Galway spent 158 days without clean drinking water due to Cryptosporidium parasites and this year we have…. lead! It’s to do with lead piping in old houses and they have no i...

• Control or the lack thereof

  Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 01:00 in api-speaks, attachment parenting, babies, babywearing, breastfeeding, children, co-sleeping, family, mothering, parenting, pregnancy, SAHM

  My latest post for API Speaks, inspired by my recent menu planning… I’ve always liked to feel in control of my life. In my pre-baby days (back in the mists of time) I used to work full time in...

• FSAI’s response to my Cow & Gate complaint

  Posted on Wednesday September 17th, 2008 at 13:29 in Advertising, babies, baby milk action, breastfeeding, children, cow-and-gate, family, formula-advertising, general musings, health, ibfan, Ireland

  I got a reply from the FSAI (Food Safety Authority of Ireland) today to my recent Cow & Gate complaint. And just in case I felt even a little bit special and listened-to, I soon discovered that ma...

• AIMS Ireland - Family fun in Galway!

  Posted on Tuesday September 16th, 2008 at 16:14 in aims-ireland, attachment parenting, babies, birth, childbirth, children, family, galway, general musings, health, Ireland, maternity

  A quick reminder to anyone who will be wandering around Galway on Saturday with their little’uns. AIMS Ireland is hosting their First Annual Family Day in the Galway Museum from 1-4pm on Saturda...

• Nestle & Childline - some ponderings

  Posted on Saturday September 13th, 2008 at 17:37 in Advertising, babies, baby milk action, boycott nestle, breastfeeding, children, environment, family, food & drink, general musings, health, international-nestle-free-week

  I was wandering around Rollercoaster today, you remember them, the Irish forum that had their mums2be area sponsored by SMA and that frequently hosts dubious formula ads, like the Cow & Gate ones ...

• They’re at it again

  Posted on Saturday September 6th, 2008 at 16:23 in Advertising, babies, baby milk action, breastfeeding, children, cow-and-gate, family, formula-advertising, general musings, ibfan, Ireland, lactivism

  I’m sure most of you folks in the UK & Ireland have seen Cow & Gate’s latest tv advertisement with the laughing babies. It’s on YouTube if you haven’t (is everything in...

• Pretty Boo-boos

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 07:38 in attachment parenting, babies, breast feeding, breastfeeding, children, family, mothering, parenting, SAHM, toddler

  Do you and your nursling have a codeword for nursing or breasts? A lot of people mentioned to me that if I was planning to nurse Littlepixie for a few years it might be worthwhile choosing a non-descr...

• We have a cold & a new sling!

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 06:51 in attachment parenting, babies, babywearing, children, family, manduca, mothering, parenting, pregnancy, SAHM, sling, slings

  Myself & Littlepixie are housebound with colds at the moment, but the lovely postie-man called this morning with a package for us. Yes, I bought another sling. In my defense though, I am neither a...

• Labor Day labour meme

  Posted on Monday September 1st, 2008 at 16:17 in active-birth, babies, childbirth, children, family, Ireland, labour, memes, mothering, parenting, pregnancy

  So, it’s Labor Day in the US and Rocks in my Dryer is hosting a labour meme (yes I’m spelling it the American way for their holiday but my way for all the rest of the mentions!). I thought...

• Gurls & boys

  Posted on Monday September 1st, 2008 at 07:32 in babies, children, family, mothering, parenting, SAHM, toddler

  Littlepixie has in the last few weeks become very interested in announcing people’s gender. She will wander around the house singing “Mama a gurl, Dada a boys, LP a gurl” (although o...

• A little kitchen affirmation

  Posted on Friday August 29th, 2008 at 10:14 in affirmation, attachment parenting, babies, breastfeeding, children, cleaning, crafts, family, general musings, household, Housekeeping, mothering

  My house is still a mess (although a big thanks to Mr. HPP for loading the dishwasher some time in the middle of last night!) so I spent a few minutes this morning making myself a little affirmation c...

• Up All Night!

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 23:28 in api-speaks, attachment parenting, babies, breastfeeding, children, co-sleeping, family, mothering, parenting, SAHM, sleep, toddler

  My latest post for API Speaks, hope you all enjoy my sleepy tale… Excuse me if this post is rambling, it’s written by a very tired mammy. One who only went to bed at half 4 this morning and wh...

• I must….

  Posted on Wednesday August 27th, 2008 at 06:50 in attachment parenting, babies, children, cleaning, family, household, Housekeeping, mothering, parenting, SAHM, toddler

  I must….. Clean my house Clean my house Clean my house But not right now, Littlepixie is napping in my arms, and I’ll share this beautiful poem that dear Isil emailed to me many moons ag...

• Blog Carnival : A Day in the life of YOU!

  Posted on Monday August 25th, 2008 at 03:16 in a-day-in-the-life, attachment parenting, babies, babywearing, blog-carnival, blogstuff, breastfeeding, children, co-sleeping, family, general musings, mothering

  It’s Monday morning and it’s time for the Blog Carnival. It’s my first time hosting one, so let’s hope everyone has a good time. The theme is “A day in the life of YOU...

• An expedition to the back of the freezer

  Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 17:23 in babies, breastfeeding, children, family, mothering, parenting, toddler

  I just excavated two bottles of frozen breastmilk from the back of our freezer. They’re dated. And the date is over a year ago. Oops. I do tend to clean out the freezer more than once a year, bu...

• Upcoming Blog Carnival: A Day in the life of YOU!

  Posted on Tuesday August 19th, 2008 at 07:37 in attachment parenting, babies, babywearing, blog-carnival, blogstuff, breastfeeding, children, co-sleeping, family, general musings, mothering, parenting

  Littlepixie rose bright eyed and bushy tailed at 03:00 this morning. Wonderful. In the sleepless hours that followed I had an idea. Some of the comments left after yesterday’s “twittery...

• API Speaks

  Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 07:49 in api-speaks, attachment parenting, babies, babywearing, breastfeeding, children, family, mothering, parenting, toddler

  Today marks the first day of my adventures as a Contributing Editor over at API Speaks, sounds very important and exciting doesn’t it?  I’ll be moderating all this week over there so I in...

• Why do I read this stuff?

  Posted on Friday August 8th, 2008 at 03:35 in attachment parenting, babies, children, co-sleeping, cosleeping, family, family-bed, mothering, parenting, toddler

  Browsing through an Irish parenting forum today, I was saddened by some of the responses to a question about moving your newborn straight into their own room. One poster even said “If you have a...

• World Breastfeeding Week 2008

  Posted on Sunday August 3rd, 2008 at 05:10 in attachment parenting, babies, breast feeding, breastfeeding, children, Ireland, lactivism, mothering, parenting, pregnancy, SAHM, toddler

  It’s World Breastfeeding Week from the 1st-7th August, and the theme this year is “Mother Support: Going for the Gold“. From the WBW site: Breastfeeding results from a reproductive h...

• Veganism & Attachment Parenting

  Posted on Friday August 1st, 2008 at 06:37 in attachment parenting, babies, breastfeeding, children, mothering, parenting, pregnancy, vegan, vegetarian

  I know there are a good few vegan AP mums who visit here, and I’m sure you probably also read Crunchy Domestic Goddess. But just in case you haven’t been there recently, Amy is on holidays...

• Happy happy bloggiversary to me!

  Posted on Wednesday July 23rd, 2008 at 16:58 in attachment parenting, babies, babywearing, blog-stuff, bloggiversary, breastfeeding, children, general musings, mothering, parenting, toddler, vegan

  Yay, here I am back in the land of broadband! That break hurt my brain, and my wallet, mobile phone web surfing is certainly not cheap! I missed my little online village so I’m going to be stal...

• Giggle…

  Posted on Wednesday June 18th, 2008 at 12:12 in babies, breastfeeding, mothering

  While browsing the Breastfeeding forum at MDC today, the following google ad caught my eye: Tee hee… not quite sure if that’s exactly the type of pump nursing mums are looking for, but th...

• Any Changes?

  Posted on Thursday June 5th, 2008 at 13:55 in attachment parenting, babies, babywearing, blogstuff, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, general musings, Green Living, Housekeeping, Ireland, mothering, SAHM

  Today I’ve been inspired by Danielle at New Mommy Rant to continue my virtual housekeeping. I checked for and repaired deadlinks 2 weeks ago so they should be grand, I still have to divide my bl...

• Breastfeeding imagery - a collection

  Posted on Wednesday June 4th, 2008 at 05:36 in attachment parenting, babies, breast feeding, breastfeeding, lactivism, mothering, nursing, pregnancy, toddler

  I’ve been following a thread on MDC where people have been adding links to their favourite breastfeeding images, be they photos, paintings, sketches, statues, advertisements, public awareness ca...

• Fathers and AP

  Posted on Tuesday June 3rd, 2008 at 15:16 in api-speaks, attachment parenting, babies, breast feeding, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, cosleeping, mothering, pregnancy, toddler

  My latest post for API Speaks, this one’s for all the wonderful dads! I’ve been thinking recently about how important Attachment Parenting is to fathers. Many men seem to feel helpless an...

• Show and Tell - Sling Style

  Posted on Tuesday May 27th, 2008 at 14:34 in attachment parenting, babies, baby-carriers, babywearing, mei-tai, mothering, SAHM, sling, taitasi, tettitett, toddler

  Steph over at Adventures in Babywearing is hosting a little mini-carnival to let everyone share their slings! Littlepixie is getting heavy and prefers to run around now so I don’t use mine as mu...

• Calling all Irish breastfeeding mums!

  Posted on Saturday May 24th, 2008 at 04:30 in babies, breast feeding, breastfeeding, general musings, human-milk-bank, human-milk-donation, Ireland, lactation, lactivism, milk bank, mothering, necrotizing-enterocolitis

  The human milk bank in Fermanagh urgently needs more donors, especially from the Republic of Ireland. You may recall that my first post was about our milk bank. Well, yesterday Tanya Cassidy left a co...