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  • Roll With the Punches

    Dear Sons, You have taught me how to roll with the punches. How to accept broken things offered up with tears, and turn them into discussions that somehow make you at ease with their broken-ness, or even delighted with the… Continue reading

  • If You See This..

    If you see this you are now successfully accessing Nurshable.com on its new home on an all new spiffy server that hopefully will not be crashed by spikes in traffic. 🙂 This move has been made possible in part by… Continue reading

  • Not For Me, Not For You

    I’ve seen a trend lately of people getting agitated over articles discussing how you will absolutely positively harm your child by ________. Fill in the blank with pretty much everything imaginable and once you’ve filled in all the blanks go… Continue reading

  • I Am Not a Better Mother Than You.

    I am not a  better mother than you. I am not a worse mother than you. I am a different mother than you in some ways, and the same mother as you in others. We are different. We make different… Continue reading

  • A Heartfelt Thank You to Granola Babies

    I would like to say a heartfelt thank you to Granola Babies for sponsoring this blog by purchasing ad space on the sidebar. Please check out their site and support a mom-owned business that supports other moms in the community… Continue reading

  • This is Not About You

    Dear Children, I write you letters, but these letters are not about you as you are in the distant future, but what you are today and what I am today. I do not yet know who you will be, and… Continue reading

  • The WIO (Wait It Out) Method of Sleep Training

    (Please read this first: I Am Not A Better Mother Than You.) Dear Daughter, You are three months old, almost everyone agrees that you are too young for “sleep training”, “cry it out”, “Ferberization” and all those other methods of… Continue reading

  • What You Pump is What Baby Eats (Myth)

    Dear Daughter, One day you will be nursing your own child. One day you will inevitably be told that you should pump to see what your baby is getting from the breast. It will sound like very good advice. I… Continue reading

  • Little Pitchers Have Big Ears

    Dear Daughter, The things that we hear as children leave deep imprints in how we see the world as adults and sometimes for the test of our lives. We guard carefully the things that people have said about us. Both… Continue reading

  • Breastfeeding is Not Beautiful

    Dear Daughter, One day when you have children of your own, you’ll realize that breastfeeding isn’t beautiful. It’s a mix of many things. “Beautiful” is an over-simplification. Sometimes we’ll be sitting in the rocking chair together in the middle of… Continue reading