Nurshable

The Experience

  • Changes and Comics and Things

    Hi all, Just mentioning some changes I’ve made to the site recently. 1- Nurshable now has a facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/Nurshable feel free to stop in, post interesting links to the page, chat with others who parent in similar ways, seek… Continue reading

  • Pulled Under

    There is a photograph of me that I absolutely love. It is not a flattering one, but it is from a time when I was under pressure to always look appealing, a task I seldom lived up to. I’m crouching… Continue reading

  • Wrap Baby (WIO)

    I love wraps and babywearing because they put so much sleep related stuff under baby’s control. A baby in a wrap has supported independence. They are able to make choices about their comfort and are actively involved in how and… Continue reading

  • How I Wrap

    This is how I do a high/neat wrap. The key elements are: You want to only keep track of what touches your body- forget about the ends. If you focus on the full 5 or 6 yards of fabric you’ll… Continue reading

  • When You Were New

    Just after birth, they were constantly monitoring my blood pressure and pumping me full of pitocin after she was born, for fear of my losing more blood that I had already lost during the fourteen hours of labor which started… Continue reading

  • What Information are YOU Planning to Share With Your Daughters?

    I’ve been writing what I plan on sharing with my daughters. I’m curious what things other moms will be sharing with theirs. I love hearing what information people want to pass on to their children about breastfeeding and parenting. Continue reading

  • Baby Zombie at the Breast (My Third Breastfeeding Story)

    My third child was quite clearly a zombie baby. Born thickly covered in vernix and blood-splattered from the partial placental abruption that she caused by scraping past her low-laying anterior placenta as she prepared herself to be born. She came… Continue reading

  • And Then There was My Army Grunt (Second of Three Breastfeeding Stories)

    My second child came the night that I decided that I was probably never going to go into labor and that I was going to reabsorb the baby. He was two days overdue and instead of feeling “close” to giving… Continue reading

  • Learning to Breastfeed a Baby Dragon (One of three breastfeeding stories)

    My first child came after twenty-seven hours of labor and was born a slight shade of purple. My first thought upon seeing him as the doctor  held him up in front of me was that he looked like a freshly… Continue reading

  • Attachment Parenting is Not

    Attachment Parenting is not Indulgent Parenting. Attachment parents do not “spoil” their children. Spoiling is done when a child is given everything that they want regardless of what they need and regardless of what is practical. Indulgent parents give toys… Continue reading