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Parent Directed Feeding (PDF)

Rhys-ently

February 3, 2010

Nothing worth having comes easily now does it?
The latest saga of weaning Rhys continues with much progress, but unfortunately a lot less sleep.
Three weeks ago, he was co-sleeping, eating 8-10 times a night & needing a pacifier every 10-20 minutes all night to fall back asleep.
Two weeks ago, we managed to cut him back to [...]

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The Delicate Balance

January 12, 2010

As I mentioned last week, I have now begun my 20 hrs. a week at home/20 hrs. a week working in my transition to part-time InterVarsity Staff.
So far, so good with all the myriad of snafu’s you can imagine.
Last week, when I had an all day meeting in Grand Rapids I remembered to bring the [...]

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What makes me Smile :)

December 6, 2009

A few days ago Rhys & I made the trek out to my school, Western Theological Seminary for our annual Christmas luncheon.  It was so much fun to see all my old peeps from last year when I got the wonderful opportunity to spend a whole academic year focused fully on getting my M.Div.  Shouts [...]

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parent directed feeding vs. demand feeding

December 5, 2009

The other day I twittered this, “I’m creating a demand-fed-co-sleeping-sling-wearing-rocked-to-sleep-baby monster. Arrrghgh, I need a system QUICK! Babywise take me away…” & got plenty of comments arguing both sides via facebook.  It’s such an interesting debate because I think a lot of it boils down to the disposition and phase-of-life of the primary caretaker.

Little Reesey-Bear [...]

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