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Having a conversation
Yesterday I had the first conversation with my daughter. It went like this: Me: ‘Anya, it is time to go out, now’ Anya is super excited, smiles and bounces up and down. Mom puts on Ergo and pulls baby...
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How my daughter continues to blow my little mind with her little hands
Mommy’s swelling pride means the first thing I want to share with you all is Anya’s signing progress. I just find this whole ‘human learning to communicate’ journey endlessly fascinating. Anya seems to...
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Airplane Spirituality: What I learned from travelling with a one-year old
Image via Wikipedia This holiday, Nica and I went to England, then Portugal, then travelled back to the US via London, again. That is four flights in three weeks. Nica is one. NinjaDad was only with us...
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You know you are a hippy-mama (or papa) when…
you rent a birthing pool you are intent on using hypno-birthing over an epidural you have a doula or a homebirthing midwife you secretely wish Ina May could be with you at your child’s birth you know...
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How to become a hippy-mama in 20 easy steps!
Image by theqspeaks via Flickr The ‘You know you are a hippy-mama (or papa) when…’ post has been updated and now has tons of links to websites with useful information about the various practices...
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Baby Sign Language: breakthroughs and bloopers
Image via Wikipedia Anya has over 100 signs. She amazes me. On top of that she has ‘words’ (mostly sound effects) for another 20 or so things – most of those are for animals, food and things that go...
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It’s a sign that it is working: a baby’s language development is amazing
Image via Wikipedia You guys know I am a big baby sign language aficcionada. It started because I found out how good it was for little ones to be able to express themselves as soon as they are able to...
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Blog re-branding: Loving Earth Mama
Hi guys, So as you know I have been thinking deeply for a while now about how or whether to continue this blog. My solution (for now at least) is to continue this blog in a slightly new way. This shift...
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How I became the crazy Baby-Signs-woman (and how you could, too!)
When I was pregnant I heard about this quirky little thing called Baby Sign Language. Apparently – I was told – babies can learn how to use sign language before they can speak. Baby Sign Language is...
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Twenty easy-peasy tips for supporting language development
Happy Children Playing Kids (Photo credit: epSos.de) When Nica was only a baby, I was nervous about not knowing how to talk to her to help her develop language. Does that sound odd? I don’t know where...
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