Category Archives: parenting

Yoni

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Janet

When my daughter was born I wondered what words we would use to teach her about her body and mine. With my son it was relatively simple since penis, testicles and scrotum come with little baggage and no embedded misandry. … Continue reading →

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Fate of earth – fate of birth

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Janet

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Australia’s Disease Burden Traced To Low Rates Of Breastfeeding

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Janet

Australia’s Disease Burden Traced To Low Rates Of Breastfeeding by Gopalan T on 18 August 2010 Australia’s chronic disease burden has been traced to historical barriers to breastfeeding. The research, by Dr Julie Smith and Dr Peta Harvey of the … Continue reading →

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First time birthing women? What do you wish you’d known?

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Janet

What do you wish you’d known before you’d birthed? What stopped you hearing the nurturing advice you received? One more comment I received when I asked women these questions was: why go to hospital for 15 mins of pushing and … Continue reading →

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Parenting for a Peaceful World

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Janet

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Breastfeeding, not special, just normal.

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Janet

I support a lot of women to find their way through personal and political gunk and reach a point where they can birth their babies in nice simple births.As the end of pregnancy draws near I encourage women to start … Continue reading →

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Eleventh carnival of feminist parenting

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Janet

In case you haven’t seen it yet, it’s here. A fantastic collection of marvellous blog posts on all sorts of great topics involving feminism, birth, parenting and breastfeeding! Thanks to Mothers for Women’s Lib for such great work bringing it … Continue reading →

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Are you a feminist who parents? You’re needed!

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Janet

You’re needed in the world but you’re also really needed by the Carnival of Feminist Parenting! It’s so vital that we keep firming the links between the feminisms and all the things women do. If you blog, parent and call … Continue reading →

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Rest. Is it even possible?

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Janet

Welcome to the May Carnival of Natural Parenting: Role model This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have waxed poetic about how … Continue reading →

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Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is a boringly normal human activity.

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Janet

I came across this marvellous group and thought I’d share in case you haven’t seen them. Love their work! Check them out at their link. Such lovely, normal images of normal human stuff! Here we present the first page of … Continue reading →

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