I can not thank Lauren, with The Whole Network, enough for doing this very informative and respectful post on circumcision for our BWF readers. It truly is a phenomenal article on such a heated topic. ~Mrs. BWF During my first pregnancy, I was overwhelmed with joy when I found out that there was a little boy in my belly. Like…
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Gratitude
Definition of Gratitude: Thankfulness. This time of year we hear and read a lot about being grateful. Living in our modern societies, our perception of what we should be grateful for is highly skewed. As I pondered being grateful on this Thanksgiving, I thought of the last 2 years of my life, what we went through and where we are…
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Cosleeping and Bed Sharing Families
I recently wrote this post regarding the shocking, misinformed, uneducated ad with a the baby sleeping with a knife. I asked the BWF Community if they had any cosleeping pictures they would be generous enough to share for that post. 190 emails later and a new Gmail folder made, I had plenty! I shared a few in the post and…
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Cosleeping: Fear Mongering, Flawed Research and How to Cosleep Safely
This ad has made quite the uproar! Why? It takes a group of people (by zip code) that has a high death rate and instead of looking at the circumstances and the reasons why, they blame cosleeping and make a fear mongering ad that says all cosleeping is as dangerous as baby sleeping with a big rusty butcher knife. Why…
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Military Families: Maternity and Family Pictures
“My hubby is in the Air Force. The camo and parachute shot were his idea : ) And I love how protective my six year old looks in the last one.” ~ Danielle “My husband is in the Army. He spent the last 3 years serving at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington national cemetery. This is our…
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More Tattoos, Birth and Babies
I recently shared this post with beautiful pictures of birth where moms and dads have awesome ink! (Started as a Facebook status update and went from there.) The number of emails that came in sharing pictures was more than expected! Which leads to part two…enjoy. Natalie and Ian… Taken at home with blessing #6, unassisted with my husband and children.…
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Choose Compassion and Love
I have been humbled since participating in social media. I’m sure I’ve offended people, whether intended or not. I used to have no problem expressing my opinion on hot topics like CIO (crying it out), spanking, circumcision, vaccines, and of course birth (mostly before BWF). Then something happened. I noticed how some people will go further than expressing their opinion…
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Giveaway: BWF, E-cloth and Gorgeous & Green
I was going to write this long review and work it into a giveaway, but honestly, let’s just get to the good stuff. Two of our sponsors over there ————————-> are donating their awesome products to some lucky BWF Mamas! MyEcloth They are awesome. I have one (and the polishing one). I was skeptical at first, thinking how could this…
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BWF Blog One Year Anniversary: Top 10 Blog Posts
Today, October 25th, marks the one year anniversary of the Birth Without Fear blog! Here are the top 10 blog posts over the last year (by most visited according to Google)… 1. Breech Babies are Another Variation of Normal 2. A License to Rape 3. Beautiful and Inspiring Pregnancy and Birth Pictures 4. Top 10 Things Not to Say to…