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    Staying Hydrated


    Yesterday my students and I were waiting for the art teacher, so I decided to seize the opportunity to have a discussion about the importance of staying hydrated. At the beginning of every year, I ask families to send water bottles with their children every day. We also have a water filter in our classroom, so they can fill up their bottles when they run out.

    Inevitably, the bottles start leaking or they get lost, and pretty soon children are asking to go to the water fountains because they are thirsty. In our discussion yesterday, I tried to reiterate the idea that if you only drink when you are thirsty, … Read More

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    Checklist for Preparing Our Relationship for Pregnancy

    A kindred spirit left a thought-provoking comment on this post last week. I realized that Matt and I need to write “An Action Plan for Maintaining Our Marriage Through the Difficult Years of Raising a Child.”

    But before we do that, I feel like we need a “Checklist for Preparing Our Relationship for Pregnancy.”

    Hmm…this is a daunting task!

    Let me take a stab at it…

    1. Equally distribute household responsibilities: Matt and I are doing well with this one. Because we both work full-time, we pretty much divide chores evenly. We made a list of everything that has to get done on a weekly basis and split it into two
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    The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth


    Matt and I started watching Pregnant in America last night. I’m not a huge fan of the movie (I much prefer The Business of Being Born). However, I do agree with the concepts. I love analyzing the ways in which profit-making affects what becomes culturally acceptable in our society (obviously, this relates to weddings, too!).

    As much as I’m leaning toward the birthing center or home birth option because I don’t think it’s necessary to pathologize or overly medicalize the birthing experience, I do want to get my hands on unbiased information that compares home birth to hospital birth. I know home birth advocates argue that it’s safer, … Read More