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Emergencies In Breastfeeding

It’s World Breastfeeding Week and we are celebrating at Fusion Parenting.  Come back for a new post on breastfeeding every day!   It’s World Breastfeeding Week. You may have noticed, particularly if you read parenting blogs or websites often. This year’s theme is “Breastfeeding in Emergencies”. Being serious for a moment, breastfeeding is critical to [...]

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Pink

My son likes pink. I mean, he really likes pink. I think it’s his favourite colour. Me, I’m okay with that. Pink is just a colour. I don’t like pink much myself – I’m genuinely dismayed at the fact that pink really suits me, because I can’t stand pink. But I figure taste in colour [...]

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Early Morning Trains

I’ve started back at work, and everything is going swimmingly. My two year old is loving spending time with Grandma or Daddy on different days, and he loves catching trains with me in the morning. I could do without the early starts in some ways – I’m not a morning person, never really have been. [...]

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He’s healthy, he’s happy, and he likes me

How do you measure your parenting skills? Because, let’s face it. Most of us feel guilty about, well, everything. I think most of us feel inadequate as parents sometimes. Or maybe it’s just me. But, either way, I’ve come up with what I think is the best yardstick by which to measure my ability as [...]

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Lunch!

I haven’t blogged in a few weeks because I’ve recently returned to work, and it turns out that being at work takes up a lot more of my time than I remember. Some mornings, it really does take ages to get a toddler out of bed and dressed. Anyway, being that I’m back at work, [...]

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Up in the air, I fly…

Oh my, oh my. It’s good to be home. I’ve just spent most of a week in an unfamiliar city with a not-quite-two year old. I’ve learned a few things over the course of six days. The first is that despite airline assurances that a child under two is an ‘infant’ and should travel on [...]

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Whatever Works

I went to a mothers group meeting once. I was quite new to the group, and I felt a bit nervous. I can’t remember how the subject came up, but one of the other mothers asked me how the Dumpling, then four months old, napped during the day. I explained that we’d moved a mattress [...]

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