Five for Fighting and Austism videos

We all know that Autism has become an epidemic among children in this nation. For something that impacts the lives of so many people, we know so very little about it. Please take the time to watch this video (and other Autism videos) at the Five for Fighting website. Just watching the video will send a portion of the profits from the advertising on the site to the charity affiliated with the video. Keep a tissue handy, it's a tear-jerker.

Adventures in self-feeding

So, Hannah is 6 months old now, and we decided to let her start self-feeding a little. This morning, I cut some graspable slices of avacado and plopped them in front of her in her high chair. She immediately made a HUGE mess. She did taste the avacado a teensy bit, but didn't really eat any. I gave her another slice when we ate dinner, since I thought she might be encouraged to eat "with" us. The second time she got some avacado in her mouth, acted like she was chewing it, and swallowed a bit. She seemed to like it, and didn't make any upset faces. She seemed to have a good time.

Here are some pictures from the avacado sessions :) Note that the avacado was originally in hand sized spears. I just didn't get the camera there before Hannah had a chance to mush it all up!

Supernanny calls BFing a 14-month old "crazy"

Here it is! Another thoughtful Mama has tivo'd the commercial for tonight's episode of Supernanny and has saved me from having to watch anymore of ABC's daytime programming.
So, now that I've watched it, I'm way more offended than I thought I'd be. I mean, God fobid a woman be breastfeeding her 14-month old. (rolling eyes) This is clearly the cause of all evil in the world. (rolling eyes again)
I'll be watching tonight's episode and then writing a letter to ABC telling them that they've lost my viewership. Period. I cannot believe that they would construe such ridiculousness as solid parenting advice.

More anti-BF ridiculousness

If you want to read something that will really make your stomach turn, check out Thomas Beach's column in the Delaware Online News. Post a comment, write the editor of the paper, but most of all, do *something* to stop the ridiculousness!

ABC's Supernanny bashes BF in upcoming show...

I have to admit that I haven't yet seen this preview yet, but I'm certainly keeping an eye out for it. I've also got the show set to record.

However, here's what I've heard through the lactivist grapevine... previews for the show have a clip of Supernanny getting mad at the mom for nursing her 14-month old baby and saying "14-months old and STILL on the boob... crazy!". And then the announcer says "someone get that baby a bottle!". Um, excuse me while I go say some nasty things in another room. I'll be back when I've collected myself.

Ok, so, hopefully I can catch this nasty preview at some point. I've definitely got the DVR set to record. (BTW, the show airs Monday night, March 12th - check your local listings for time.) And after I've seen this nonesense, I'll be writing a letter to ABC and to the show's producers to let them know just how disgusted I am.

For anyone interested, I'll go ahead and post the contact information...
Los Angeles Office
Ricochet Television Inc.
3800 Barham Boulevard
Suite 210
Los Angeles
CA 90068


email: supernannyUSA@ricochet.co.uk
Nick Powell is the creator and executive producer of both the American and British versions of the show. Craig Armstrong and Nick Emmerson are executive producers of the American version. Supernanny is produced by Ricochet, Ltd.

We're officially a CD family!

Well, we're officially a cloth diapering family now! Hannah wore cloth all day yesterday and I washed my first load of dirty cloth diapers last night. Go me! She seems happy and comfortable in them, and we haven't had any poopy leaks (amazing, since we normally have 2+/day! I have a nice stash of 17 Fuzzi Bunz and a variety of inserts. I even bought some raw silk liners in case we have any reappearance of that nasty yeast diaper rash that a pack of Pampers caused. I have 3 more slightly used Fuzzi Bunz in the mail to me right now to join our stash. I figure 20 diapers will do us really well. Matt is still a bit squeamish with the cloth, but I think he'll get used to it quickly.

Look at this cute cloth diapered butt... (the baby is pretty cute too, right?)

E-bay petition about cloth diapers

E-Bay is trying to prohibit members from selling used cloth diapers. I can attest that they're already in the process, because an auction I was bidding on today was removed. Apparently, people at E-Bay think that selling cloth diapers is akin to selling dirty adult underwear, which could apparently violates their adult/mature content policies. Um, insert rolling eyes smilie here.

If you think this is ridiculous (I hope you do), please feel free to sign the petition available to you here. Also, please pass this along to other like-minded friends!

Now, to post this before DD's feet erase it...