real food for mother and baby

This book looks good. I read her other book Real Food What to Eat and Why and liked it. Emeri is just starting solids now so Britt would probably enjoy this book too.

birth matters

I was just reading an interesting interview in Babble with the author of Birth Matters on "why America has such a weird birth culture." Ina May Gaskin is renown as "the mother of authentic midwifery" and her practice is noted for it's low rates of intervention, morbidity and mortality. In her book she explains why birth matters not just to women and babies but society as a whole. One statistic that had me completely aghast was that a woman giving birth today has a greater chance of dying then her mother did! This and the fact that the cesarean section rate is between 30 and 40% is crazy. The other fact that is so weird is that almost everyone is induced now. I had to be induced with my oldest daughter and it was so much more painful then the natural birth I had with my son. The other thing I don't get is why everyone is induced when they are just a week late. It wasn't that way when I had my children and the babies were fine. My middle daughter was 3 weeks late and the sky didn't fall down! It now seems like women getting to their due date is so extremely stressful and they demand to have their babies immediately. Most doctors are of no help either as they facilitate these practices for their own reasons. I don't know when things changed so much but the direction we are heading is not healthy for babies or moms and the statistics prove this out. This is an important and insightful book that all women who are pregnant or plan to have a child anytime in the future should read.

a mother's love

I read about this book, Lift on the blog the lil bee. It is about a mother's love for her two daughter's and how it has changed her life. I went to Amazon {as I always do when I hear about a book} and read the reviews. Reading some of the excerpts from the book brought tears to my eyes. It sounds like a book that anyone who is a mother or mother to be would love.

rules for my unborn son

I immediately thought of my grandson Noah when I come across the book Rules for My Unborn Son by Walker Lamond. Based on his touching and humorous blog 1001 Rules for My Unborn Son, I can see why all his reviews are glowing. What a perfect gift for a new Dad this Christmas.
via: Cup of Jo

pioneer projects for the modern girl

I saw this book The Prairie's Girl's Guide to Life on wide open spaces and immediately thought of my daughters. I regretfully did not teach them enough homemaking skills when they were growing up. Despite this they have both been getting quite domestic lately and learning themselves. Brittany just started taking sewing classes and is cooking up a storm. Danielle is making amazing dishes like this and is surpassing me in her cooking skills. This book is all about the homemaking skills we never learned from our grandmother's(or mother's) and how we can try to get back those simple pleasures in our lives. What a great book to learn from and pass down to our daughters.

book love

Loving everything I have read about these two new books. The first one What we eat when we are alone is by Deborah Madison and Patrick Mcfarlin. They went out to explore what people eat when they are alone. They found some interesting and funny stories about this, which she puts along with some recipes for eating alone. The other cool thing about this book are the illustrations. They are done by her husband Patrick Mcfarlin and they are amazing. You can see some of them here. The second book is I Love Your Style by Amanda Brooks. She shows us six catergories of style types, Classic, Bohemian, High Fashion, Street, Minimal, Eclectic, along with gorgeous pictures of the most stylish women for inspiration!

weekend sewing

The beautiful book Weekend Sewing by Heather Ross just came out with creative projects that just take a short time to make. This is the perfect thing to get me motivated to start sewing again. I did make a pillow a few months ago and I need to get started on making two more for my daughter's living room. The cute apron in this book would be perfect to make after that.