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Lost in Translation: La Leche League meeting

September 15, 2009

Here’s a little bit of background info to set the scene: This was an informal gathering in someone’s mejilis (formal Arab living room), children under the age of 3 were circulating through the room leaving trails of biscuits and water crackers behind them, there were babies sleeping/eating/playing, and 12 women from 9 nationalities trying to [...]

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Big is beautiful

August 30, 2009

These babies don’t miss any meals. A friend who works in the medical field was looking for photographs of babies who are breastfed to be published in Tefly Magazine. Tefly (Arabic = my child) is published in Saudi Arabia. The featured photographs are to promote breastfeeding by showing that breastfed babies can be healthy, too. [...]

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“Baby-wise”

July 24, 2009

Every culture has its admonitions and instructions about babies. I get to hear lots of different kinds because I live with people from lots of different cultures. For about two years now I’ve been participating in an online support group through the La Leche League International with other moms who live in the Arabian Peninsula. [...]

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The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems

July 6, 2009

Tracy Hogg and Melinda Blau, The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems (By Teaching You to Ask the Right Questions): Sleeping, Feeding, and Behavior–Beyond the Basics from Infancy Through Toddlerhood, New York: Atria Books, 2005. Snapshot: Yes, that’s quite a title, but I guess the publishers couldn’t sum up this comprehensive 400-page book any other [...]

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