Breastfeed in public while preserving your modesty

I was in a meeting this morning. And I heard something that needed to be repeated. Cheese made from breast milk. Huh? Yes, cheese made from breast milk. Who's making cheese from breastmilk? Moms, of course. Okay.... weird. I had to go home and check it out online for myself.

A Kentucky woman was arrested for public intoxication. But that's not the interesting part. As she was being booked into the Detention Center, the 31 year old mother squirted breast milk at a deputy. The deputy decontaminated herself and charged the woman with a felony and considered the milk "bio-hazard".

Breast milk is absolutely the best thing for your baby for at least the first six months. But after exclusively breastfeeding your baby for six months, you will want to introduce him to other foods, moving onto solids. You will still breastfeed a lot, but what can you begin to feed your baby at six months or later?

Children are highly intelligent. And where you must work hard to teach them to behave correctly and honorably, they need absolutely no instruction on being selfish, lying, manipulating, and deceiving others. They are born with such talents and are eager to show them off at every opportunity. Children are master "dividers".

My second child is fourteen today. It is amazing how time flies. Like the child who just turned eighteen two weeks ago, I remember, like it was last week, being pregnant with and giving birth to, Cheyenne Renee. She was born on her due date, March 3, 1996, at six pounds, ten ounces. She was very different from baby number 1.

I am hearing a lot about the controversies around vaccines. Some people insist that they are poisonous and dangerous and ought to be avoided at all costs. Some believe in them. Others have no opinion.

When my babies were vaccinated, I was given extensive literature on things to watch for. From time to time, a child has an allergic reaction to a vaccine. The consequences can be deadly, or, at the very least, disabling. I was blessed; my children never had reactions beyond the normal swelling and low grade fever. I have never had a problem with vaccinations.

"Expose her to the chicken pox", my friends would say. It is dangerous to allow a child to avoid the chicken pox for as long as possible. I had a friend who was pregnant when she got chicken pox and the older you get, the deadlier it can become. So my friends all rushed their children over to the homes of other children suffering from the chicken pox. Of course, this was before the days of the vaccine.

Ah, modern technology. A blessing or a curse? Thirty, forty, fifty plus years ago, when you got pregnant, you waited nine months to find out what gender your baby was going to be. Shouldn't be too big a surprise... there are only two options. Everyone has a fifty percent chance of being right on a guess! It is what the best bets are made of! The pink or blue lined cigars have more meaning when the celebration of "It's a Boy" or "It's a Girl" is determined when said "boy" or "girl" actually makes an arrival!

I adore children. There is such innocence, humor, and joy in those little bodies. I come across people who say they didn't even like children when they were children and I pity them. To not love children is to deny all that is pure, innocent, and playful.