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		<title>The world of cloth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll never understand why more people don&#8217;t use cloth nappies, at least on a part-time basis. It&#8217;s funny how many people seem to have this idea that to use cloth is a lot of work and not worth it. I have used cloth nappies from the very beginning with my son, I have a very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenaturalparent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19802453&#038;post=471&#038;subd=thenaturalparent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The disorganised and messy mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I made the choice to be a stay at home mother for the first year of my child&#8217;s life as a minimum, I had held a belief that without the pressure of having to work I would be able to maintain a clean and perfect home&#8230;..boy was I wrong. Keep in mind, I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenaturalparent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19802453&#038;post=468&#038;subd=thenaturalparent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>They lied, it never gets easier but&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;I don&#8217;t mind a bit. It&#8217;s funny how often in those first few months with a new baby people will tell you it gets easier. The line of it gets easier after 12 weeks, or it gets easier after 6 months can seem a torturous and cruel comment to a sleep deprived and stressed out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenaturalparent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19802453&#038;post=464&#038;subd=thenaturalparent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A long absence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long period of no posting it is time to reconnect with the wonderful world-wide web. It seems the routine of regular posting can be interrupted by the simplest of changes in one&#8217;s life, and much like regular exercise it can be hard to get back on the horse once that routine is broken. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenaturalparent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19802453&#038;post=461&#038;subd=thenaturalparent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death of a modem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 05:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s day and age there is nothing that comes as much of a shock to us as the loss of the internet; well, at least not for me anyway. The internet is so many things these days; a source of contact to the outside world, a shop, a method of bill paying, and of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenaturalparent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19802453&#038;post=455&#038;subd=thenaturalparent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Easter!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Good Friday today and the beginning of the long weekend. In Australia Easter is on the same weekend as Anzac Day, so it&#8217;s an extra long weekend for us Aussies. Naturally I am off celebrating, remembering, and honouring with my family. I will be back posting after all the festivities are over. Wishing everyone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenaturalparent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19802453&#038;post=441&#038;subd=thenaturalparent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somewhere on the path to motherhood&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thenaturalparent.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/somewhere-on-the-path-to-motherhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.I learnt to love cleaning. It has amazed me once I became a mother how much I love to clean now, weird comment to make I know but these days it is something I truly love to do. In the past I have been the worlds best procrastinator, managing to find all sorts of other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenaturalparent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19802453&#038;post=430&#038;subd=thenaturalparent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A call to leave new mothers alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing (and a little sad) how often I talk to other new mother&#8217;s and discover how common it is for mothers to feel under-confident in their parenting; often feeling inadequate in the face of all the advice and criticism they are receiving from those that are meant to be supporting them. I would even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenaturalparent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19802453&#038;post=434&#038;subd=thenaturalparent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My first back carry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a cause for celebration when your baby is old enough to safely go on your back in a soft structured carrier, especially when you have a large and particularly heavy baby. I could have put him in a woven on my back earlier, but frankly I just can&#8217;t manage a back carry with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenaturalparent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19802453&#038;post=424&#038;subd=thenaturalparent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The selfishness of motherhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a selfish person, when people call many of the acts of mothering selfless I remain a little unconvinced. On the surface motherhood does seem selfless; we give up a lot of ourselves to provide all the needs (and wants) of our children, but for me the rewards far outweigh the costs. When I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenaturalparent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19802453&#038;post=417&#038;subd=thenaturalparent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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