Growing Season Blog
Posts from June 2012

Alpaca Babies!

June 24, 2012

So I just had two births in three days.  I’m farm-sitting for my mom, and both of her June mamas decided to have their babies on my watch! Meet Alisa… and Victor! Alisa is now two days old.  She is about 4 hours old in this picture.  It had been pouring out and she shivered […]

Tags: Birth Stories

Foot Massages for Baby Shower Guests

June 16, 2012

I had a super fun day today.  I got to attend a baby shower…as the entertainment! The lovely hostess wanted to pamper our soon-to-be-parent and the guests, and had the awesome idea of having me give foot massages and hand massages to everyone who was interested.  She even made it a surprise: she was the […]

Tags: Most Popular, Perinatal Massage

Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica on Placenta Preparation

June 7, 2012

Most folks who prepare placentas for encapsulation, including myself, use what is called the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) method.  I’ve been looking into the history of this method, and would like to share what I have found.  I have not yet changed my approach to placenta encapsulation, but I am thinking about it.  I don’t […]

Tags: Most Popular, Placenta

Your Orgasmic Pregnancy

My rating:

June 4, 2012

I really like the idea of this book. The execution, not so much.

Tags: Book Reviews