div id="article" I was thinking about how much my life has changed
since having my first baby 4 years ago. I'm now a work-at-home mom with
two beautiful kids, and I wouldn't give it up for anything! But I
thought I would get my thoughts down in writing, quickly, before I
completely forget what life was like “way back when...”

Then: I'd wake up and start my day with a well-rounded breakfast before getting ready to take on the world!

I'm a mother of three.  When my kids were born, I wanted 3 people other
than medical personnel there (I had my kids in the hospital):  my mom,
my husband, and my mother-in-law.



My husband was there for emotional support, and because it was his kid,
too. We'd done Lamaze classes together, and in a labor situation, I
wasn't going to remember anything!

I was the kid who wanted to be a mother. The one who volunteered to
change dirty cloth diapers and babies and cousins and siblings for
free. I was the one who wanted 6 kids, even in my glamorous teenage
years when my friends couldn't imagine anything so gross. ('Course I
wasn't sure how I'd have them, because sex was too scary to think
about.) I wanted to be a midwife in elementary school, when no other
kid even knew the word. And I was surrounded by babies, being the
oldest of four siblings and twelve cousins in a neighbourhood of kids.

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 Why I Love Being a Single Mom of Three

 

1. I can parent however I want.

2. I can watch whatever movies I want.

3. No adults yell at me in my own home.

4. I don’t have to cater to an adult who is a pickier eater than any of my three children.

5. I never have to watch sports.

6. I don’t have to stop normal life to prepare for the 5pm arrival of Him.

7. The king-size bed is plenty big for all four of us when they all pile in.

By Priscilla Carpenter, Owner of MonsterBabyDiapers.com

Cloth diapers are making a comeback in an age of
environmental consciousness and economical hardships faced by moms who
want to stay home with their children.  However, even though using cloth saves moms a lot of money, it ends up being a huge investment in the beginning.  My solution to this was to just make my own.

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  When my daughter Chelsey was born 16
years ago, I was  24 years old and getting ready to leave my husband.
Within three months of her birth I was raising her alone. As a woman
with no computer or internet access (was there even an internet back
then in the dark ages?), I visited the library frequently, but mostly
I  learned about parenting  by instinct. And instinct is what AP is all
about.

It was a beautiful Sunday day in October. I was
24 weeks pregnant and had just gotten out my maternity clothes for the
first time to wear that day. It was a lovely day, and we went to an
apple farm. Little did I know at the time that would be the last day
me, my husband and daughter would do a family outing with just us. I
was just starting to feel like I was actually pregnant; I was showing
and had just started feeling the baby kick a few weeks prior. I so
desperately wanted a wonderful, natural birthing experience with this
baby, one that I missed out on with my first baby.