Musings of a Mountain Mama

Musings from my life as a naturally-minded mama, wife, doula/birth junkie & yogini.

[huffpost]

People have offered many potential explanations for this discrepancy, but this ad highlights the importance of the social cues that push girls away from math and science in their earliest childhood years.

Watch the powerful Verizon advertisement to really understand what a little girl hears when you tell her she’s pretty.

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Weeks 5-10 <3

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Big things happening for this little giant! Including a transition into her a big kid bed and big kid undies! (What happened to my 5 1/2 lb. peanut?) I can't believe that next month is already 18 months! Happy 17 months to our girl. So many developments and milestones have been happening, it's been hard for you to slow down. Your personality is one of a kind and your spunk is one for the books. You have taught your mama so much with plenty more to come. You made me a mother and there is no greater gift. Here's to constantly learning, growing, and experiencing life together. One day 17 months will seem like such a short time, but for now, it's everything we have. Here's to the future, babycakes! I can't wait to see all you have in store for us, tantrums and all. ;) I love you forever and always.

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17 months in the blink of an eye. <3

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Working on getting into her first inversion? :P

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EKG was thankfully good. But I have to journal when my heart rate goes up and what I was doing. I also have to eliminate caffeine from my life (uh I work at a coffee shop). Also, if it continues to go to the ER. Please define continues?

I need to follow up with my normal doc, and get my thyroid checked.

I have to try to eliminate caffeine. Fuck.

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That's rough. I'm sorry you have you deal with this but am glad the EKG was good. Decaf at least still tastes yummy... Lol.

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This. Yes.

[sunflower-mama]

Kids are exhausting and annoying and gross and smelly and messy and loud and I want 10

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Lol!

[mother-of-faeries]

That’s for freaking sure…

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Who knew I'd find so much gold on the #doula tag? LOVE

[mybirthmychoice]

You don’t have to feel strapped down and alone in a hospital! Choose a midwife, and you’ll have someone who will be birthing with you, not telling you how to give birth!

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This isn't to say wonderful OBs don't exist and don't have their place in maternity care. But it definitely makes you think...

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I feel a birth coming on any minute now...

I'm awaiting the call for what will likely be a beautiful home birth. My bag is already in the car, loaded with everything I need. I'm resting every chance I get because the fatigue from my own pregnancy has been no joke. I have no doubt of my ability to be a great doula for this family; adrenaline and oxytocin are beautiful things. But I am so tired today that I can't even make it up and down my stairs. o_O Let's see how this goes... I mean, let's do this! ...? :P

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3

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Before & After! We have "Violet Queen" cauliflower, Romanesco, cucumbers, lemon verbena, spearmint, roma and cherry tomatoes, chives, green and purple jalepenos, and cherry and bell peppers outside. & Thai basil, parsley and oregano in a window planter for in/outdoors. :D Needs a few finishing touches for appearance purposes, but we have a garden!

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it’s okay for you to like skinny girls

it’s okay for you to like skinny girls with big boobs and a butt

it’s okay for you to like curvy girls

it’s okay for you to like heavier girls

it’s totally okay to like thighs or thigh gaps and big boobs or small boobs and big butts or little butts

what’s not okay is telling a woman that she isn’t beautiful or sexy because she doesn’t meet your personal body type preferences

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arielcalypso:

 Everyone needs to reblog this.

Yup. This triggered a little deep thinking this morning… Body image gets me, but surely not because I’m insecure. All bodies of all types can be/are beautiful. The sexiest thing is confidence (not to be confused with conceit). And I’m not just saying that as a “skinny girl.”

I can waste my life away dreaming of the hips or ass I’ll never have, obsessing over my 2 different sized boobs, or comparing myself to every girl that walks by. In fact, I did a lot of that after puberty and through high school. When I hear other women rip themselves and each other apart, I thank the stars that I grew out of that destructive behavior.

It drives me crazy when I’m invalidated, even by my closest friends, and put on this “skinny girl” pedestal where it’s assumed I’m not allowed to have a single concern about my body. Like I said, I’m not insecure and I’m very comfortable in this temple of mine. But if I let ego take over… there’s always the opportunity to find flaws. This isn’t a bad thing. It’s what I do with the thoughts that counts. I choose to toss them away. It doesn’t serve me and it doesn’t serve my sisters.

As a "skinny girl, I say this... Don’t envy me for my body. Don’t disregard me because “I don’t know what it’s like.” Don’t play the victim. You’re only the victim of yourself (and our garbage society). Don’t take my genuine compliments and perception of you and your beauty as guilt for being “skinny.” Don’t assume I our anyone else for that matter have never battled with body image and self love. Don’t think even the most beautiful of women haven’t looked at themselves in the mirror and struggled with the thoughts that arose.

If anything, be inspired by your own beauty. Love yourself. Really and truly. Then the rest eventually falls into place.

None of this is to say I don’t still have my challenging moments. In this society, it’s nearly impossible not to. But letting go of that demon and learning to practice self love is one of the single greatest things I’ve ever achieved.

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Her Saturday morning “I have to poop” face… :P

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