After a much needed night of rest to prepare for another day of celebration, consumption and convivial times, one morning's breakfast featured assorted varieties of my Cowgirl Granola paired
with Mother Culture's Greek yogurt.
Not exact matches
Mother's Day struck a resonant chord in the
culture -
with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and urban migration,
with Protestants long familiar
with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood,
with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential,
with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous
mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.
I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his
mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet
with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered
with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology
with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their
culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene
with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.
Thus it was
with a grim literalness that there was fulfilled, in the life of entire
cultures and not only of individual families, the alienation described by the saying of Jesus in the Gospels: «I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her
mother, and a daughter - in - law against her
mother - in - law; and a man's foes will be those of his own household» (Matt.10: 35 - 36).
And so even their Christian
mothers didn't fully understand what it meant to be biblical women and they were rebelling
with the world,
with the
culture, against a role that they thought women were being forced into.»
The characteristics of the particularistic religion generally can be extrapolated from Levis description: It is emotional and intense in contrast to the ascetic rationalism of high Italian
culture; it is fiercely closed to the outside world (there is not one such religion but as many as there are groups), as opposed to the universalism of high Italian thought; and it is presided over by a woman, an epiphany of the Great
Mother of the Mediterranean world, only partially and uncertainly articulated
with the Virgin of Nazareth.
I am
mother of a very active exclusivly breastfed boy who also shares our bed after soo much negative comments about breastfeeding and co-sleeping mainly from family and members of the same
culture / community I decided to search the net for ppl
with similar parenting styles.
If you think that babies sleep a certain way, based either on
culture or past experience or something you read in a book (please PLEASE either read no sleep books or all of them) or what your
mother - in - law says about how your partner slept as a baby or whatever, then if your child doesn't sleep that way, it may take you a long time to be able to identify cues from your child about what s / he needs because you'll be fighting
with your expectations.
In a
culture that commonly separates
mothers and babies for routine procedures such as cleaning, weighing and measuring, most babies are missing that critical time of being skin to skin
with their
mothers, which has short and long term consequences for all.
Cultures around the world treat the new
mother like a queen and create a «buffer - zone» so the new
mother is able to recover, ease into her new role, and bond
with her baby.
In many traditional
cultures, a
mother stays in bed
with her baby for the first bunch of weeks.
Come connect
with other nursing
mothers, share your stories and questions, find support and help create a breastfeeding
culture.
«Perhaps if you were part of a
culture that actually felt less ambivalent about
mothers working, and had a system of child care in place where it was okay for
mothers to work, I think you would automatically feel less guilt and pressure to spend more time
with kids,» she said.
The idea (to put it crudely) was to make fathers as unattractive to employers as
mothers; to mount a real challenge to work - heavy work - place
cultures (found mainly in the private sector); and to encourage
mothers (who,
with fathers playing a larger part at home, would feel less burdened) to have more children and to spend more years in higher level jobs.
There's an automatic assumption in our
culture that all
mothers will bond
with their babies.
With a background in Anthropology and an ear for the unspoken, she particularly enjoys counselling mothers with empathy and humor through the challenging experiences of mothering through breastfeeding in American cult
With a background in Anthropology and an ear for the unspoken, she particularly enjoys counselling
mothers with empathy and humor through the challenging experiences of mothering through breastfeeding in American cult
with empathy and humor through the challenging experiences of
mothering through breastfeeding in American
culture.
Our
culture is just not designed to support new
mothers with young children.
I am an older woman in my early 60s and perhaps it is the
culture that I grew up in, but I am very uncomfortable
with mother's overindulging their babies and using the breast as a discipline or the go to solution for a tantrum.
In addition to our
culture's fascination
with breasts as sexual objects, breastfeeding is also «modified by a wide variety of [cultural] beliefs, not only about infant health and nutrition, but also about the nature of human infancy and the proper relationships between
mother and child, and between
mother and father1.»
In most
cultures throughout the world, babies sleep
with their
mothers.
TIME, the blame for
mother guilt does not lie
with attachment parenting or
with any other type of parenting philosophy or
culture — the complexity and balancing act of motherhood, encompassing mommy guilt or even typical healthy doubt as we navigate our way, existed before attachment parenting resurfaced.
Hirkani's Daughters, a book published by La Leche League International on breastfeeding and working, illustrates that motherhood is compatible
with maintaining a career and contains many examples of how
mothers from different
cultures and countries have found ways to combine the two.
Advancing Breastfeeding: Forging Partnerships for a Better Tomorrow describes how to create this supportive
culture by developing relationships
with groups that can help
mothers reach their breastfeeding goals.
Would we, as
mothers and a
culture as a whole, feel the same shame and judgment if we were diagnosed
with diabetes?
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The fMRI - based findings suggest that breastfeeding and factors associated
with breastfeeding, such has high levels of hormones (oxytocin, prolactin), stress, and
culture may all play an important role for
mothers» brain activity and parenting behaviors during the early postpartum period.
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There is some debate among health care providers whether the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative friendly guidelines actually increases breastfeeding rates in new moms, or if it creates a
culture of pressure and shame for
mothers who struggle
with breastfeeding.
However, many traditional
cultures commonly co-sleep, and the September / October 2002 issue of «
Mothering Magazine» points to research showing that babies sleeping in a crib are twice as susceptible to sleep - related deaths than newborns sleeping
with their parents.
Around the world, across
cultures and throughout time,
mothers have shared sleep
with their babies.
The fertilised egg (zygote)
cultured for 2 - 6 days in a growth medium and is then transferred to the
mother's uterus
with the intention of establishing a successful pregnancy.
Mothers today are born into a
culture laden
with expectations for them.
Ethnographic data from societies around the world confirm that
mothers in traditional human
cultures are in contact
with their infants 24 hours a day, carrying them strapped to their bodies by day, sleeping beside them at night [5], and feeding at will.
As a
mother of three, Miller did indeed combine a job as Cameron's
culture secretary
with her commitments to the property market, something she was partly able to achieve, it appears, by keeping all cultural expeditions to a minimum.
Richter says there are a lot of unanswered questions about how to scale up interventions and adapt them to different
cultures, how to support
mothers at risk of depression, and how early interventions dovetail
with later educational programs.
Because I grew up
with my
mother, I was raised in the Mexican
culture and am a Mexican at heart, although the color of my skin is comparatively light.
Connecting
with the spirit and
culture of
Mother India we will gain a deeper understanding of who we are and how we fit into the great role of healing.
Had I known about how traditional
cultures provided pregnant and nursing
mothers with nutrient - dense, high - fat «sacred foods,» my health and that of my child's and all the other
mothers like me would not have been sacrificed.
A few weeks back, when showing you how to divide a scoby — the Kombucha
mother culture — I mentioned that we make our Kombucha
with honey instead of sugar.
Babies do produce functional enzymes (pepsin and proteolytic enzymes) and digestive juices (hydrochloric acid in the stomach) that work on proteins and fats.12 This makes perfect sense since the milk from a healthy
mother has 50 - 60 percent of its energy as fat, which is critical for growth, energy and development.13 In addition, the cholesterol in human milk supplies an infant
with close to six times the amount most adults consume from food.13 In some
cultures, a new
mother is encouraged to eat six to ten eggs a day and almost ten ounces of chicken and pork for at least a month after birth.
It is basically sweetened tea left to ferment or sit out in room temperature for a few days
with a SCOBY (Symbiotic
Culture of Bacteria and Yeast), also known as the kombucha
mother.
Best to avoid those
with artificial flavorings as they may contain volatile oils that could harm your
mother culture.
Babies are born
with a completely sterile gut and they
culture their beneficial gut bacteria from what the receive from their
mother when passing through the birth canal and from nursing in the months afterward.
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With a perfect body and model - worthy looks, my
mother had grown up in a
culture where fat was a sign of wealth, and therefore the desired look.
Her dream is having children together
with her one and only and raise them together letting them take the very best from both
cultures their
mother and dad are belonging to.
One of the film's key scenes shows the village assembly in Hirut's area carefully debating her case, and when Meaza attempts to leave a meeting
with Hirut's parents without staying for a meal, she is brought up short by a
mother who insists, «you must not forget our
culture.»
When Sara Johnson (Julia Stiles) moves in
with her estranged father after her
mother's accidental death, she has to learn some new moves to fit in
with her school mates and their hip - hop
culture.
While the script does present a realistic take on the chaos of life
with little ones as far as this writer can tell (full disclosure: I am nobody's
mother), it still conforms to the tired comedy mandate that at least a half - dozen contemporary pop -
culture references must be inserted into the average feature - length script.