-Jr Family Blog

A great book about postpartum depression written by somebody who would know from experience is Brooke Schields’ “Down Came The Rain.”

Aunt M. recommends Dr. Dobson’s “The New Strong-Willed Child.” It changed the way she talks to her children.

A friend’s favorite book is “The Sinner’s Guide” which is available from TAN books.

An excellent, comprehensive, balanced book about vaccinating or not vaccinating children is Aviva Jill Romm’s “Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parent’s Guide: How to Make Safe, Sensible Decisions about the Risks, Benefits, and Alternatives”.

Dear friends, family, and other random people:
    David George Edward Dashjr decided to come out early! He was born at 10:05 AM on Saturday, October 20th, in the year of Our Lord 2007 (just shy of 1 month before he was due) measuring 18½” (46½ cm) and weighing only 5 lbs, 11 oz. He has dark brown hair and is very healthy, despite being born nearly a month early: Corinne’s water gradually broke throughout Friday, and we were surprised by David’s birth early Saturday– all of a sudden he was coming out, and was born in our bathroom before the ambulance could get here! We then rushed to the hospital, where he and Mama will be staying for the next two days (at least). They won’t let Catherine in, so she and I will be spending a lot of time together. Her new favourite phrase is “David come out” :)

Love,

Luke, Corinne, Catherine, and David Dashjr

I finally wrote this out for a family member to avoid hurt feelings and wasting her money since she loves to buy us things and can’t read our minds.
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We can’t afford to turn on the furnace until Luke is hired locally and we don’t have any working space heaters, so we…
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The paragraphs under the links are from Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. Kendra Degen Pearsall’s 2006 book, “Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, Nutrasweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health”, page 170.

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Catherine is the cheapest member of our family, unless you count David (right now his only costs are what it takes to feed me, and my pills). We’ve bought very few clothes for her since people give us so many clothes - friends, family, strangers. Read the rest of this entry »

For future reference:

Gerber All In One Waterproof Trainers
Gerber webpage

Cheapest price so far (same as at Babies R Us if I recall correctly, about $7):
Store webpage

The Google link:
Google search results

Watch Out for Communist China
BY MATTHEW TAYLOR

TFP Student Action volunteers handed out flyers and took surveys in front of the Allen Street Gate in State College, Penn.

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Please email Corinne at corinne_book@dashjr.org if you can help with the following more than praying:

I was reading Sheila Kitzinger’s book “The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth” this morning when I realized how offensive parts of it are to us. I am writing to ask for your prayers and any other help you can give me so that we can publish a pregnancy and childbirth book written by and for Catholic mothers.

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Hello,
Babies R Us gave us a free Babytalk and American Baby in their gift box and I have to say that Babytalk is much better, even without looking at all of the negative letters to the editor in your magazine. I couldn’t find a way to write a letter to the editor easily like I could on the letter to the editor page of Babytalk. Your magazine pushes bottles, vaccines, and expensive needless things like the classifieds - what a waste of paper! Read the rest of this entry »