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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is Editorial Director of Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her work, the two …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com, a Catholic web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural topics. Most recently she has authored The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also employed as webmaster for her parish web sites. …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their young children Camilla and Blaise. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site is ABC Family. …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is the managing editor of Faith & Family magazine. She is (yikes!) an almost 30 year-old, single lady, living in Connecticut with her two cousins in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law …
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Hallie Lord

Hallie Lord
Hallie Lord married her dashing husband, Dan, in the fall of 2001 (the same year, coincidentally, that she joyfully converted to the Catholic faith). They now happily reside in the deep South with their two energetic boys and two very sassy girls. In her *ample* spare time, Hallie enjoys cheap wine, …
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Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr John Bartunek, LC, STL, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and …
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Guest Bloggers

Jeff Young

Jeff Young
Everyone is entitled to at least one good idea, right? Well, Jeff Young had his in October 2008 when he was struck dumb by the Catholic Foodie concept. It was a Reese's moment for him. Two great "tastes" that "taste" great together. Food and faith! Jeff produces the Catholic Foodie internet …
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Elizabeth Foss

Elizabeth Foss
Elizabeth Foss, an award winning columnist for the Arlington Catholic Herald, published her first book, Real Learning: Education in the Heart of My Home in 2003. The book is now in its third printing. Her popular blog, In the Heart of My Home is a source of inspiration and support for Catholic women …
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Old Navy's 'Scandalous' Shirt

Can't formula-feeding moms be proud too?

UPDATE: There are now over 50 comments. This is the point at which our comments pagination kicks in, and it gets a little hard to post “replies” to particular comments. To see the comments over 50, please click the page two (2) link at the top of the list of comments. Sorry for the confusion—I know it’s not ideal!

Let me begin by saying I am a big fan of breastfeeding. I have nursed all of my babies... READ MORE 


Nursing Wear To Fit Your Needs, Style and Budget

Fashion Friday!

Am I the only one who is less-than-satisfied with the current selection of nursing-wear fashions available? Don’t get me wrong; I do occasionally stumble upon a piece or two that are pretty cute but, all in all, the options out there leave a little something to be desired, don’t you think?

Maybe I’m crazy, not looking hard enough, or not looking in the right places, but from what I can tell most... READ MORE 


School of Nursing

Here, there, everywhere

This week is World Wide Nursing Week and in honor of that I have been nursing the baby all over kingdom come.

I did not set out to make any kind of statement, but we are on vacation with a four-month-old and so I am feeding her when she’s hungry, wherever that happens to be. So far I’ve nursed Isabel: at a rest stop in the Blue Ridge Parkway; on the DC Metro; at the Smithsonian (twice); at a Wendy’s... READ MORE 


Bring on the Calories!

I can't say no to you, milkshake.

Yesterday, I realized that six out of my last ten posts here have been food-related. I am a breastfeeding mother, can you tell?

Isabel is coming up on four months, and the nursing is going great. I am excited, because I haven’t made it this far with breastfeeding since baby no. 3. For a variety of reasons, I was not able to nurse boy no. 4 or no. 5 past the four-month mark which meant that I needed... READ MORE 


Is Breastfeeding Creepy?

How Sterile Sex Leads to Sterile Bottles

No woman should miss reading Genevieve Kineke’s most recent column at Catholic Exchange: Racks and Ruin

In it, Kineke examines an anti-breastfeeding article by Kathryn Blundell, editor of an Australian parenting magazine. In the article, Blundell explains her aversion to breastfeeding, even calling it “creepy.”

And when you have that attitude (and I admit I made no attempt to change it), seeing your... READ MORE 


‘Keeping Women Down’ With Breastfeeding

Is pro-nursing literature oppressive?

Well, well, well.

I suppose it was only a matter of time before I read a feminist, anti-breastfeeding article like Hannah Rosin’s The Case Against Breastfeeding in this month’s Atlantic (HT: Crunchy Con).

Rosin is unconvinced by medical evidence that breastfeeding is a superior form of nutrition for human babies. And she may have a point there. Some of the studies comparing breastfeeding to formula... READ MORE 


Giving Mothers Confidence

Aren't mothers grown ups?

Remember the conversation Lisa hosted a while back about hospitals giving away free formula to new mothers?

I was reminded of it recently when Simcha brought this blog post about treating mothers as grown ups by Veronica Mitchell to my attention.

Here’s a simple rule: if the problem is a lack of knowledge, then the solution is the supply of knowledge.  Explain it to them.  My overwhelming objection... READ MORE 


Supporting Breastfeeding

Local hospitals make a deliberate choice to promote breastfeeding

In the last few weeks, there was a good amount of publicity given in my hometown to a choice by local hospitals that will ultimately impact upon the number of mothers who choose to breastfeed their babies in California’s Central Valley.

According to this article in The Fresno Bee, local hospitals have made the decision to eliminate the practice of gifting new moms with freebie formula samples upon... READ MORE 


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