HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOAH!

Today Noah turns 1. I can't believe a whole year has gone by. I never imagined how much my life would change since Noah has come into this world. Not just in the normal "now I have a baby" kind of way, but he has completely changed my whole way of thinking. I always knew I wanted children, but I always imagined myself feeding him or her a bottle, changing their disposable diaper, feeding them jars of baby food, etc.

When I found out that I was expecting, I did lots and lots of research. I decided that I hated pain medicines (I generally don't like any kinds of medications). So because of that, I decided to do a natural birth. That's when I chose the Bradley Method. I was very insistent that I wasn't into any of that crunchy all natural stuff though, although I did want to breastfeed, if I could. Through the Bradley classes, I learned more about breastfeeding and realized that anyone can breastfeed and so at that point, I was determined.

My birth went completely as planned and breastfeeding got off to a rocky start, but going ok. I started going to monthly La Leche League meetings and weekly nursing groups at Kangaroo Kids. Through those meetings, I realized how many other mamas use cloth diapers and started exploring that territory and now I love using the cloth. We also decided to make our own baby food and babywear. While co-sleeping never really worked for us, everything else was all attachment parenting.

I was so adamently against attachment parenting, even at day 1 of being a mom. But the more I was a mom, the more the true "mama" came out. The one that is all about attachment parenting. Ok, enough reminising, time for pictures.


Noah in his birthday outfit.



This was taken the morning after his birth. Look how peaceful he looks.

He's grown a lot in just a year and I can't wait to see what this second year has in store.