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		<title>Being with It All</title>
		<link>http://expectthebestbook.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/being-with-it-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that I want for expectant mothers is for it to be Okay for us to talk about our full range of emotions around pregnancy – the good, the bad, and the everything in between.  I want it to be okay for a woman to say that she’s not excited about the baby [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=594&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Including Others in the Birth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jenny chose to have a natural home birth with a midwife present.  This immediately made sense to her.  Her Mom had done it and therefore she felt she could too.  It wasn’t unfamiliar inside her family.  Her Mom had experienced a home birth and her mother-in-law had experienced a natural childbirth. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=587&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Starts with a Commitment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my husband and I started getting serious about considering when/if we were going to have kids, I started looking at what was holding me back.  I got straight with myself:  I wanted to have kids and I was terrified of being pregnant. 
I didn’t think that I’d be good at being pregnant. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=581&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birthin Them Babies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s blog entry is written by Debi.  Debi is a life coach, Children&#8217;s book writer (www.njoybooks.com), and regular blogger (www.njoybooks.com/sunnydays).  
Debi writes:  Angels woke me up the night Ellie was born to let me know that she was about to arrive.  I was asleep in one of our living room [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=572&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Having Conversations that We Have No Practice Having</title>
		<link>http://expectthebestbook.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/having-conversations-that-we-have-no-practice-having/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pregnancy is such a personal experience.  The thoughts and emotions are different for everyone.  It’s a common phenomenon that is experienced differently by each individual.  We don’t know how to relate to it.  
For example, a woman being less than enthusiastic about her pregnancy is a conversation that is not easy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=563&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Dad a Partner in Pregnancy</title>
		<link>http://expectthebestbook.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/making-dad-a-partner-in-pregnancy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently interviewed Stacey for the book and I was really inspired by how she created her husband as a co-parent from the very beginning – not after the baby was born, but from conception. He was a true partner during the pregnancy. I marveled at how clear she was that she needed to make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=548&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Judge Me From This Snapshot!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night my husband was walking with my 2-year-old daughter to the local playground. As they walked, they passed 2 ladies with 2 big dogs. Our daughter, as the big dogs got closer, got nervous. She started making little whimpering noises and raised her arms up to indicate to Dad that she wanted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=544&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I’m Attached to the Name!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is in a name? Why do I get so attached?
As I’ve talked with pregnant women lately about their name selection process, I’ve gotten present to how much I like McKenzie’s and Jake’s names. I think the names fit them so well. Really, I was puffing myself up about what a great job we did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=535&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Do You Talk To?</title>
		<link>http://expectthebestbook.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/who-do-you-talk-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leslie tends to be fairly open, transparent, and asks a lot of people their opinions. She certainly did this when she was considering adding to her family as a 44 year-old, recently divorced, single Mom. She asked others: What are the implications to the kid? What about the family? What about the sibling, because Leslie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=521&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music.  It&#8217;s therapeutic&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://expectthebestbook.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/music-its-therapeutic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music. It&#8217;s therapeutic, a mood lifter, a companion, a means of escape, a way to get in touch with our intuition, simply fun. Music can fulfill many purposes for us. I find that pregnant women often intentionally use music to help them feel good and get in touch with what they want.
I thought it would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=514&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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