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		<title>Thank You for Being a Mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Mom I have a lot for which to be grateful.  Right now, I’m most conscious of the texture and color my children bring to my life.  I get to think about why the world is organized the way that it is organized in order to answer all the “Why?” and “What’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=607&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enjoy It Your Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I talk and write about the importance of thriving during pregnancy – of finding ways to have each woman enjoy the process of being pregnant. I spend time and energy thinking about how that happens – how we can support each woman to discover ways that work for her to enjoy pregnancy.  
I realize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=601&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This message is going out to those of you who have been interviewed for the book graciously sharing your story. 
I had an interview myself with the Editor of My Healthy Beginning magazine earlier this week and as I chatted with her about the purpose of Expect the Best while You’re Expecting and shared about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expectthebestbook.wordpress.com&blog=3953014&post=596&subd=expectthebestbook&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being with It All</title>
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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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		<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>
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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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