Motherhood: "The hardest job you will ever love!"
Philosophy: Through shared experiences, we believe women can learn and support each other while having fun!
Vision: While respecting the difference of each others' families, we can grow together.
Meetings: The club meets once a month. We will also have date nights, cooking classes, book clubs, charity work, play dates, and walking groups.
Suggested Meeting Topics: Nutrition, Vaccines, Child Development, Making Your Own Baby Food, Fashion, Skin Care, Interior Design, Personal Finance, Infant Massage, Love & Logic, Prenatal Care & Fitness, Marriage & Relationships, First Aid & Safety, Children's Literacy, Entertaining, Holiday & Children's Crafts, Gift Ideas, etc.
What To Think About For Each Meeting: Some of the meeting will take place in another location and will not be a standard meeting. For example, our September meeting will be our first "Date Night." For a standard meeting, please consider the following:
(Keep in mind, these are simply suggestions and we are not asking that you bring one from each category. Contribute as much as you wish! )
1. Gift Swap-Do you have a gift at home that someone else might find more useful? Bring it for our gift swap!
2. Pay It Forward-Have you read a really great article recently or any form of information that you would like to share with the group? If so, bring 20 copies to share at our next meeting!
3. Hot Tips-Have you heard of any fun fund raisers, cooking classes or any "Hot Tip" you want to post on our bulletin board to share with the group? If so, bring your tip with you to our meeting!
4. Idea Swap: Depending on the topic, it would be great if each guest brought an idea to share for our group conversation. Get your ideas down on paper and bring it along with you to the meeting to present to the group. If possible, make 20 copies to share or just bring your original and we can distribute copies for you at our next meeting.
Organizers: Amy & Danielle
About the Organizers: Danielle is a stay at home mom with three sons and a daughter. Amy is a part-time teacher with two sons. Both woman have bachelors and masters degrees in education.
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5 comments:
When my oldest was born my hubsand was on midnights. I hated her being "so far away" (down the hall) at night. So i kept her in my room. When she out grew the baby carrier i put her in bed with me, a few times, i enjoyed it BUT never got a good nights sleep. Now she is 3 and we have ocassioanlly allowed her to fall asleep with us. we always move her once she falls asleep. I do not see a huge problem with it. The only issues i see are, it is a hard habit to break once you start it is very hard for the baby to go to their own rooms, it puts a damper on your "one on one" time with the hubby, you do not get a restful nights sleep, and finally i think it teaches the child to need you to sleep. I see nothing wrong with allowing a child to sleep with you when they are sick or scared why not offer that comfort to them. I just would not start an every night thing it is hard to break, trust me!
kim
I agree it's not a healthy way to get kids to sleep in the beginning of the night (who has time to lay down at 7:30 every night anyway?!) It's not very practical. I do sleep with her if she is sick, or sometimes when she has been awake and crying for a long time and it's either i stand at her crib on my feet in the middle of the night and rub her back for 45 mins or we lay in bed and i do the same thing--it's more for me as I'd rather be lying down! I'm losing my guest room in a few months to a second child, so I'm not sure what I will do then!?!?!?
I belong to this group called the "Holistic Moms Group" and many of the woman in this group co-sleep with their children. It all comes from this style of parenting called "Attachment parenting." They say it creates a stronger bond. I def. find it interesting listening to their perspective. However, in our family, we do not sleep with our children...ever. Maybe we are selfish...we love our sleep!!! I am also deathly afraid of creating bad habits. Also, when the boys were babies our pulmonologist told us this horrid story about babies suffocating in their parents chests while sleeping. The parents did not even know! I guess babies don't move around when this is happening...it is really silent and still. This scared us to death and we vowed we wouldn't sleep with our babies.
A few times I did fall asleep for a 3am feeding, with Luke still on my boob. Sorry to be so graphic! :) I woke up an hour later only to realize he had fallen asleep too!
Poor sleep deprived moms are so desperate sometimes!!! :) :)
Danielle
Gavin is 4 years old and has never slept with us. I, like Danielle, am terrified of starting bad habits that I do not want to have to break. Also, we enjoy our sleep, our cuddle time with each other, and "making out" too much to have a child in between us :)I feel like we give Gavin tons of love and cuddle time during our waking hours, why bother when we are all asleep? Personally, co-sleeping is not for the Garcia Family.
-amy
funny Danielle, I did the same at a 4am feeding last night :) Normally though, I'm too terrified of my husband rolling over since he is such a hard sleeper.
I can definitely see how co-sleeping may be an "easier" option when they are babies, for nursing or especially for those of us who had to get up one million times to replace a lost paci! but as they grow I would think it could quickly become disastrous.
We let our toddler sleep with us on vacation last November (since she crawled out of the pack and play we really didn't have many options) and it took MONTHS to get her back to sleeping through the night in her own bed once we got home. We stuck it out and returned her to her bed several times every night - it made for a rough few months but in the long run it will be worth it, especially now that we have another one to tend to!
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