Eclectic Muddlehood

It is a sad scene, often repeated over and over again in this country with a terribly messed up birth culture.  A mother learns she is pregnant with multiples.  Her thoughtless, institutionalized doctor fills her head and heart with crushing, fear inducing phrases- high risk, preterm labor, bed rest, preeclampsia, mandatory c-section, TTTS, long NICU […]

As I wedge my index finger between Master F’s stubborn jaws to pry a gray green cough drop out from between his teeth, I marvel at the wonder of it all.  The Master and Mistress of Destruction provide me with daily reminders of the amazing nature of biodiversity.  The entire Triad of Chaos emerged powerfully […]

Part 1 available here
In a matter of hours the Master and Mistress will officially be 18 months old and my heart whispers forcefully that I can wait no longer.  The past reaches out and tugs frantically at me, not to harm me any further, but to grab tightly to my attention and force me to focus on what […]

I was driving home from an incredibly difficult birth at one of the area’s busiest hospitals early on November morning when I felt an overwhelming, swirling sense of energy in my womb, right about at my sacral chakra. I could see the energy dance and spin in my mind’s eye, a brilliant orange. My doula […]

IT HAPPENED!! I have been struck with the dreaded matching disease. We usually buy all our kids’ clothes through consignment shops and sales, but I have suddenly been struck with the overwhelming obsessive desire to hunt down and accquire matching and coordinating outfits for my twins. I swear I didn’t think this would happen to […]

So here’s the way I most recently discovered I can sling both babies. They seem to be very happy like this because they can look out and observe the world around them. These are both pouch slings and this is called the kangaroo carry.

“You’re dripping with babies!” my sister exclaimed as I put both twins into slings at the same time at the park today. Yes, you can babywear twins! Here is the first way I figured out how to do it. My baby girl is in the gold pouch sling in the cradle hold and my baby […]

The average American twins are born at 36 weeks gestation or earlier and weigh no more than 5lbs 4oz at birth. These tiny premature babies often spend a considerable amount of time in a neonatal intensive care unit at great financial and emotional expense to their parents. Although our twins’ birth was anything but ideal, […]

Life is simply a series of rites of passage. There is the time preparing for them, the time spent enduring and completing them and the time processing them before beginning the cycle once again. What I never realized before was that there is something to be learned, not only after the completion of the rite, […]