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05/09/14

This Mother’s Day marks a milestone for me and my baby—my first (and so far only) child just turned one year old, and I have continued exclusively breastfeeding him for one whole year, in spite of the two fibromas in my right breast.

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To-wen Tseng

Blog Carnivals

05/09/14

My mom has taught me that in life you’ve always got to give of yourself first. She pushed through as a single mom to give me the best bilingual education there was. My mom always somehow managed to be there for us, even though she had to make it work. Once she remarried things were a bit different...

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Ana Flores

Blog Carnival!

Blog Carnivals

05/09/14

This Mother’s Day, celebrities, politicians, and others including First Lady Michelle Obama, Arianna Huffington, Christy Turlington Burns, Mayim Bialik, Representative Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, Leader Nancy Pelosi, Emily Saliers (of the Indigo Girls), CraigsList founder Craig Newmark and others are sharing the important lessons they learned from their mothers in the first-ever MomsRising Celebration of Mothers!

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Environmental Health Food! Health Care Politics & Policy

05/09/14

When problems seem overwhelming for our children, we remind them to take things “one day at time.” Amazingly, their problems often don’t seem so big or so overwhelming anymore. may20DoA.jpg On May 20, 2014, you and your family can join me and my family and thousands of other folks around the world...

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Harriet Shugarman

Blog Carnivals

05/09/14

My mom is my best friend. She gave me the confidence to believe I could do anything.

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Fran Drescher

Health Care Politics & Policy

05/08/14

Minnesota will soon join the other 19 states that have adopted laws to limit the shackling of pregnant women in prison.

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Rachel Roth

Environmental Health

05/08/14

It’s a sad day for those of us in Connecticut who feel strongly that more needs to be done to protect children from toxic chemicals. A bill that would have tasked the Department of Public Health (DPH) with developing a list of chemicals of high concern to children was never called for a vote on the...

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Michelle Noehren

Blog Carnivals

05/08/14

Mami has been gone for three years now. And every day, at least once a day, I am reminded of something she said, some lesson she passed on. Who's Your Family? The biggest lessons were from that last year. Where we spoke of family and friends and the definition of each. The fact that Mami had...

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Sili Recio

Blog Carnivals

05/08/14

When I was in elementary school, my mom (an artist) and I (decidedly not an artist) entered a recycled art contest being held in a local park.

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Susanna Birdsong

Childcare & Early Education

05/08/14

I have recently started blogging for the great organization MomsRising.org. They have asked us bloggers to write something this week on 'What I Learned From My Mom' in honor of Mother's Day. What a daunting task this is! I'm fortunate in that I have a lot to say on this topic but it is bittersweet...

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