Diane looks great and her son is adorable but wouldn’t all of us Moms look fantastic and feel great if we had a babysitter (nanny) for 5 HOURS a day AND help with housework and laundry? I’d love for her to walk a day in MY shoes!

We also used Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron. It’s a great starting point reference for making your own foods. I especially loved that it had month by month lists from 6 months – 12 months of foods to introduce. It really helped me develop a variety of things to feed my daughter. Now at 15 months – she eats anything and everything, and even my husband and I have expanded our diets as well!

While it is common for women in the U.S. to get an epidural during labor, lots of us go the natural route with midwives and sometimes doulas. Unfortunately there is a tendency to medicalize childbirth — a lot of O.B.’s seem afraid of natural childbirth and actively discourage it. What is the epidural rate in the U.K.?

clemmie: a fair number of women here do use midwives. and we’ve read a lot about women doing natural births at a hospital. personally, i feel safer being in a hospital environment when i have my baby than at home, in case anything goes wrong. but then again, i have a disability so the hospital is really my only option, haha.

im confused, as a midwife in the uk it is not the norm for women to opt for an epidural, we practice natural birth. it seems in the US that giving birth is not possible without a epidural? why are these women so impowered by doctors? you need midwives over there to deliver babies.

Beckett is so cute!! Sad to hear that Diane is leaving Numb3rs though.

I really like Diane on Numb3rs and she seems so down to earth in real life. Plus, Beckett is adorable:)

Hi!
I am posting this here because I am in a hurry, sorry…
A celebrity baby, Tiger Lily, you know her right? Well she is like ten now LOL!
Anyway:
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/tiger-lilys-white-and-bright-at-her-nannys-wedding-1333657.html
I hope I helped a tiny bit with your website

Sofia

He’s adorable.

I look forward to her book. She seems like she’d be a good writer and have interesting reflections on family and parenthood.

Sorry if I’m the only one to ask but what’s a doula?

Sarah’s note: From Wiki: A doula is an experienced, non-medical assistant who provides physical, emotional and informed choice support in prenatal care, during childbirth and during the postpartum period. You can have one for all three stages, or just choose one for birth or one for postpartum care, etc.