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		<title>When Good Girls Go Mad</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/11/when-good-girls-go-mad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written.  (Blame the novel.  Or don&#8217;t blame the novel, just read it when it&#8217;s finished.)  A lot has happened.  Lily is speaking in three-word sentences &#8212; &#8220;Jake eat pasta&#8221; is a common one; &#8220;Man is gone?&#8221; a particularly clever way of saying she can&#8217;t find the man in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Balm (even works on yet more stitches)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/08/the-best-balm-even-works-on-yet-more-stitches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The anxiety began, I&#8217;m pretty sure, a couple of Fridays ago, the day I took Lily to the doctor to check on the brand spanking new set of stitches put into her forehead by the lovely resident in the emergency room.
The doctor was a nice man, we had a nice chat, and he declared Lily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Matching Set, or Our Second Stitches</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/08/my-matching-set-or-our-second-stitches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think Jake tells it best:
&#8220;Mommy yelled, &#8216;LILY!&#8217; and she fell off the porch and all the blood came out of her head.&#8221;

It was one of those rare moments of parenting that are as exciting and dramatic as in the movies &#8212; I&#8217;m put in mind of the scene in Kramer vs. Kramer when Justin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Wonder Woman and I Have in Common: It&#8217;s Not What You Think</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/07/what-wonder-woman-and-i-have-in-common-its-not-what-you-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who somehow missed the news, last week Wonder Woman unveiled her new look.
When I saw her picture, two thoughts flashed across my mind in quick succession:  First, she dresses a whole lot like me.  Second &#8212; and this is the one that stuck, overcoming any embarrassment the first ought to impart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The $300 Nap</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/06/the-300-nap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who read my last post are no doubt wondering if I ever made it home to North Carolina or if I chose, instead, to raise Lily in California until she is old enough to watch DVD&#8217;s of The Backyardigans with her brother for six or seven hours at a stretch.  Or perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does That Macaque Have Frequent Flyer Miles?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/06/does-that-macaque-have-frequent-flyer-miles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/06/does-that-macaque-have-frequent-flyer-miles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I read an article in the New York Times about a new study of male Barbary macaques. Seems these guys love to care for babies &#8212; grab &#8216;em from their mothers and haul them around to male pow wows.  Doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s their own baby; any infant will do.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Circle</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/full-circle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ayurveda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bath time]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[being connected to everything]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[discomfort verus pain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing YogaMamaMe since Jake was younger than Lily is now.
This makes me think a lot of things:  How quickly time passes when you have kids.  How scary it is to watch time pass so quickly, especially when you have kids.  And how I seem to be repeating myself.
Take last night, for instance.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Careful What You Wish For (2010 Version) &#8212; I Still Want to Hug Him</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/careful-what-you-wish-for-2010-version-i-still-want-to-hug-him/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/careful-what-you-wish-for-2010-version-i-still-want-to-hug-him/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me this morning, as I wandered the empty kitchen feeling just a little bit sick over leaving my son in his new classroom, that this surely must not be the first time I&#8217;ve thought to myself, &#8220;Careful what you wish for.&#8221;
Surprisingly, it turns out I last wrote those words nearly a year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If Practicing Compassion Toward Yourself Means Not Being Compassionate Toward Your Child?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/what-if-being-compassionate-toward-yourseldf-means-not-being-compassionate-toward-your-child/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/what-if-being-compassionate-toward-yourseldf-means-not-being-compassionate-toward-your-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did it for the first time last night.
Never, in Jake&#8217;s three-plus years or Lily&#8217;s one have I even considered letting my baby cry him or herself to sleep.
Last night I did.  I let Lily cry herself hoarse and shaking for a good forty-five minutes.
And you know what?  It didn&#8217;t work.

It&#8217;s My Sleep Too
There was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At What Point Are There So Many Boundaries That I Can&#8217;t Find My Way to My Child&#8217;s Heart?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/at-what-point-are-there-so-many-boundaries-that-i-cant-find-my-way-to-my-childs-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a heady moment of deja vu this morning.
There I was, crouched over my son in his car seat, using my knee to push his arching body back into place as I struggled to buckle him in and heard a gutteral voice that sounded suspiciously like my own hissing, &#8220;You sit down NOW!  Do [...]]]></description>
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