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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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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>Who Said It&#8217;s Easier With One?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/who-said-its-easier-with-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 17:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[learning to walk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I frequently find myself conned by rose-colored memories of the days when Jake was my only child and things were just so easy.  Sure, I cried frequently, often felt shut-in and lonely, and was already pregnant and too late to go back the first time Jake played by himself without demanding parental involvement about a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Say Never, and Never Say, &#8220;What Is That?&#8221; if You Plan on Picking It Up</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/never-say-never-and-never-say-what-is-that-if-you-plan-on-picking-it-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 17:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bath time]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times, I&#8217;ve found, when, no matter how certain I was of my choice, the Universe was right there daring me to stick to it.  Telling me, in no uncertain terms, that I would be foolish to be that stubborn.
Take, for instance, bath time Thursday night.
It was then, in one, parenthood-requires-a-good-sense-of-humor flash that it [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ayurveda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bath time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bed time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being connected to everything]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communicating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daycare]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></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>The Triple Crown of Things That Make It Hard to Be a Parent</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/the-triple-crown-of-things-that-make-it-hard-to-be-a-parent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/the-triple-crown-of-things-that-make-it-hard-to-be-a-parent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daycare]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The triple crown of Things That Make It Hard to Be a Parent, as I have just now decided, is a marathon consisting of what at this moment strike me as the most frustrating parenting moments:
1)  Staying home with a sick child.  For a week.
2)  Staying home with a child who is finally well on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Winds with a Likelihood of Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/10/high-winds-with-a-likelihood-of-anxiety/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/10/high-winds-with-a-likelihood-of-anxiety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bed time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discomfort verus pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respecting your body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sleep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surrender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[observing mind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are those (my husband) who will think me a little bit nutty for saying this, but windy days breed anxiety.
One might suggest that I am simply looking for something other than my mother to blame my anxiety on.  And that may be the case.  But I have it on good authority &#8212; my acupuncturist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are We There Yet? (Part Two: Preschool Version)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet-part-two-preschool-version/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet-part-two-preschool-version/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daycare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sense of self]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stuck at home with a child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surrender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preschool graudation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the end-of-the-school year potluck in Jake&#8217;s preschool class.  Same summer-ish excitement that I recall from the end of my somewhat-older-than-two-and-a-half-years-old school years.  Same excuse to eat ice cream instead of lunch.  Same sense of happy displacement at having parents on the playground in the middle of the day.
Plus, as a mother, a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our First Stitches</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/06/our-first-stitches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/06/our-first-stitches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in eighth grade, my two best friends and I had an inexplicable obsession with the movie Kramer vs. Kramer.
We pined for Dustin Hoffman (must have been the feathered early-eighties hair).  Pre-VCR&#8217;s and DVD&#8217;s, we sat through it in the theater multiple times trying to memorize the dialogue.  We tracked down and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Day of School (Infant Remix)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/06/first-day-of-school-infant-remix/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/06/first-day-of-school-infant-remix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[surrender]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is how not to get ready for your baby girl&#8217;s first day of daycare:
First, while it might seem like a good idea at the time, I do not recommend spending the previous week visiting your mother-in-law in St. Louis, having a lovely time, receiving lots of help with child care, and generally forgetting why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Natural Thing in the World</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/04/the-most-natural-thing-in-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/04/the-most-natural-thing-in-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[intentions versus goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[surrender]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[domperidone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the most natural thing in the world?  Breastfeeding?  The naked human body?  Worms and cockroaches and creepy crawlies?  A little flatulence after a satisfying dinner of rice and beans?
Any one of them.  Except for breastfeeding.
This declaration, I know, sounds a bit aggressive, wounded perhaps, certainly not in keeping with the spirit of someone who [...]]]></description>
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