Renee Rothberg's Blog, page 33

The Friendship Drift

Clouds float in the sky, each with its course and oscillation. The clouds float on their own courses, but join and separate when their courses intersect or diverge. The joining can be fleeting or it can last until the clouds are no more. The separating can be complete, with each cloud retaining its original form and content, or it can be wrenching, with one or both of the clouds pulling at the other’s shape and taking part away with it. Clouds can join in groups, staying together until they...

Keeping Resolutions

Resolutions are a beginning towards changing habits or unwanted aspects of our lives. Resolutions are broad and sometimes are too vague to bring success; however, resolutions can be doable when contracts are used for ensuring success.

Contracts for an Exemplary Life is a book filled with contract forms and examples that can be the basis for success with resolutions. The contracts can help with evaluating commitment to resolution goals and can bring focus to the steps needed to accomplish the...

A Poem for the New Year

Picturing ourselves as individual cycles in the billions of cycles that are people is one way for us all to feel part of the same flow of life.

Here is a poem from Connection that shares this idea:

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Mother’s Contribution through Antibody Gifting (Breastfeeding)

Feeding a baby, nourishing his or her tiny being, filling the body with enzymes and protein and carbohydrates and more. And antibodies. Antibodies to protect from the usual invaders and from the unexpected infiltrators. Antibodies to strengthen and to stabilize.

Mother’s milk nourishes the baby, adds protection to the baby, and binds the baby to the mother. Breastfeeding is all-in-one caregiving—food, warmth, and love all combined and all so easily delivered.

The newly born human body is des...

A poem for the winter

Winter is a time for restoration and reflection. Here is a poem about the winter from the book of poetry, Connection:

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Postpartum Depression

I was fortunate to deliver three healthy babies. After the second delivery, my baby was fed formula in the hospital (unbeknownst to me) and he wouldn’t nurse properly. On the second day in the hospital, I became angry and sad, and when I found out about the formula feedings, I hit the ceiling and created quite a scene at the hospital. They stopped feeding him the formula and I began breastfeeding him exclusively. I was still angry and sad, and blew up at the head doctor on the third day. Wit...

What the Fetus Feels

Here is what the fetus “feels” according to Spiritual Presence:

The mother’s laughter The mother’s tears The mother’s relaxation The mother’s enrapture at delightful smells Quiet focus from the mother, including speaking and singing The mother’s excitement when seeing someone she loves Gentle massage of the sides of the mother’s belly The mother’s heartbeat Rhythmic movements of the mother performed in meditative state Urgent communication from the mother (for example, when the mother feel...

Rules for a Pregnant Woman

Here is the information that Spiritual Presence wants all pregnant women to know.

Feel the changes in your body and with each change, marvel! During the pregnancy, let yourself be creative. The creating inside of you will inspire creativity. Talk to the baby in a soft voice. The baby can hear you. Prepare for the delivery by practicing breathing. The deeper the b-r-e-a-t-h-s, the more exercise for the abdominal muscles. Creating a life is exciting and fun. Enjoy the happy aspects. When you...

Becoming Sensitive to Assimilating the Galactose

Lactose intolerance is ostracizing in a society where dairy is venerated. Dairy is a major meal source in some countries, and the inability to eat dairy products causes inconvenience and misery. Dairy products can be ingredients in seemingly non-dairy products so that inconvenience and misery increase because of confusion about other foods.

Let’s look at how lactose intolerance applies to a baby:

A developing fetus grows through the stages of not-able-to-receive towards able to receive. The...

Serve the Booze to the Baby?

Moderate drinking during pregnancy? Wine? Beer? When celebrating? When depressed? With food? Instead of food? To celebrate the news? After seeing the first ultrasound? To forget the overwhelming physical changes? To get in the mood? To feel separate from the baby?

Doctors suggest non-consumption of alcoholic beverages during the entire pregnancy. Scientific tests are territorily bound, and what one study says in one country differs from a study in another country. The effects of drinking too...