Margaret McKinley Owens is one of the most experienced birth and postpartum doulas in the Twin Cities! While an increasing number of women are seeking help from a professional doula during the first three trimesters of pregnancy, many women admit that help is most useful in the fourth trimester the postpartum phase.

On Monday, February 13, 2012. Today was your first kindy session. You are doing early entry, so for two terms before starting it full time you have a two hour session a week. I have to admit, I was nervous. As it was getting closer to leaving time I felt sick and my hands were shaking. You were so excited though, standing near the door waiting for it to be time to go. You were doing drawings with the other children, had read a book about an octopus and made a caterpillar. I am so proud of you.

Planning a Vacation with Young Children. Here is some good advice from one of my readers, Kendra Thornton, a mother of three and a former Orbitz Director of Communications. Planning On Uncontrollable Parts of Your Vacation. In Walt Disney World, offer quiet hours to ensure families get the proper and a seamless nights sleep! Travel, especially by car, means children get very little exercise, but it is easy to incorporate exercise into a long car ride by making frequent stops at parks or rest areas where .

Saturday, June 27, 2009. An open letter to Mothering Community. The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.