After giving birth to my daughter and finding myself with a new body, one that wasn’t exactly in a state of health, fitness and well being, a question came up within me: How can I accept my body if I want to change it? We’re bombarded with suggestions of accepting ourselves and accepting our bodies, …
As soon as Syntia started exploring solids, we’ve let her decide what she wants to eat. Initially she was mostly interested in a small selection of fruits, but she quickly expanded her tastes and interests to a large and varied range of foods. Sometimes her choices seem odd to me, like choosing a tomato as …
Maite continues to share how her decision to value herself and her body opened up a process of questioning her understanding and approach to exercising. As she asked herself questions and answered them, she found herself straying further and further off the beaten path, eventually changing her way of exercising into something she had never …
After gaining a lot of weight during her pregnancy, the road to health awaited Maite after giving birth. In this video, she shares her experience of trying to exercise in her new, overweight body and how her redefinition of the word Value supported her to change her approach to exercising completely. Here is the link …
Another joy of motherhood… A few months after giving birth, my hair started getting very brittle, and much of it is falling out as well,as you can see from the brush. The other pic shows a frikkin dreadlock that started forming at the back of my head. Granted, I hadn’t showered in about a week …
This was my hand about a week ago. What happened?? Nothing really, just me holding my baby that is ever getting heavier lol. With Syntia’s teething and her wanting to spend more time with me and on me, first my wrist started hurting and later on my thumb joint. Felt exactly like a sprain. After …
A woman’s body goes through amazing and major changes during pregnancy. Living through these changes and seeing the effects of pregnancy on your body is one thing – but what about after the brith? Some women’s bodies seemingly jump right back into shape, but this is definitely not the case for all women. Maite shares …
In my previous blogs I walked through how my general experience of finding out that I was pregnant and how it was negatively tinted, because of how I had associated memories from my past where pregnancy has been in a negative context. Once I realised that pregnancy isn’t ‘bad’, ‘wrong’ or ‘negative’ through understanding where …
This post is a continuation to ‘Crap. I’m Pregnant’. At the end of the post I said I would be looking into some of the reactions and my experience within finding out that I was pregnant. So the most predominant experience around finding out that I was pregnant was a definitive negative one. I immediately …
![Cesar gave Syntia his train tracks about a year ago, and before they were hers, she would play with them together with Cesar. She's had a ton of time to learn the different pieces, how to put them together and build a track, but for some reason, she DID NOT want to build a track by herself and most of all preferred to just watch as someone else built the track for her.
Lj and I knew she was perfectly capable of building a track for herself and we tried to support her to start small and show herself that she can do it. Or that we'd be here if she gets stuck, but she can at least try on her own. Any such attempts, however, were met with an absolute and firm refusal. So, we did it with her, or for her.
We started wondering, is this little girl really just taking advantage of us at this point? Are we entertaining this too much? Should we push harder? We knew she could do it, she knew she could do it, but for some reason she just didn't want to do it, at least, not yet.
And then one day, out of the blue, she takes out her blocks and starts building a track... by herself. Lj quietly waived me over, pointing at her, then signing 'shhht', lol - didn't want to disturb the moment. The track you see in the pic is the first one she built by herself. It wasn't a "beginner's" track like a simple circle or a straight line, it was a more intricate design laid out exactly and precisely how she wanted it to be, including all the elements she wanted to have as a part of it. Kabam, out of the blue.
There are other things where Syntia 'took her sweet time', like learning how to walk and potty training, where it was clear at some point that she was able to do it, but for some reason, pulled back or didn't want to do it all by herself just yet. It's so easy as parents to freak out over that, to think that children should develop skills in a particular way, like 'starting small' or doing something by yourself as soon as you're able to. But not all kids are the same in this. [Continued in comments..]](https://scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/135216034_868657797266702_107582540258970761_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=5qvWorAaQU0AX_Qrjn2&_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfDa1vIk6Qhk_1PDgoVXTtJDmGgcHTiP-4__UARGzUY8gw&oe=647E3CD2)
