Our journey to becoming a "crunchy" family.

When Dallas made his way into our life we started "changing" almost everything we had learned before because the whole society is mainstream. You bottle-feed, you vaccinate your children, they sleep alone, sleep train them, put them on a schedule, put them in their pack n play, and so on and so on.

We started becoming "crunchy" 2.5 years ago when Cali arrived on 08/08/08. We knew right away we wanted to breastfeed, co-sleep and babywear, a few months pasted and I bought my first CLOTH DIAPERS. I was ecstatic! We also started our EC journey at 12 months!

We got pregnant when Cali was 16 months, and I knew from the moment I found out it was a BOY! So another "crunchy" item to add to the list, we knew we definitely were NOT going to circumcise, we wanted to keep our precious baby whole and intact. After all, that is normal! God created boy's to have foreskins for a reason.

After Dallas was born, he was kept whole, in cloth diapers, being breastfed & we were babywearing. I started looking up more ways to be natural & crunchy. I wish I knew about vaccinations before both of my children were born. But I can happily say we are not vaxing anymore after many talks and researching ingredients. The risks are not worth it. Moving on I had mentioned to my mother in-law that I wanted to make my own organic baby foods due to recent research on jarred foods that contain pesticides. My mother in-law got my a baby food mill, and my Grandma sent a gift card & a awesome book on how to make baby food. I had looked up some recipes before but its pretty simple unless you are trying to combine flavors. With the gift card I bought the Magic Bullet, and it makes the best puree's!

It's official...I AM A CLOTH DIAPERiNG, BABYWEARING, BREASTFEEDING, INTACTIVIST AKA NON CIR'ING, ATTACHMENT PARENTING, NON-VAXING, ORGANIC BABYFOOD MAKING, ERFing, EC, CO-SLEEPING CRUNCHY MOMMA! (oh and we are doing water births from here on out..wahoo! )