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	<title>Lunapads Blog &#187; Birthing, Babies and Parenting</title>
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		<title>Lunapads Tips for Postpartum Healing</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/01/lunapads-portpartum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey all of you Luna-Mamas out there! Menstruation is a daily topic around our office and a big part of that for many women is pregnancy and birthin’ babies. Many of our first time customers come to us looking for an alternative to those icky hospital-issue postpartum pads for their postpartum bleeding. As a Doula [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunapads &amp; Hot Mama Gowns Giveaway!</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/lunapads-hot-mama-gowns-giveaway/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/lunapads-hot-mama-gowns-giveaway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have teamed up with Hot Mama Gowns to offer you a double-giveaway! Enter below for your chance to win your very own Hot Mama Gown and/or 1 of 3 Lunapads Sampler Packs. Log in with your Facebook account, or enter using your name and email address. Contest ends first thing Friday, December 30th at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help us support girls and women in Uganda!</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/pads4girls-uganda-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeleine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regular readers will be aware, over the past decade Lunapads has been developing the Pads4Girls program to bring reusable feminine hygiene supply kits to thousands of girls and women in need in over 15 countries. Pads4Girls seeks to address an often-overlooked problem that hundreds of millions of girls and women in developing nations face: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunapads in Uganda with Natalie</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/shantiugandanatalie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[postpartum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reusable Pads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shanti Uganda Foundation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shanti Uganda is a fantastic organization that improves infant and maternal health, provides safe women-centered care and supports the well-being of birthing mothers and women living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. In addition to that, they havebeen a Pads4Girls distribution partner for years now, providing cloth pads to girls through their Holisitic Health programmes and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sputniko&#8217;s Menstruation Machine</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/men-menstruate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am all for Modern Art and think MoMa’s current exhibit, Talk to Me, on how our fast changing world is always in communication with us is brilliant.  As much as I am one of those who need to get out of the city every couple of weeks to recharge in nature, I love and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How does your partner feel about Lunapads?</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/partners-lunapads-users/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/partners-lunapads-users/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=5763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lunapanties Giveaway! How does your partner feel about you using Lunapads? Are they supportive? Not so much? Post a comment about your own experience and you could win a pair of  Lunapanties in the style of your choice! THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU ALL FOR PARTICIPATING! We had someone post on our Facebook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Stuff Together review &amp; giveaway</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/07/make-stuff-together-giveaway/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/07/make-stuff-together-giveaway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeleine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birthing, Babies and Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books and Music Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craft book]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=5038</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard about Make Stuff Together through the marvelous Sarah Juliusson, a longtime Lunapads supporter whose resume in the natural birth/parenting/lifestyle/business department is too long to begin to list here. Suffice to say that when she asked if I&#8217;d like to review a book about crafting with kids I jumped at the chance. Many of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>BirthFest: A Community Love Fest</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/02/birthfest-community-love-fest/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/02/birthfest-community-love-fest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birth lounge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, our good friends at the Birth Lounge are hosting what is now their 5th annual BirthFest event and Lunapads is proud to be a community sponsor. Frustrated with the expensive corporate trade shows (ie: wedding and baby shows, love and sex shows) a group of progressive practitioners and entrepreneurs dreamt of  a  &#8220;truly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A tribute to Mothering Magazine</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/02/mothering/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/02/mothering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lunapads.com/blog/?p=543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was just only last week that I was reminded by Lisa that I had a draft blog post about Mothering Magazine that still needed to be published. Long overdue (I started it 2 years ago!) I rationalized that I would finish it next month upon returning from the Natural Products Trade Show because I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lunagals, Non-Conformity and Dangerous Ideas</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/02/lunapads-nonconformity/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/02/lunapads-nonconformity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeleine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules Live the Life You Want and Change the World]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[World Domination Summit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lunapads.com/blog/?p=2431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have probably already heard of Chris Guillebeau and his wonderful book, the Art of Non-conformity: Set your own rules, Live the life you want and Change the world. For those of you who know of him and are also Lunapads and DivaCup fans, it will come as no surprise that I find [...]]]></description>
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