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	<title>Lunapads Blog &#187; Birthing, Babies and Parenting</title>
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	<description>Periods, Politics &#38; Personalities</description>
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		<title>Lunapads and the Great Cloth Diaper Change</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/04/lunapads-great-cloth-diaper-change/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/04/lunapads-great-cloth-diaper-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birthing, Babies and Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/04/lunapads-great-cloth-diaper-change/' addthis:title='Lunapads and the Great Cloth Diaper Change ' ><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium" ></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>Lunapads has always had a soft spot for cloth diaper-ers. Cloth Diapering often opens the door for conversations about reusable menstrual products with moms. You might say that cloth diapers are the &#8220;gateway drug&#8221; that lead moms to Lunapads! We&#8217;ve been busy all month sending out coupons and door prizes to over 50 locations of [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/04/lunapads-great-cloth-diaper-change/' addthis:title='Lunapads and the Great Cloth Diaper Change '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>AppleCheeks Cloth Diaper Giveaway</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/04/applecheeks-giveaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=8359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/04/applecheeks-giveaway/' addthis:title='AppleCheeks Cloth Diaper Giveaway ' ><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium" ></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING! PLEASE USE THE PROMO CODE &#8216;APPLECHEEKS&#8217; TO RECEIVE $5 OFF ANY ORDER OVER $35 PLACED ON LUNAPADS.COM. SHOP NOW What&#8217;s so great about cloth? Here&#8217;s what Amy at AppleCheeks has to say! Are cloth diapers really better than throwaways? They sure are! In case you’re still [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/04/applecheeks-giveaway/' addthis:title='AppleCheeks Cloth Diaper Giveaway '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Motherhood, menstruation and men</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/03/motherhood-menstruation-men/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/03/motherhood-menstruation-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birthing, Babies and Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girls and Teens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pads4Girls]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=7828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/03/motherhood-menstruation-men/' addthis:title='Motherhood, menstruation and men ' ><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium" ></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>I had always planned on having kids and feel very blessed to have 2 wonderful boys. As much as I would have loved to share the whole &#8216;first period experience&#8217; with a daughter, I&#8217;ve had the period conversation with my boys. I mean, how could it not come up given both boys came to work [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/03/motherhood-menstruation-men/' addthis:title='Motherhood, menstruation and men '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Lunapads Tips for Postpartum Healing</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/01/lunapads-portpartum/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/01/lunapads-portpartum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birthing, Babies and Parenting]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=7369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/01/lunapads-portpartum/' addthis:title='Lunapads Tips for Postpartum Healing ' ><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium" ></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2012/01/lunapads-portpartum/' addthis:title='Lunapads Tips for Postpartum Healing '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Birthing, Babies and Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Businesses We Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contests & Giveaways]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=7122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/lunapads-hot-mama-gowns-giveaway/' addthis:title='Lunapads &#38; Hot Mama Gowns Giveaway! ' ><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium" ></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/lunapads-hot-mama-gowns-giveaway/' addthis:title='Lunapads &#38; Hot Mama Gowns Giveaway! '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/pads4girls-uganda-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeleine</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=6901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/pads4girls-uganda-2012/' addthis:title='Help us support girls and women in Uganda! ' ><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium" ></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>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: [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/12/pads4girls-uganda-2012/' addthis:title='Help us support girls and women in Uganda! '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Lunapads in Uganda with Natalie</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/shantiugandanatalie/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/shantiugandanatalie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shanti Uganda Foundation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=5939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/shantiugandanatalie/' addthis:title='Lunapads in Uganda with Natalie ' ><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium" ></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/shantiugandanatalie/' addthis:title='Lunapads in Uganda with Natalie '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Sputniko&#8217;s Menstruation Machine</title>
		<link>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/men-menstruate/</link>
		<comments>http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/men-menstruate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism & Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[menstrual liberation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[modern art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the red tent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=5982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/men-menstruate/' addthis:title='Sputniko&#8217;s Menstruation Machine ' ><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium" ></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/men-menstruate/' addthis:title='Sputniko&#8217;s Menstruation Machine '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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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[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/partners-lunapads-users/' addthis:title='How does your partner feel about Lunapads? ' ><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium" ></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/09/partners-lunapads-users/' addthis:title='How does your partner feel about Lunapads? '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lunapads.com/blog/?p=5038</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/07/make-stuff-together-giveaway/' addthis:title='Make Stuff Together review &#38; giveaway ' ><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium" ></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>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 [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://lunapads.com/blog/2011/07/make-stuff-together-giveaway/' addthis:title='Make Stuff Together review &#38; giveaway '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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