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HB is crunchy for sure. But I have learned how to "borrow" some of the crunchy stuff and mold it into what works for me in my own less crunchy way! Like I baby wear, but only with really cute stylish carriers haha...we don't use them unless they're cute! Like our hot pink Bjorn for ex...H and I are all about function AND style lol!
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I make Hellobee look like Jif creamy. I would say there's enough crunch here to keep me reading, but, for the most part, I would say Hellobee is upper middle class crunchy (read: trendy-crunch) at most. I'm more of the hairy-armpitted hippy variety (read: unapologetically crunchy and don't really care/register if it makes others uncomfortable because it works for me). Now... of to shave before one of y'all hunts me down...
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I think it's very crunchy. DH and I are not crunchy.
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@Monkula: Hah, there! You might be crunchier than me!
P.S. I'm not upper-middle-class. Or trendy. Just crunchy. lol
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@Monkula: Hahaha, now THAT'S the kind of crunchy I'm used to!
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Agree with everyone that says its crunchier concentration that reality. But I live in south so that probably is the least crunchy region. I've learned a lot though - some things I'll implement, but probably mostly not gonna be a crunchy parent.
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@Monkula: Ha! Your reply made me laugh.
I think your description of Hellobee is spot on for me. I frequent another parenting board where the women are all about unassisted homebirths, growing/making the majority of their own food, day dreaming about the ideal little commune....
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@mrsjazz: yah i do think ny tends to be crunchy! our bike riding, food coop shopping, neighborhood definitely is!
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HB is definitely crunchier than me. With that said I don't follow any kind of guidelines for how I parent. I do what works best for us. Some things we do are crunchy, and others are the complete opposite.
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I think that hellobee is crunchier than 'society' but mainstream enough that there is something for everyone. Does that make sense?
I'd say I'm as crunchy if not crunchier than hellobee. We currently CD, babywear, cosleep, EBF but WOH, feed store bought purees and only buy organic when it comes to the dirty dozen.
That said, I would like to SAH, eat more oganically, placenta encapsulate and homebirth so....
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@Monkula: I don't think Hellobee is trendy crunchy. The parts of it that I see embraced most are options that are healthy, and options that are practical/useful.
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@katiew92081: yes! this! my girlfriends who are not into blogs/boards would classify me as super crunchy but i think i'm more middle of the road.
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I learned the term 'crunchy' on HB! I do think it's super crunchy but also very down-to-earth too. A healthy mixture! Personally I nowhere near as crunchy as the website but I am crunchier than I thought I'd be.
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@Arden: You are crunchy and vocal and I think people appreciate it!
I love the fact that you occasionally splurge on fast food...Taco Bell & McDonald's! You are human!
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I don't think HB is particularly crunchy, but I agree that it's trendy-crunchy. It's a good "crunchy" primer for the HB demographic.
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@MrBee-- what I meant by trendy-crunch is that it seems to espouse the crunch aspects that have gone mainstream-- homebirth (to a certain extent. It's at least on the radar now, where before it was viewed as scary/crazy (pre Business of Being Born), breastfeeding, co-sleeping in the non-extreme, babywearing, organic eating, etc. And I agree-- these aspects are things that are practical/useful and healthy, thus they have made it in the mainstream. However, there are other aspects, which could also be argued to be practical/useful and healthy but just from a different perspective, that are still seen as far left of center, and that, to me, is true unapologetic crunch. I wasn't trying to disparage, just to articulate how I feel about the site as a whole on the Monkula crunch scale.
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@travelgirl1: I'm crunchier than I thought I'd be too! I had never planned to babywear and never imagined EBFing would be SO important to me! And I'm paleo, which I like and learned about on here!
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@littlebittyhouse: Yeah! I plan to ebf and BLW and am going to a birth center, but I don't co sleep, I give my kid fast food, and I'm pretty mainstream on other issues. However, my bff thinks I'm super crunchy in comparison to her. Compared to others on here, I'm only middle of the road crunchy, lol.
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@Weagle: totally agreed!
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@Monkula: Yes, that is what I think of as crunchy--composting, growing your own food, hairy legs and armpits. (Ok, I have hairy legs right now but I would not let anyone see them and I am ashamed!)
I wouldn't say it's "trendy-crunchy" either--I would say health-conscious.
@Mrs. Bee: Yes! Your neighborhood would probably be considered the crunchiest of New York City neighborhoods. My pediatrician is in Park Slope--I love that I can whip out the boob in the waiting room and no one bats an eye!
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@PrincessBaby: ha ha, those examples are the same ones I'd use! I'm not paleo yet but am researching it. A is only ever in the Ergo these days and breastfeeding is super important to me, but then I've worked too hard at it for it not to be! I think my mum and sisters think I've turned into a hippy or something... But then they also said I was OTT for asking people to wash their hands before holding her. I didn't realise THAT was crunchy!!!
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Hellobee is somewhat crunchy to me, definitely more than I'd experience in real life. I'm not sure I'm all that versed in what what crunchy is though. I have no idea what's "trendy crunchy" vs. "hairy armpit crunchy", lol.
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I think on here people just use a lot of crunchy terms but don't really do anything that different than most moms.
Like baby wearing- i wouldn't use this term in real life, but almost every mom I know has some sort of baby carrier. Or BLW- most people I know do this, but would never call it BLW they would just say starting solids.
I do think HB is crunchier than me. There are a few trends on here that I"m not really into, but that is what is great about HB-lots of different ideas floating around.
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I think I am slightly less crunchy than the average user on HB, but so far I've really appreciated the different things I read here. Before I started reading baby boards (here and other places), I didn't even know these new, easier cloth diapers existed, for example. Now that I see how they've improved, my husband and I have already decided to give those a go.
I do think we have all walks of life represented here though, and that's nice. People post openly about trying CDing and then switching back to sposies for at night, or for diaper rash. or people talk openly about trying BFing and it not working out.
My husband would probably qualify as the same level of "crunchy" as HB, which is funny, because he's such a corporate kind of guy. BUT since he grew up in a developing country, he's all about things that the average american would be scared about---like, he'd be fine with me using even the old kind of cloth diapers (that's what his mom used), he'd be all about me having a med-free birth (those are more common in his country), etc. etc.
I'm not quite there yet. For me, my "crunchiness" factors all have to have anther benefit than just "good for health". I need it to be easier, cheaper, or something else to inspire me to do it.
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@travelgirl1: Really?!? I felt like people were/are taken aback that I am so anal about hand sanitizer and strangers getting too close...I didn't know it was a crunchy thing! Yeah, we spent a ton on the uppa baby vista bc I loved the idea of the bassinet for the first 6 mos and we baby wear and don't even use it! Hopefully we'll get our money out of it later! Or DH will kill me!
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Hellobee is definitely crunchier than me! I did a hospital birth with epidural (never even considered med free birth) I use disposable diapers, and co sleeping literally terrifies me. I do EBF but that's just a medical fact that it's best for my child so I don't consider that crunchy.
As far as the definition given I think I'm one of like six republicans on this site so politically I'm not nearly as crunchy as HB.
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@PrincessBaby: I don't know if it's anal or crunchy... Maybe both? Ha. But I do it anyway because I HATE the thought of germs near my precious girl. Same on the UPV, but A can't actually fit in it anymore (and she hated it). Hoping that we get our moneys worth in the end!
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<< I wasn't trying to disparage, just to articulate how I feel about the site as a whole on the Monkula crunch scale. >>
@Monkula: I think your mainstream vs not crunch scale is pretty accurate!
I do think "trendy crunchy" sounds a bit disparaging, but to each her own... just wanted to clarify what you meant. Thanks for the reply!
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I think Internet forums and sites like this are naturally crunchy because they attract people looking for solutions and information on things they hear elsewhere. That being said, I don't feel particularly crunchy because the "crunchy" things we do, we do because they're practical. We EBF because its cheaper and easier and I baby wear for my personal sanity (need to get out of house, DS doesn't fit into stroller, and around house DS is still little and needs to be held all the time). We'll BLW and make our own purées because its cheaper and tastier. But we also use disposables, co-room but not co-bed (except after the morning feeding, for the snuggles) and had a hospital birth with an epidural.
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I'm not very crunchy, but I probably have considered more crunchy tendencies since joining HB.
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Definitely crunchy, and I like @Monkula's assessment of HB - upper middle class crunchy. I love learning more about the 'crunchy' parenting ideas, especially since in my smaller TX town the crunchiest you get is a SAHM that EBFs and buys some organic food
I am pretty non-crunchy compared to most here, but in my town, just being a WOHM makes me outside the norm!
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i can honestly say i have never heard the term...
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I didn't apply to be a blogger for a while because I thought everyone else was a way better mom than I was. The thought of the laundry from three little butts in cloth diapers scared me to death. The first year of their lives we lived off of take out and hamburger meals. My kids watched tv during the day. So I felt I was much less crunchy than the rest of the HB community and bloggers. We are making some changes in our crunch level. I am working mostly with diet right now. We haven't had fast food in two months and I have made all dinners from scratch. So I think that bumps me up a bit in the crunchiness level but not much.
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I dont find it crunchy at all.
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@regberadaisy: According to this term I am not crunchy at all even though I know most HBers view me as crunchy. I am not left-leaning, environmentalist (though I care), tree-hugger etc...
I am crunchy more for health reasons than trend or even the earth. I do it for my family's health.
We coslept for 4 months, baby wear, BLW, eat somewhat organically (we would 100% if we could afford it), recycle, don't eat processed foods, CD'ed for 6 months and now use biodegradable diapers, EBF for year plus so far, DH bikes to work when it's nice out, conserve energy/heat etc...
I think that more than anything HB is supportive of so many different lifestyles that it may seem crunchy when really we're just supporting those who are AND those who aren't.
I grew up pretty crunchy in that all my family/friends homeschool and in turn followed crunchy stuff: my dad has a huge garden, composts, has chickens, etc and all my homeschooling friends babywear, cosleep and extended breastfeed. But it's come about as a health thing more than anything, or doing what "feels natural" to them. SO because of that I don't think of HB as really crunchy but I do think of it as supportive of the crunchy lifestyle.
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We don't have an LO yet, but I think we'll be about the same as you @MrBee - kinda crunchy for health's sake, but for the most part not so much. We've been kinda crunchy in our TTC journey trying to be super conscious of what I put in and on my body and I imagine that will get even more intense once we are expecting.
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I think it's crunchy! The boards moreso than the blog. I'm totally taboo though: had a scheduled c/s (for my first!), formula fed from the get-go, and have never attempted CIO or BLW. It all works for us though!
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@Mrs. Train: if i had four littles, you bet i'd be ordering takeout and have the tv on all the time!
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Not even sure what crunchy means, but I'll say hellobee is more so?
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@Mrs. Train: you're one of my favorite bloggers! I feel like all of your posts are so down to earth and realistic.
I am pretty non-crunchy compared to most here, but in my town, just being a WOHM makes me outside the norm!
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