Another installment in the working/parenting series. I didn’t leave a tenured position as a college professor to “stay at home” with my child and “not work.” I left because I felt my body scream against the thought of not being with my child, and because I wanted to write. I wanted to write, and not the [...]
from Amanda Steen at NPR’s The Baby Project, “Birth: In the Comfort of Home” (a 20-year-old journalist’s account of witnessing a homebirth) What I can say, is that I definitely felt encouraged by one of Shannon’s midwives, Erin Fullam, who said to Linda and me, “People talk about how painful contractions are because they’re so [...]
Oh, swimming pools, what is with the people who run you? Pools may be the most rule-oriented place I go. There’s always that sign with the long list of rules in small print. So maybe they just get overexcited? For instance: a few years ago, my friend lived in a little community whose pool rules [...]
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links for thought, October 2011 (lazy miserable pregnant lady edition)
Too wiped out for excerpts, people: you’ll just have to trust me and click through. They’re great, so do. at An Honest Mom, “On Female Characters in Children’s Books” and “On Girls, Women and Dads in Picture Books” at The Pursuit of Harpyness (from Anna J. Cook), “What’s Missing from Sex Education?” at Public Health Doula, “Another [...]