A Happy Event: a beautiful–but worrying–French film about the adjustment to motherhood in a hostile social and cultural environment.
Category Archives: postpartum period
still recovering: on my path out of a dreadful pregnancy
For the first sixth months of Simon’s life, I wondered: How long will I feel relieved every.single.day not to be nauseated and flattened? My pregnancy continued to loom large. Physically and emotionally, I was recovering–not from the birth, but from the difficult, unpleasant pregnancy. And then, sometime around the six-month mark, the intensity gradually ebbed. [...]
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links for thought, April 2013 (2 of 2)
from Summer at Midwives, Doulas, Home Birth, Oh My!, “Discretion Can Kiss My Breast” (on Missouri Senate Bill 87, “discretion,” and the right to breastfeed) from Jody Peltason at The Atlantic, “Before I Forget: What Nobody Remembers About New Motherhood” Don’t get me wrong—it’s an important question that we should keep asking ourselves and each [...]