I’m so angry, I’m shaking right now. I was pointed to this article and I made the mistake of reading the comments. And then leaving a couple hundred of my own. A few of the particularly infuriating things: 1. One commenter said home birth was bad because illegals could then have unregistered babies. Uh. 2. […]
This is a perpetual, vicious cycle that I know many of you can relate to. For the past month, I’ve been trying to make a decision and going back and forth so much it’s maddening. I was determined to let my bangs grow out again, right? RIGHT? I swore I would! But I even told […]
I started writing that last post a couple weeks ago – and as I was writing, I kept thinking (as I often do about such things), “DON’T SAY THIS! YOU’LL JINX IT!” But do I ever listen? Nooooooo… So I jinxed it, instead. I started to write this a couple weeks ago, and I came […]
This wasn’t intentionally for mother’s day, I just happened to read this, this morning – about how (or if) birth influences you as a mother. I don’t know, for me if Nugget’s birth INFLUENCED how I mother, so much as it was an indicator of how I would be as a mother. The postpartum doula […]
A friend just pointed me to a whole series of articles about the mother/baby bond from Scientific American. The first one I read is this one, about how “bottle-feeding mimics child loss in women’s brains.” I found this one particularly interesting, thinking about a previous rant of mine, regarding women who CHOOSE to pump exclusively […]
This infuriates me on so many levels. Not sure why they only make chocolate flavor for 12 months and up? Hell, why not start them on crap food and sugar & fake flavor at 3 months? If you have a child that’s 12 months old (or any age) and are contemplating giving this to them, […]
This morning I was laying in bed, still thinking about the “passing around the baby” thing. Actually, I haven’t stopped thinking about it all week, I’m still just that angry. (It’s got something to do with boundaries and a lot of psychological mumbo jumbo, but apparently the fact that I’m so angry is a good […]
I just read this article about “underground milk sharing” in Seattle magazine. Human breast milk this time, not raw cow or goat milk. And oh boy, did I have a few laughs while reading it. It sounds almost completely interchangeable with an article about raw milk – right down to the big organzations (FDA, La […]
One of the first things they talked about during the portion of the midwifery conference that I attended last week, was how to balance having a family & home life with being a midwife. I knew that there was a lot of time & sacrifice involved (being on call, getting calls at 3 am by […]
I just got back, this past Sunday, from a week at my parents’. The flight there was four and a half hours and the flight back was supposed to be 6 but wound up being 5. Good time. I was nervous, flying by myself with Nugget. It was an incredible hassle – because security is […]
I went old skool today. I’d left my laptop at home because it would be nearly impossible to carry both my laptop AND a 17lb child through the airport. And it’s been killing me. I’ve been itching to get this “faces of raw milk” site up and running. I’ve also been soliciting for submissions and […]
As raw milk is something I feel VERY strongly about and I fear losing it completely here in the US, I’m working on a new website & I’d like your help. it’s called “The Faces of Raw Milk”. If you drink raw milk and especially if you give it to your child/infant, as I do, […]
