motherhood

Showing Appreciation for Underappreciated Posts

January 1, 2009




For my first blog post of the New Year, I have decided to give back to my followers. I asked on twitter for people to send me links to their underappreciated posts from 2008. Things that they wrote that didn't get the exposure or recognition that they deserved. I am using this post to give [...]

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Gentle transitions: Transitioning your baby to a nanny or babysitter

December 21, 2008




A reader wrote to me for some help transitioning her very attached baby to a new caregiver. Here is what she said (bold is mine to emphasize some of the things I'll touch on in my answer): Our baby has always been afraid of strangers -we attributed this to him getting sick & hospitalized very [...]

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Patient parenting

December 14, 2008




Patience, patience, patience. I received a question from Lizzardbits, who has been very patient waiting for my answer while I was off enjoying myself on vacation with my family. Here is her question: I'd like to be a more patient parent—to slooooooow doooowwwwnnn any tips? It turns out she isn't the only one that wants [...]

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Something to dream of?

November 30, 2008




How does 12 weeks of maternity leave at full pay and up to a year at 60 percent pay sound? How about 98 percent of newborns being exclusively breastfed when they leave the hospital and 72 percent exclusively breastfed at 4 months of age? Consider an infant mortality rate of 5 per 1000 live births. [...]

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Feminist Mothering (a book!)

November 9, 2008




Thanks to Blue Milk for alerting me to this great new book that has just been released. This is a topic of great interest to me, as I'm sure you've all seen in my posts on feminism and this book pulls together the experiences of different women in a series of essays on feminist mothering. [...]

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A letter to my darling boy

August 31, 2008




  To my darling boy, You're turning 4 this week. I know I'm supposed to say something like, "where has the time gone?" or "it seems like just yesterday we were bringing you home from the hospital". But that isn't how I feel. In fact, I feel like you've been a part of my life [...]

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Choice

August 30, 2008




I want choice. I want the right to choose whether to get married or not. If I choose to marry, I want the right to go back on that choice. If I choose not to marry, I don't want to be considered a lesser person, given less advantageous tax status, or be considered to be [...]

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Feminist motherhood

August 9, 2008




I just came across a blog on feminist motherhood, that I plan to explore more. However, before I let her ideas and thoughts (which I am very interested to read) impact my thoughts on feminism and motherhood, I thought I would answer her ten questions that define what a feminist mother looks like. 1. How [...]

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