A year ago I was 13.5 weeks postpartum and I wrote about working on my relationship skills in this blog. I had a lot of difficulty adapting to having two children and the extra work.
I also felt abandoned by my spouse whose work hours increased with the arrival of our second child. Looking back, I was […]
By the authority invested in me by…ummm…no one, I hereby declare today, March 22, to be official Stress-Related Break from Blogging Day. To celebrate this event, feel free to post the official logo for the event, a thirteen-eyed monster shouting “AHHHHHHHH!”, in your own blog.
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On overview of 15 studies released by the McMaster University School of Midwifery researchers and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has reignited an old childbirth argument.
The overview holds that after the baby is delivered, birth attendants should wait until after the umbilical cord stops pulsing before clamping and cutting it. This enables more iron-rich, nutrient-filled blood to […]
There is an interesting article on the Unison.ie site (free registration required) about what is called “Sensual Birth.”
The philosphy is that giving birth is actually the height of femininity and can be a sensual event, especially when couples use clitoral and nipple stimulation to encourage labour to progress. In fact, some women get so turned […]
Almost the moment the kids and I arrived, I joined the local YMCA for the month of our visit. I get to exercise while my 4 year-old attends a program for his age group and the baby goes to the play centre where she is taken care of in a safe environment by trained staff […]
I feel a speed link coming on: The 46th Carnival of Family life is up at Digital Rich Daily.
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Children were so fragile. She realised that now. When you thought of all that could happen, the electrical sockets and the Venetian-blind cords and the salmonella chicken and the toxic furniture polish and the windpipe-sized morsels of food and uncapped medicine bottles and the lethal two inches of bathtub water, it seemed miraculous that any […]
Sunday, March 18th is Mothering Sunday in the UK. Mothers’ Day in the US and Canada is on Sunday, May 13th. I have long supported the idea that mothers deserve to observe both days regardless of where they may live.
I also know in my heart of hearts that mothering for many women is not about getting breakfast […]
Francis Kane, my great-grandfather, sailed from Ireland on a cattle boat. He was 14 years-old and, probably, running away. He and his siblings had been “farmed out” or sent to work for farmers in exchange for their room and board, a state that generally meant a bed in the straw and rations that just fended […]
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