Mama is…

I live in California, a place where everyone you meet has either embraced attachment parenting (more or less) or has a full staff, at least one nanny but usually more. We are a land of extremes. BUT I find that my immediate crowd is generally on the same page, they agree with memore or less, so [...]

Followed by bouts of super-energetic-ness. But sleep is what I really want right now. I keep coming up with fabulous comic ideas and then after a good 12 hours of sleep, what was it? hmmm…can’t remember! so I go off and do something else for a while and then after a nap, I might come up [...]

Why I wear this old nursing bra….

In my long and illustrious breastfeeding career I have experienced:
Cracked nipples,
Itching nipples,
Inverted nipples and
Mastitis not once but 5 times!
Once on my birthday.
Also itchy breasts.
As well as and probably pertaining to…
Poor positioning,
Poor latch,
High palates,
Colic
And these must be related to the
Excessive milk production
Which resulted in
A wee bit of post-partem depression and
Exuberant [...]

I read this article the other day (thanks Lori!) A Mother’s Final Look at Life
In Impoverished Sierra Leone, Childbirth Carries Deadly Odds by Kevin Sullivan and phew, there’s a lot to say.

How can we have gotten to this place, where a woman who has the inherent biological ability to birth children, [...]