Mama is…

This just in: Don’t go back to work for two years – if you want a happy baby. It’s obvious that someone else wrote the title, because Dr. Yehudi Gordon’s point was more, “Don’t seperate from your baby too soon, if you want a happy person.” Maybe when my last child is 20 and I’m ready [...]

Apparently there’s a battle raging, the “good mother” is being vanquished by the “bad mother”, at least in the media. So that the ” good mother” represented by the attachment mom, the helicopter mom, the hovering mom, (check out what all of those have in common?) are becoming bad whereas the “bad mother” the detached, my-kids-are-brats- [...]

I set this comic to load when I thought I had a letter from a physician who I actually DID meet when I was pregnant. BUT, he declined to write me the letter because he doesn’t actually remember meeting me, much less that I was pregnant. DAMN, I thought I had more charisma than that. So [...]

Oy, the paperwork! Who would have thought it would be so hard to get a proof of pregnancy? I should have taken a photo of me pregnant holding up a newspaper like in a hostage photo ;o) I’ll be tooning about the whole debacle soon. Any (licensed) medicals wanna vouch for the goddess of moo? hee [...]

Blast that evil carseat. One thing I know is that if mothers had designed it, the backward- facing backseat would not have been the way we would go. I’m sure we could have come up with something better. Or maybe it’s cars that are the problem. Or Maybe we need a redesign of the whole world. [...]

Hi dearest mothers,
today I need to speak of business for a second…please bear with me ;o) As you know, for many years I have been producing free comics and sending them out into the world. I pretend like it’s a public service, but I would likely make them [...]

Dearest mamas,
I was sent a link recently about the homebirth/freebirth advocate, Janet Fraser, (that many of you may have engaged with on-line, or at least know of her site joyous birth) who lost her baby during a recent birth. The birth was just a few days before mine, and so the story has touched [...]