I was right: my ex-OB was lying to me.
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I've been thinking about this post for some time now - but it's the kind of thing that some who I know read this blog ...
So, umm, let's work on finding all this funny... this morning produced the following series of adventures for our toddler: first, she got hold of and ...
Z is now a walker. She taught herself to walk carefully, meticulously, and with lots of caution designed to avoid encounters with anything that might ...
My brother is visiting and yesterday I was walking around town with him when a woman I used to work with at the university walked ...
I can't take a feminist seriously if she takes a condescending tone towards traditionally female activities like crafting in order to make some otherwise valid ...
Turns out my local mom-friends and I are in a fairly small minority. One could say fringe minority. Let me explain. Obsessions die hard and I've been ...
I tend to have a lot of ideas for blog posts while showering, playing with Z, walking the dog, grocery shopping, and so on. Somehow ...
I know that's not a word. Or anything close to it. I just keep thinking of that school strip search story, and just what component ...
1. I realize they mean well. And yet it's safe to say that few people have done more damage to my mental health than pediatricians since ...
It's that time of the year: when holidays turn most religious - Easter and Passover, coming together as they do. My own point of view is ...
For the most part, I am fine with how my life is at the moment. So much so that I feel guilty at times... for ...
I have a confession to make: at the moment I don't entirely love my body. I look fine - when I'm fully dressed. I'm not fat. ...
Current firsts: In addition to the word 'lamp,' Z recognizes the dog's name. She now likes putting things into and taking them out of containers. Endlessly. Until ...
Baby Z understands the word 'lamp'. In Hungarian, for starters. (What that means? That I've been pointing out lamps to her very diligently of late. ...
It works fine for us: being silly. One could say we are good at it. To wit: (Z did not suddenly grow all that hair: it's ...
This blog is kind of repetitive these days. But it's my blog and anyway, that is how life is at the moment. I want some ...
Nevertheless, its what finally got Z to try fingerfoods: I baked some sugary pecan-fig-orange cookies that she was rather taken with. Yes, I know how ...
Our pediatrician's appointment today could, all things considered, have gone better. We did indeed fail the nutrition portion of today's exam, although developmentally all's well ...
My life is strewn with first things lately. Z sat directly in the cart yesterday at Target. She loved it. She twisted herself every which way ...
Someone asked me once if, now that I have a baby, I'll trade in my car for a 4-door model. You see, I have a ...
Our plans for the future are slowly emerging after Baby Z's birth, temporarily renting in New Jersey, me quitting working, and A starting several very ...
I've written about feeling under siege as a mother, and reading Jill Walker's post about the lack of choices regarding career vs. motherhood in the ...
A little while back there was a momversation I meant to respond to about whether marriage or motherhood is harder (see also dooce's post, and ...
Apparently, not only is high fructose corn syrup generally evil, it also contains mercury (originally seen at Mom-101). Not that my brain is affected by ...
