May 2nd, 2008
Declared and founded by holistic lifestyle expert Anna Getty, May 2008 marks the inaugural year of Pregnancy Awareness Month (PAM). And if I weren’t green with envy, I am now when I take a peek at all of the sponsors who helped kick off their inaugural event last night. Where can I get some […]
By Gabrielle -- 3 comments
May 1st, 2008
If you already read Kids Health Notes, you know Grace is a smart cookie. Well, she came up with another great idea and asked the Health and Wellness bloggers to round up their favorite posts from the month of April. Here are mine!
Oh Wait, Are We Sure We Want to Do This? - Second thoughts […]
By Gabrielle -- 1 comment
April 20th, 2008
Do I admit that this movie looks, frankly, pretty damn funny? Offensive? I am sure. Inaccurate? Not sure. (I’m guessing yes.) While I am not the biggest fan of Amy Poehler, I hold a soft spot in my heart to Tina Fey, if only because I feel as if we always seemed to be living […]
By Gabrielle -- 6 comments
April 14th, 2008
Fertile Dream’s 4th Annual Paths to Parenthood Conference will be taking place at the Orlando Marriott on Sunday, May 4th.
Why am I telling you this? Besides the fact that there seems to be a great lineup of speakers, it is FREE!
Yes, completely free. The conference runs from 8 am to 4:30 pm and your free […]
By Gabrielle -- 2 comments
April 14th, 2008
This month’s selection of the Barren B*tches Book Brigade is AM Home’s memoir, The Mistress’s Daughter. And it is a prime example of how the number of pages or words doesn’t necessarily correlate with the length of time a book can linger in one’s mind. I probably finished The Mistress’ Daughter the day after I […]
By Gabrielle -- 11 comments
April 13th, 2008
Sometimes there are events or scenarios that give me pause, make me rethink this whole “having a baby” thing.
This weekend was host to one of those scenarios.
Not the main event - that was a baptism of one of our family members. That portion of the weekend was very nice and family-affirming, even with a mandatory […]
By Gabrielle -- 5 comments
April 13th, 2008
I have to admit, I have been sweating about this article in the most recent New Atlantis ever since I was interviewed for it several months ago. It felt like I rambled. Did I ramble? Some questions felt loaded. Am I being baited? Did I take the bait? What’s the bait? What’s the desired […]
By Gabrielle -- 1 comment
April 8th, 2008
A recent study done by Jennifer Bailey and Karl Hill from the University of Washington’s Social Development Research Group found that,
Despite public health campaigns, a surprising number of women continue to use substances such as tobacco, marijuana and alcohol during pregnancy and their usage rebounds to pre-pregnancy levels within two years of having a […]
By Gabrielle -- 4 comments
April 6th, 2008
I didn’t get to see Thomas Beatie on Oprah last week (even though reader Melis gave me a heads up as soon as she saw my post.) But the “world’s first pregnant man”’s appearance on daytime TV has come up in conversations with multiple friends this week. Luckily, I knew the plot, but I thought […]
By Gabrielle -- 4 comments
April 4th, 2008
The other days I found a website which chronicled one woman’s home birth of her fifth child. She was surrounded by her midwife, husband and little kiddies and between you and me, my initial eye rolling and skepticism turned to tears by the end of this touching photo sequence. So I stumbled it as a […]
By Gabrielle -- 3 comments
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