July 4th, 2008
Many women (and men) in the midst of trying to conceive and having some trouble will start to avoid social situations where they know they will encounter pregnant women or babies. While these sights don’t usually bother me, I can understand how seeing others who have something you want so badly but don’t have (yet) […]
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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 […]
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April 6th, 2008
You may recall one of my new year’s resolutions was to get myself greener. Not greener with envy when I see baby bumps or get birth announcements from more and more friends. For the most part, I handle those pretty well. What I felt I needed to handle better was the volume of our trash, […]
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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 […]
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