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The Great Baby Bottom Raffle - Sunday, July 12th 2009 1:00 PM
The Great Baby Bottom Raffle is a chance for my family and friends to place their bets on various aspects of the birth of Baby Boy Businelle, due at the end of September....
6 ways to survive morning sickness plus Chanda's natural homemade ginger ale recipe - Thursday, September 18th 2008 3:42 PM
Morning sickness (which afflicts most pregnant women throughout the day during their first trimester) was a really great idea before refrigeration, canning, white flour, and...
10 tips for flattering pregnancy self-portraits (and a bonus secret tip!) - Saturday, August 30th 2008 12:05 PM
I could tell, after developing the first pregnancy progression photos my husband took for me, that I would have to take matters into my own hands. He's not a bad photographer,...
How to survive the last days of pregnancy - Tuesday, August 26th 2008 4:55 PM
Telling a pregnant woman in the "home stretch" that birth will happen any day now is like saying "Any day now I'm going to give you a wonderful gift and take that fifty pound...
How to Compliment an Ugly Baby - Saturday, June 21st 2008 12:06 PM
I love babies, especially my babies, but I don't think love has to be blind. Sometimes babies are just, well...ugly. When mine were newborns, I loved their wrinkly mashed up...
Getting the Wrong Idea (Birth As Told by Medical Professionals) - Friday, January 25th 2008 8:49 PM
I am continually amazed by the things my friends tell me they hear from their obstetricians and even midwives, ideas that straightforward statistics and basic anatomy have...
Getting the Wrong Idea (Birth As Told by Friends and Idiots) - Friday, January 11th 2008 6:27 AM
My last blog entry talked about the misconceptions many women get from the media about labor and birth. We hear even crazier ideas, believe it or not, from experienced...
Getting the Wrong Idea (Birth on Television and in Movies) - Friday, December 28th 2007 8:06 PM
Very few women in our culture have seen a birth before getting pregnant themselves. Many of our expectations and ideas surrounding labor and delivery come from the same place we...