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March 2007

baby!

March 30, 2007

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wanting a baby vs. wanting a birth

March 30, 2007

I noticed today while meditating/resting that I’m feeling very unattached to the prospect of giving birth again. I was lying in the position my first midwife reccomended for helping to turn a breech baby, not because I think my baby is breech but because it’s damn comfortable. But I explored for a moment the idea [...]

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the baby loves me

March 29, 2007

The scene: I’m lying in my side in bed, watching Rio practice marching like a dinosaur (who knew dinosaurs marched?). After a bit she comes over and lies down with me, with her arms around my belly and her face resting on it, looking into my eyes. She’s got one ear pressed to my abdomen, [...]

Tagged as: baby project, parenting, rio, rioisms

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Cost of medical care

March 20, 2007

It’s true that medical costs are often invisible to end users. One of the arguments I often hear in support of home birth is that it is so much cheaper than hospital birth. Birth centers are supposed to be a middle ground cost wise, more expensive than home birth but cheaper by far than hospitals, [...]

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architecture of the body

March 11, 2007

Me, whining: I am so pregnant and so huge. I am the size of a house. Me, accepting: I guess I am a house. Listener, laughing: Yes. You are a house.

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Rio reads the cards

March 5, 2007

Rio: I want my cards Mama. The ones in your basket. (she points to my basket of Tarot decks. I give her the “starter deck” that I let her play with sometimes.) Rio: What is this man doing? She’s holding out the Death card, showing a cartoonish image of a skeleton with a massive scythe [...]

Tagged as: parenting, rio, tarot

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I heart D&D

March 4, 2007

Mr. Kid just called from Colorado to let us know he was safe and happy in his new, temporary home at his grandfather’s house. Then he asked to be passed over to me, and talked to me for almost an hour about Dungeons and Dragons and the new campaign setting I opened up our adventure [...]

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