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June 29, 2007

1. I am apparently being scary enough that my roommate just a) fixed our laundry basket so beautifully that I could not tell what she’d done to it other than it was no longer broken and fraying and then b) showed me what she’d done and cautiously offered to undo the repair if I preferred [...]

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My body is a living temple of love

June 29, 2007

love expressed as rage toward the universe and anyone unfortunate enough to be talking to me. I want my baby. I would settle for being still pregnant and being even a little bit more OK with it. Like not being so helplessly angry with everything and everyone I come into contact with. It’s like the [...]

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Rio as baby catcher?

June 14, 2007

Rio has gotten very interested in the immanent arrival of the baby, and asks me to tell her stories every day about what will happen when the baby comes. Yesterday, she added a twist of her own. “When the baby comes out between your legs, I will hold its head,” she said, demonstrating how she [...]

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How does that baby get out?

June 5, 2007

During a childbirth class recently, M and I were encouraged to think about how to prep Rio for my labor. I honestly had not thought about communicating with her about the labor part at all; I’d been kind of hiding the more painful aspects of pregnancy and was hoping she would miss the bloody, messy, [...]

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Mom pics

June 2, 2007

These are the proofs from my Mother’s Day photo shoot. I need to choose which ones to order prints or negatives of. Suggestions?

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Strolling

June 1, 2007

My mother is set on taking me shopping for a second-hand double stroller as a baby gift. Assume I have already tried the tactic of, “Gee, Mom, that’s sweet but I don’t think I’ll use it. How about this awesome sling instead?”. She wants my input on what kind of stroller I want and I [...]

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Something I have always appreciated about my mother

May 14, 2007

She has got my back. Every time, without question, without fail. I spent the day with my mom and Rio yesterday. We went to Salem for lunch and had our portraits taken by a guy who specializes in pregnant belly shots. The portrait session was a mixed experience; Rio was not into it, the guy [...]

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Meeting Dr. Patriarchy

May 5, 2007

So I met with Dr. Saliman, the medical director of the Cambridge Birth Center, yesterday morning. I should say that so far in this process, while I’ve been unhappy about their policies regarding mental health and even more disturbed by their notification process for those policies, I’ve been pleased at how I’ve been treated by [...]

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CBC update

April 28, 2007

When I last spoke with the head midwife at the Cambridge Birth Center, I was told that I would have been informed of their policy regarding mental health history as a risk factor in writing in my orientation packet, which I would have been given at the orientation approximately one month before my due date. [...]

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Midwifery Care for Massachusetts Mamas

April 24, 2007

I have had an exciting week in the world of midwifery care. So far I have learned that: The Cambridge Birth Center requires any woman who has ever received any mental health care to visit at least once with a mental health professional during her pregnancy. She must get a letter from that professional stating [...]