Motherhood – Page 7 – Her Bad Mother

31 Oct

Halloween Gone Bad (Director’s Cut)

(Updated Sunday, November 2)What happens when you combine witch with fairy with barmaid with pimp:Behold, Evil TinkerWench.Which, you know, is sweet and everything, but if one is really going to make the most of...

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29 Oct

Mom At Work

by Catherine

Motherhood, PPD

You're never more aware of how much drudgery is involved in the work of mothering than when you're doing that work while suffering from a bad cold or flu or some such viral misery...

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2 Oct

Visualize Whirled Peas

by Catherine

Anxiety, Motherhood, PPD

Her name was Svetlana. She spoke with a thick Slavic accent and wore a pantsuit, which for some reason made me think that she looked like a banker. A Russian banker. Which didn't predispose...

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29 Sep

Deep Into The Darkness

by Catherine

Motherhood, PPD

I've stopped keeping track of the time at night, even though a clock sits, ticking relentlessly, not three feet from the bed. In the day, I mark the time obsessively - this many minutes...

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28 Sep

Dear WestJet: Customer Service, UR DOIN IT RONG

by Catherine

Breastfeeding, Rants

WestJet - as you know if you saw the addendum to my last post - finally had something to say about the flurry of letters (including one from me) and posts concerning their policies...

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23 Sep

Endymion’s Sleep

by Catherine

Anxiety, Motherhood

I have lost count of the numbers of days and nights it's been since I last had more than one hour of sleep at a stretch. Day and night have lost the crisp edges...

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9 Sep

Under The Blanket

by Catherine

Breastfeeding, Fearless, Rants

It was the kind of thing that would have outraged me, had it happened any other day, any other week. It was the kind of thing that would have had me out of my...

212 Comments

8 Aug

You Got A Problem With My Boobies, PUNK?

by Catherine

Breastfeeding, PPD, Rants

Yesterday, I took my brood to the library. It's a lovely library, with soaring ceilings and vast windows and big, plush leather chairs and - of course - miles and miles of books. We...

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29 Jul

Mary Shelley Had NO IDEA

by Catherine

Motherhood, PPD

Oh, hey! Guess what this is: Nope. Not a bunny, not a reindeer, not 'Glory Hole with Chewing Gum (Triple J Truck Stop- Yuma, AZ, 2003),' not 'The Wind In My Vagina,' not a minimalist...

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27 Jun

The Sound Of Crazy

by Catherine

Anxiety, Baby, Motherhood, PPD

I read somewhere, some time ago, that the sound of an infant crying is one of the most stress-inducing sounds for the human ear to hear; it induces anxiety in the listener, and for...

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