Today is Canadian Thanksgiving. I will be having sweet potato casserole and stuffing and mashed potatoes with gravy and lots and lots of pie and, also, Ativan, and then will sleep the sleep of...
That, too, did pass.The children fell asleep, eventually, and I regained my calm, and even though the night was not a peaceful one, it was fine, I managed, it was only, after all, some...
Ordinarily, I faint at the sight of blood. Or I freak out. Or both. You would think that I would be all the more the likely to do both when the blood that I'm...
Dear PETA,We here at the Society for the Control, Containment and Commodification of Women (CCCOW) were delighted to see your most recent press release proposing the replacement of cow's milk with human breast milk...
The best part, the most beautiful part, of the earliest days and weeks with baby is this: the hands. The tiniest hands, the little seashell fingers, curled into fists, shoved into wet pink mouths....
I've lost count of how many times in the last two and three-quarter years I've heard these words: they grow up so fast. I've heard it a lot. As of today, I've heard it...
Zachary has been released from the hospital. He's still very seriously limited in his mobility - he still needs to learn to walk again, to teach himself some things that his nervous system used...
Yes, I am still going on about my boobies. Such are the risks of reading a blog written by a lactating mother: I can and will subject you to my reflections on the trials...
Even though there has been, from the evidence in my in-box, a planeload of e-mails sent to WestJet asking for explanation of their policies on in-flight nursing, I haven't received a response. There's been...
