I will eventually post some content of my own, but in the meantime, more of my recommendations

Now this is how you start to unpack a report on infant mortality.

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Public health message of the day: don’t trust women, especially when they’re incubating

More of my value-not-particular-adding posts.
I point you to Lauredhel’s must-read piece here at Hoyden About Town on the way studies on women drinking alcohol during pregnancy are reported in the media. This kind of dumbed down public health policy approach, with all its moralising and infantilising of women really irritates the shit out of me… [...]

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Have you read Tsiolkas’ “The Slap”?

Reading The Slap I wished I still belonged to a book club. Christos Tsiolkas’ thought-provoking book is just made for group discussion. Every character it seems is morally compromised, and the novel is structured such that the plot unfolds via the point of view of a different character in each chapter. There is easily an [...]

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“the dangerous conflation of rape and sex and children and affairs”

This calling it ’sex’ when it is ‘rape’ just has to stop. From I Blame the Patriarchy we have another doozy:
It wasn’t a rape, it was a ‘rape’. No wait, it was an “encounter,” editorially downgraded to “having sex,” because one mustn’t discount the likelihood that the kid made up the rape part just before [...]

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More of what feminist mothers look like

Three new (and very considered) responses to my 10 questions about your feminist mothering. It struck me while reading these very different responses that what they had in common as feminist mothers was a level of consciousness about their parenting. Feminist mothers think a lot about what they’re doing, I’ve concluded. All three of these [...]

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Questions on children, safety and freedom: freaking me the hell out

Years ago I had a very close friend who used to entertain me with stories of his neurotically over-protective mother. His childhood had been supervised and controlled by his mother to a comical extent. The beauty of the stories, which was not lost on either of us, was that he told them through a thick [...]

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To Him

Well, long term monogamy is a very long time and add parenthood into that mix and it is especially long. But I’m still so in love with you.
Happy Valentines Day.

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Before this pregnancy, there was another

I should tell you about the miscarriage I had because it is relevant to this pregnancy. But I still can’t write about it properly. So I’ll just say this. It happened right before this pregnancy, it happened right at the end of the first trimester and it took two weeks to complete. Two weeks of hanging [...]

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On housework

In these, my final stages of pregnancy, I prefer to do housework by kicking. Can’t bend down? Just kick the dirty washing from the bathrooms to the laundry. Same applies to the endless stuff other members of the household leave behind on couches, bench tops, tables, and beds. Drop and kick.
By the way, the house [...]

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On sleeping

I don’t recommend motherhood for people with claustrophobia. Or maybe it is co-sleeping I don’t recommend. Either way, I spend my nights in bed at the moment with a three year old wriggling and snuggling into my back and a baby in utero wriggling and rolling and stretching in my front. I feel quite wedged.

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