Image: On our deck, being held by my Mum. Milestone 1 – cut a tooth. You’re not even four months old and you already don’t look like a newborn, how is having a tooth going to help? Image: Visiting friends, chatting to hands. Milestone 2 – with a full tummy you were patted off to [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Three milestones, one weekend
Posted in babies, co-sleeping, cormac, motherhood, motherhood bliss on August 8, 2009 | 10 Comments »
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The doll that breastfeeds is apparently more disturbing than the toy gun
Posted in babies, breastfeeding, feminism, feminist motherhood, pregnancy and birth, preschoolers on August 6, 2009 | 13 Comments »
A new doll designed to allow children to play at breastfeeding, as opposed to bottle-feeding is novel. Some of the responses to this doll are novel too. Managing health editor of FOXNews.com Dr Manny Alvarez said although he supported the idea of breast-feeding, he watched how his own daughter played with dolls and wondered if Bebe [...]
After princesses?
Posted in feminism, feminist motherhood, lauca, motherhood, pop culture, preschoolers on August 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »
When little girls finally out-grow princesses where do they go next with their fantasy life role playing? Although I know little about the character, here was a stage I could get with. I trolled eBay for Supergirl lunch boxes, Spider-Woman action figures, even a Wonder Woman Barbie. Yes, superheroines have the proportions of Lady Gaga [...]
He wants you to know
Posted in babies, cormac, feminism, motherhood bliss on August 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
.. that the Fifteenth Down Under Feminists Carnival is up, over at Hoyden About Town. Lauredhel, as you may expect, has done a fantastic job with it (I particularly like her lay-out).
The problem with equal parenting
Posted in babies, bill, cormac, daycare, fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, lauca, maternity leave, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, preschoolers, toddlers, work and family (im)balance, your guide to perfect play dates on August 3, 2009 | 42 Comments »
Next year when Cormac is one we are seriously contemplating a switch in roles where I will go back to work full-time and become the family’s bread-winner for a time while my partner takes a year’s paternity leave to be with our children. I won’t lie, I have very mixed feelings about it. The problem [...]
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