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Ani DiFranco on Homebirth

by Mama TurtleFrom a call-in show: "I would definitely choose a homebirth again despite the fear mongering of this patriarchal society, which convinces women that they are incapable of having babies without the interven…
Post Partum Depression

by Mama TurtleI don't know what else to title this than what I simply know it as. I don't know what I could possibly add afterwards other than I have dealt with this after each and every single birth. As my youngest grew…
Pregnancy Brain

by Mama TurtleThe little baby I'm growing is literally sucking the patience from me, not that I had a lot to spare to begin with. I can usually cope ok but for now, any extra whining or tantruming or having to repeat mys…
Wow, This Is a Doozy of an Article

by Mama Turtle I've seen some blatant hogwash, emotion-jerking propaganda in my time, but this Time article on vaccinations takes the cake - iced with omissions of elementary facts and outright mistakes (Hib is not a v…
The Only Thing Fluffier Than My Stomach So Far...

by Mama Turtle...is the diaper pile I have amassed for the newborn to be. Hmmmm I really have to come up with a snazzy nickname for the newbie. I mean, Newbie is so overused, and I hate not being original (in my little b…
Digging Back into Circumcision

by Mama TurtleRecently, I found myself jumping back into the topic of circumcision vs. intact boys as the debate still stands in the United States. (A debate, I sense, that has been reaching the conclusion of best not to…
UC'ing just for the Experience

by Mama TurtleI'm so very sick and tired of that assumption. But, I'm thinking about why I am UC(Unassisted Childbirth)'ing again. I can't say it's for the experience, because I've already had "the experience," har har…
One Thing No Parent Wants to Hear...

by Mama Turtle...is their child coming home from school to tell them that again, they're being bullied, and no amount of reassurance and advice is helping their child in the least.It's a few different knives in my heart:…
Eh?

by Mama TurtleSo for some reason my lilypie.com pregnancy ticker wasn't working in the two places I had it. After two weeks of trying to figure out why, I gave up and went to baby-gaga.com, and got this. Cute enough ri…
Of Lice and Men

by Mama TurtleBack in the beginning of February, Turtle4 caught head lice again. I did vinegar and some diluted TTO (tea tree oil) and a lot of picking and combing. I did piles of laundry too, and every day went through …