I Love My Baby More Than You Love Your Baby:
How the On-Line Motherhood Support Community is Committing Mass Suicide We love nothing more than to say we have this wonderful, global community of women designed to support each other in a way that...
View ArticleSurrender
By Melody Fetterman A great deal of my pregnancy was spent anticipating birth. I was afraid of it for a long time, for most of the time. Luckily, my fears dissolved as I neared the end of my pregnancy...
View ArticleSibling Relationships and Avoiding Rivalry
I am not any kind of parenting expert, but we have now welcomed number 2 into our home. It has been 10 months and there is one measly little thing that I can say that I feel like I am doing well. It...
View ArticleThe Exclamation Point
Jack is 3.5 years old, but it feels like he has been the closest person to me forever. He changed me in ways that no one has. He changed my purpose in life from little things to the biggest things. I...
View ArticleTwo Different Moms
I feel like 2 different mothers sometimes. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but not the flying into a rage part. Well, ok, sometimes the rage part. OK, OK, often the rage part! Get off my back! But what I want...
View ArticleThe X-Files: A Story of a Second Child
Recently I was carrying Exley on my hip and rushing around after Jack. Suddenly I started spinning and darting my eyes around the floor. “WHERE’S EXLEY??!!” I yelled. It took my mom to burst out...
View ArticleCrappy Days: Attachment Parenting With a Temper
I woke up tired today. I guess I didn’t sleep much, but what’s new? I have a 1-year-old who nurses through the night, a 4-year-old who still nurses several times a day, and let’s face it, after 4 years...
View Article5 WAYS PARTNERS CAN SUPPORT BREASTFEEDING MOMS (A DAD’S PERSPECTIVE)
by Danny Pitt Stoller When I read articles and stories about breastfeeding, I frequently come across the comment that breastfeeding leads to a diminished role for the dad. After all, if only Mom can...
View ArticleWhat Does a Playground and the Moon Have in Common?
On July 20, 1969, four days after blasting off from the only planet known to have life, Neil Armstrong flew a Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) to the surface of the moon. Buzz Aldrin sat next to him...
View ArticleA Book Review of Benchwarmer: A Sports-Obsessed Memoir of Fatherhood
By Andy Malinski My dad owns a baseball signed by a man named Carlton Fisk—once a catcher for the Boston Red Sox. But it’s not his affiliation with the Red Sox which caused my dad to make this...
View ArticleA New Kind of Birth Control
The wait is over. Have you been searching for the perfect birth control method? Are you tired of swallowing pills and inserting medical devices into your body? Do you need a 100% effective way of...
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