Writing (mostly) about kids and parenting, while parenting my kids.
http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008...
A Canadian grandmother's essay about essentially crashing her daughter-in-law's birth — including arriving after a C-section and getting to hold the baby while her daughter-in-law was still in recovery — has prompted lots of angry comments on the newspaper site where it appeared last week. What do you think? Was it wrong for two bubbies-to-be to bum rush the hospital, in search of information, affirmation, and a grandbaby?
http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008...
Some women are having surgery to refashion their labia, remove their clitoral hood, or “revirginize” themselves. Why would anyone go to such an extreme, and what does it say about women?
http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/11/...
A new law in the Philippines would put government support behind access to birth control, and the Catholic church wants to stop it. Thank goodness we avoided that problem here…