Posted in Life as a MereMortal Mama, Mortal [Wannabe] Wisdom on January 31, 2008 | 19 Comments »
A frothy swig from the bottle of a room-temp IBC root beer and a 30-second devour of a day old sweet-cream pastry from a local bakery. “Sweethearts Gourmet Donuts. Donuts You’ll Fall in Love With”. (which share a pantry with “Kettle Chips. A Chip You Can Respect in the Morning.” )
As [...]
Posted in Birth: Lessons and Healing on January 23, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Birth changed you. It transformed you. It turned you upside down and inside out and sent you spiraling into foreign territory; certainly a land of many sorrows, a place of shadowy fear, a continent of grief and unspeakable longing for that which has been lost or misplaced.
You are not the woman, nor the [...]
Posted in Activism, Birth Stories, tagged Birth Stories, doula, teen birth on January 17, 2008 | 15 Comments »
“Can I just let my body bring my baby down without pushing?”
Her weary eyes turn to me in this soft plea, as if she is a peddler begging for a bit of nourishment. Strands of her straw-colored hair flow up and away from her face like a wave, framing her flushed face. [...]
Posted in Life as a MereMortal Mama, Mortal [Wannabe] Wisdom on January 10, 2008 | 11 Comments »
The end of an era.
Kaia is on day five of her seemingly uneventful binky weaning saga. Five days of no binkys! It has been a bit like a movie whose storyline gets you all worked up and then it just peters out in the end. No real action, no surprises, no [...]
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