Being Pregnant
My company, my policies.
As you may or may not have heard, the sweater-vested candidate for President of the United States, Rick Santorum, is even against abortion in cases of rape.
Earlier this week he urged rape victims to “make the best out of a bad situation”. As the Huffington Post reports, “a recent analysis of his time as a U.S. senator showed an almost obsessive tendency to talk about abortion-related subjects on the Senate floor.”
Santorum also blasted Obama’s support of women’s reproductive rights as “radical and extreme”. Riiight. Radical and extreme, you know, because President Obama supports the fact that abortion has been legal for 39 years now.
Anyway, one television actress has a novel approach to Santorum’s abortion stance. As Jezebel.com reports, Susie Essman says she might just have to register her womb as a company. It’s not a bad idea as the only thing those nutty right-wing jobs like Santorum can understand is the rights of is money-making corporations. Continue reading »
According to the CDC, the number of home births in the US went up 29% between 2004 and 2009. The number is still low– it went form 0.56% of all births to 0.72 %, but that’s still almost 30,000 births.
“The increase has been driven by non-Hispanic white women,” said the author of the report Marian MacDorman. “For non-Hispanic white women, home births increased 36 %.”
Why is this happening? Continue reading »
My – what a difference 10 weeks makes!
Baby and I are finally in the 20s! Here’s what’s going on this week: “Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He’s also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel. If you’re having a girl, her uterus is now fully formed and her ovaries are holding about seven million primitive eggs. If you’re having a boy, his testicles have begun their descent from the abdomen to their ultimate destination — the scrotum. His brain continues to form and grow. His teeth are beginning to appear, and he can swallow.” (Source, source, source)
Somewhere in there is 10.5 inches of baby. Crazy. Continue reading »
It has been a few months since my last miscarriage and while I am still grieving — the process is moving along pretty smoothly. I have been through this before, but that doesn’t make this any easier. There are days that are easier then others and some days it all seems to crash at me like it just happened. All normal in the process of perinatal grief — it is an ever moving journey.
For me, I wasn’t trying to get pregnant at the time. I am so ready for another baby, but at that time we were not trying (still not, boo) so my grief is not compounded (or triggered) when a pregnancy announcement is made. That is a very real reality for a lot of women though — the announcements can be a painful reminder of what you’ve lost and cause conflicting emotions we sometimes just don’t understand.
Today we had an ultrasound and to my surprise, the black and white image turned into a 3D look at our baby. To tell you the truth, it was hard to make out much while looking at the screen but then the tech printed a few stills and I was stunned at how detailed the images were. At first it took me back a little bit. I couldn’t believe I was seeing what our baby looked like without him even leaving the womb. Ever since I knew I was pregnant (heck, ever since I met my husband) I’ve wondered what our kids would look like and the answer was sitting right in front of me. I was studying every detail.
The first thing I definitely noticed was his nose which is prominent just like his mom and dad. Then I noticed how much he already looks like my husband, very much a boy. If we hadn’t found at the sex I for sure would have known after seeing his picture today. Continue reading »
True liberation or misogynist fantasy?
An ethicist in the UK reckons women will never truly be equal with men until babies can be gestated in artificial wombs.
Dr. Anna Smajdor, writing in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, tells us that pregnancy causes a “natural inequality” between the sexes. Men get the perks of reproduction but women bear all the “burdens and risks.”
“Pregnancy is a condition that causes pain and suffering, and that affects only women,” she writes. Smajdor is Lecturer in Ethics at the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice in the University of East Anglia. Continue reading »
My pregnancy had a rocky start (3 Things I Wish I Had Known at 5 Weeks) and after weeks of feeling perpetually stressed out by every twinge and cramp, I decided to take a much more relaxed view of pregnancy.
Especially after reading The Panic-Free Pregnancy, I chose to only worry about things my doctor or midwife brought to my attention. But there’s one thing that I can’t stop panicking about… Sleep positions.
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