Are Your Children An Extension of You?

I was watching “Back to Woodstock” on Dateline NBC Sunday night. I’ve seen lots of footage of the music, the people, the enormous piles of trash. This time I was struck by a line from Lisa Law, a photographer and filmmaker who documented much of the 3 days. (She also ran a “trip tent” and cooked food for the thousands of people who showed up.)

Law is also a mom: she was pregnant during the Summer of ‘69, and already had a toddler in tow. Talking about going to “music and arts festival” in the Dateline piece, Law says, “Having a baby and being pregnant does not slow me down. My children are an extension of me, and so I have no problem doing things with them attached to me.” Continue reading »

Woodstock Baby, are You Out There?

You know I love a nice, juicy, out-of-hospital birth. But I’m not sure where I stand on live, in-concert labor and deliveries. Not that giving birth among a half a million people at a large, outdoor, three-day-long hippie concert is all that common.

In fact, births at Woodstock — long one of the many free-love stories told of the event — may never have happened.

The supposed Woodstock baby (or babies — estimates range from zero to four births at the famed 1969 concert on a farm in Sullivan County, New York) turns 40 in August and people are starting to ask again. No one has ever credibly stepped forward and said, “I’m a Woodstock Baby.”

But there is some evidence there were births. From the AP: Continue reading »

Book Shows How Babies Are REALLY Made

Ah, the 70’s.

Ah, Denmark.

What?

Jezebel has the pages of a very graphic book by Danish author Per Holm Knudsen called “How a Baby Is Made”. And boy, do they show you how. Continue reading »