Bread and Roses

This post is the one I don't want to spend the weekend writing.  I thought of funnier topics and cuter topics, but this is the post I ne...

Last week I read Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink.  Just reading this book was harrowing.  A...

Not in our news, which is all of the boring "thinking about trying" and "paying money to store sperm until whenever" var...

I wrote about some of the stuff LB is up to last week, but I forgot to mention the thing that has been the biggest positive for our quali...

This morning found me sweating and shaking on my front porch as I opened the envelope from MD Unemployment.  Thankfully the skinny envelope/...

May is National Preeclampsia Awareness Month, yay!  I've already done posts on my personal experience with preeclampsia, so this time, i...

Recently the Huffington Post published this essay titled "The Question You Should Never Ask a Lesbian Mom." Of course it was abou...

The good news is that LB knows a new word: puke.  The bad news-she learned this new word after puking copiously in her crib.  She then seeme...

November is.  Obviously I think prematurity awareness is an important public health/science/cultural issue, but it's also a strange one,...

Happy RSV Season (not)! It is the season of illness and ick, and if you have recently brought a preemie home, or you are expecting a preem...

Not that anything's really changed in the past week, but lots of news items have had me shaking my head.  Of course there was the "...

A few days ago we went back to the ENT, where we spent an hour waiting for a three minute exam.  Results: better, the infection in one ear ...

The Navel Gazing Midwife posted this article on her Facebook page about the horrors of scary birth stories.  The reasoning in the articles...

No stickers. Much screaming.  Exam results: fluid in one ear, low-grade infection in the other ear.  LB got some antibiotics.  Follow-up in ...

LB's sticker says "I got my eyes checked!" Not to worry, no motivation killing empty superlatives there. Mild astigmatis...

Ladybug had her speech evaluation.  At first the therapist said she was just below the 25% delay cutoff and would qualify for services, but ...

It's Preeclampsia Awareness Month! Yay!  Before I got preeclampsia, I had no idea that there was such a month, and therein lies a seriou...

The Family Equality Council has a new program to encourage same sex parents to take photos of forms that refer to mother and father and send...