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January 2008 Archive
January 31st, 2008
Birth order (of a different sort)
I recently heard a story on NPR about how here, in the state I live in, midwives cannot legally deliver a baby without the presence of a licensed doctor. And, of course, doctors never do attend homebirths because of how afraid they are of malpractice lawsuits.
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January 30th, 2008
Lessons to live by
Last Wednesday my husband and I took our daughter to her four-year old check-up. I drove from campus and waited in the parking lot, engine idling, while I listened to some CDs and read through a batch of student memoirs. I marveled at where some of these students of mine have come from; some flirting briefly with life on the Other Side: the dark side of a life on the streets and drugs and jail time. [more]
January 29th, 2008
Double the love
Juggling the varied needs of two sick kids recently has made me think a lot about one of the primary challenges of parenting more than one child: how on earth to divide yourself in two over the course of an eight-hour day (or sometimes a six or seven hour night, if you're lucky). [more]
