Just Another Birthing Tale

| July 13, 2010

Writing about one’s birth story feels indulgent; the details are usually of interest only to the participants.  I don’t think the telling of mine can be avoided, though, if I intend to blog about parenting, so bear with me. Most pregnant women in their late 30′s are already a little bit too, too mama.  We [...]

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A Woman of Advanced Maternal Age

| July 13, 2010

Despite being 35 when I remarried — and knowing what that meant in terms of natural pregnancy odds — the storyteller that lives in my head was convinced we’d have a honeymoon baby, conceived while listening to the serene waves from the beaches of Phuket. Two days of food poisoning didn’t exactly help the cause, [...]

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To Breed or Not To Breed — That Was the Question

| July 13, 2010

I think early in my life I took it as a given that I would one day be a mother.  Life changes us.   I married my college sweetheart.  It was a bad decision from day one (which is NOT to say that he was a bad guy, necessarily).   Because we know now that [...]

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