Full scribble
I'm feeling reflective today. Maybe it's because this morning I had a moment of perfect happiness with Ben, watching his face uncrumple from sleep as he rubbed his eyes with his fists — such a thoroughly little-kid move that I haven't stopped smiling yet. Maybe it's because Charlie turns ten next week, his birthday coming hard on the heels of World Prematurity Day, when I spend the day thinking, I almost missed this. So many do. (No, I cannot explain this picture. Why are we not holding him?) Maybe it's because a friend pointed me to the latest papal finger-wagging about IVF, and I realized I just cou...
Source: a little pregnant - November 21, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Ben there, done that Charles in charge Source Type: blogs
Microhippie
I have five minutes before I leave for the dentist, where I will be scrupulously honest about exactly how often I floss, so this is going to be what the young 'uns call a microblog. I just wanted to record a few recent observations about life at Hippie Do As You Please School.
Charlie is learning to weld. A parent brings in, I don't know, a travel forge or something, sets it up in a convenient alcove, and...teaches kids to weld. On welding days Charlie comes home incandescent with happiness, full of stories of what thing he welded to what other thing. (The stories...are kind of short: Rod, rod. Bolt, plate. Piece ...
Source: a little pregnant - October 1, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge Source Type: blogs
Microhippie
I have five minutes before I leave for the dentist, where I will be scrupulously honest about exactly how often I floss, so this is going to be what the young'uns call a microblog. I just wanted to record a few recent observations about life atHippie Do As You Please School.Charlie is learning to weld. A parent brings in, I don't know, a travel forge or something, sets it up in a convenient alcove, and...teaches kids to weld. On welding days Charlie comes home incandescent with happiness, full of stories of what thing he welded to what other thing. (The stories...are kind of short: Rod, rod. Bolt, plate. Piece of m...
Source: a little pregnant - October 1, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge Source Type: blogs
Microhippie
I have five minutes before I leave for the dentist, where I will be scrupulously honest about exactly how often I floss, so this is going to be what the young 'uns call a microblog. I just wanted to record a few recent observations about life at Hippie Do As You Please School.
Charlie is learning to weld. A parent brings in, I don't know, a travel forge or something, sets it up in a convenient alcove, and...teaches kids to weld. On welding days Charlie comes home incandescent with happiness, full of stories of what thing he welded to what other thing. (The stories...are kind of short: Rod, rod. Bolt, plate. Piece ...
Source: a little pregnant - October 1, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge Source Type: blogs
Microhippie
I have five minutes before I leave for the dentist, where I will be scrupulously honest about exactly how often I floss, so this is going to be what the young 'uns call a microblog. I just wanted to record a few recent observations about life at Hippie Do As You Please School.
Charlie is learning to weld. A parent brings in, I don't know, a travel forge or something, sets it up in a convenient alcove, and...teaches kids to weld. On welding days Charlie comes home incandescent with happiness, full of stories of what thing he welded to what other thing. (The stories...are kind of short: Rod, rod. Bolt, plate. Piece ...
Source: a little pregnant - October 1, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge Source Type: blogs
Que la raison ne conna ît point
This "news" is not new, now eight months old, but I just saw it this week:
IVF technology is overused and has health risks for babies, landmark article in British Medical Journal argues
Women should ensure they have exhausted all options before resorting to IVF, according to international experts concerned the procedure is being overused. [...]
Fifteen global experts co-wrote the article expressing concern over what they say is the liberal use of IVF in many countries.
The article warns extended use of IVF increases the risk of harm, with multiple pregnancies associated with complications for mothers and infants...
Source: a little pregnant - September 12, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Ben there, done that Charles in charge I've learned a lot...but I'm not sure it's worth it. Source Type: blogs
Que la raison ne conna ît point
This"news" is not new, now eight months old, but I just saw it this week:IVF technology is overused and has health risks for babies, landmark article in British Medical Journal arguesWomen should ensure they have exhausted all options before resorting to IVF, according to international experts concerned the procedure is being overused. [...]Fifteen global experts co-wrote the article expressing concern over what they say is the liberal use of IVF in many countries.The article warns extended use of IVF increases the risk of harm, with multiple pregnancies associated with complications for mothers and infants, and ...
Source: a little pregnant - September 12, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Ben there, done that Charles in charge ' ve learned a lot...but I m not sure it s worth it. Source Type: blogs
Que la raison ne conna ît point
This "news" is not new, now eight months old, but I just saw it this week:
IVF technology is overused and has health risks for babies, landmark article in British Medical Journal argues
Women should ensure they have exhausted all options before resorting to IVF, according to international experts concerned the procedure is being overused. [...]
Fifteen global experts co-wrote the article expressing concern over what they say is the liberal use of IVF in many countries.
The article warns extended use of IVF increases the risk of harm, with multiple pregnancies associated with complications for mothers and infants...
Source: a little pregnant - September 12, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Ben there, done that Charles in charge I've learned a lot...but I'm not sure it's worth it. Source Type: blogs
Que la raison ne connaît point
This "news" is not new, now eight months old, but I just saw it this week:
IVF technology is overused and has health risks for babies, landmark article in British Medical Journal argues
Women should ensure they have exhausted all options before resorting to IVF, according to international experts concerned the procedure is being overused. [...]
Fifteen global experts co-wrote the article expressing concern over what they say is the liberal use of IVF in many countries.
The article warns extended use of IVF increases the risk of harm, with multiple pregnancies associated with complications for mothers and infants...
Source: a little pregnant - September 12, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Ben there, done that Charles in charge I've learned a lot...but I'm not sure it's worth it. Source Type: blogs
Que la raison ne conna ît point
This "news" is not new, now eight months old, but I just saw it this week:
IVF technology is overused and has health risks for babies, landmark article in British Medical Journal argues
Women should ensure they have exhausted all options before resorting to IVF, according to international experts concerned the procedure is being overused. [...]
Fifteen global experts co-wrote the article expressing concern over what they say is the liberal use of IVF in many countries.
The article warns extended use of IVF increases the risk of harm, with multiple pregnancies associated with complications for mothers and infants...
Source: a little pregnant - September 11, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Ben there, done that Charles in charge I've learned a lot...but I'm not sure it's worth it. Source Type: blogs
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
You know, Ben's morbid bent doesn't surprise me anymore. Over spring break we rented an apartment in Boston, the better to let Charlie mingle with his people. As Ben and I explored the neighborhood together, he noticed a cemetery."It's convenient that our apartment is near a graveyard," he said conversationally, "in case one of us dies during this vacation."
He wouldn't drop the subject until I promised to take him there — but not that night, I told him, since we needed to get back for dinner. "Tomorrow," he specified. Sure, I said. "In the morning," he ...
Source: a little pregnant - September 1, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Ben there, done that Source Type: blogs
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
You know, Ben's morbid bent doesn't surprise me anymore. Over spring break we rented an apartment in Boston, the betterto let Charlie mingle with his people. As Ben and I explored the neighborhood together, he noticed a cemetery."It's convenient that our apartment is near a graveyard," he said conversationally,"in case one of us dies during this vacation."He wouldn't drop the subject until I promised to take him there — but not that night, I told him, since we needed to get back for dinner. "Tomorrow," he specified. Sure, I said."In the morning," he insi...
Source: a little pregnant - September 1, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Ben there, done that Source Type: blogs
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
You know, Ben's morbid bent doesn't surprise me anymore. Over spring break we rented an apartment in Boston, the better to let Charlie mingle with his people. As Ben and I explored the neighborhood together, he noticed a cemetery."It's convenient that our apartment is near a graveyard," he said conversationally, "in case one of us dies during this vacation."
He wouldn't drop the subject until I promised to take him there — but not that night, I told him, since we needed to get back for dinner. "Tomorrow," he specified. Sure, I said. "In the morning," he ...
Source: a little pregnant - September 1, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Tags: Ben there, done that Source Type: blogs
Nor custom stale
Rough morning. Charlie's rocking and rolling, objecting to everything, construing even the mildest guiding word as a slur against his honouuuur. After sixty or seventy gentle remonstrances, quiet redirections, and calm changes of subject, I'm starting to lose my cool. I finally fling away my patience with both hands and tell him to go, just gooooooooooo. GO get in the CAR before I go all cannibal hamster and eat my tender pink young.
His parting salvo is "Ben never has to get sent anywhere when he's behaving badly!"
The door slams and Ben runs over to it. Ben, you see, is helpful.
He opens it, leans o...
Source: a little pregnant - February 7, 2014 Category: Child Development Authors: Julie Source Type: blogs
