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NPFP Guest Post: It’s Never Simple

Welcome to RMB’s Naked Pictures of Faceless People, a series of guest posts from diverse anonymous bloggers. (Read more about NPFP’s origins.) These are the posts that are jumping to get out of us, but for whatever reason — safety, embarrassment, conflict of interest, protection of loved ones’ reputations or feelings, or so on [...]

Moments in time: a love letter

Welcome to the February Carnival of Natural Parenting: Love and partners!

This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing about how a co-parent has or has not supported us in our dedication to natural parenting. Please read to the [...]

I need to read to write: a good ol’ fashioned link post

After several months of completely ignoring its existence, I’m trying to clean up my Google Reader: trim it down, shift it over, and make it reflect the blogs that I actually want to read, but don’t catch in my Twitter stream due to missed timing (or the author — gasp! — not tweeting). I am [...]

The solutions are… here

In replying to some comments on my last post, There are no solutions in the status quo, I was thinking that while heady and intellectual is good sometimes, so too are concrete examples. So here is what I would want changed to be supported by society, and what things did go/are going well:

When the Boychick [...]

In his own time

There’s a post I’d been meaning to write for most of this last year, which was to be titled “Of babies and big boys”, on why my baby was still my baby, on how mystified I was on some toddlers’ and preschoolers’ insistence that they were not babies but were, in fact, a “big kid” [...]

A day without nursing

The Boychick has been nursing a lot less in recent months. It started when I needed to put limits on when and for how long he could nurse, especially during and around my period — I kept expecting the sensations to bother me less, and for him to nurse more, at different points in my [...]

I never went back: on psychiatric ignorance of breastfeeding

I wrote this piece (cross-posted) for Melodie at Breastfeeding Moms Unite! She’s running a series on mental health and breastfeeding, and asked several bloggers for stories on their experiences with the mental health field while nursing. While I haven’t had any contact with mental health practitioners in the 2.5 years the Boychick has been breastfed, [...]

The misogyny of denying milk-making moms mental-health medication

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week (even if it is almost over), I offer a post about breastfeeding, blame-the-kyriarchy style.

Perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to have missed this scenario, but I, at the intersection of those with lactating breasts and those with mental illness, have seen it far too often: a woman goes to her [...]

“How else would you have us say it?”

Reader Gayle left a fabulously intelligent question on the post The personal and the political:

I have seen debates on the subjects you mention where one side mentions that what the other side has said hurts them/shames them/makes them feel inadequate. To which the other side replies, “How else would you have us say it?” What [...]

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