Parenting Watch

If it's Wednesday, I must be finally getting around to Sunday's paper

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This morning Paul and I were messaging about Peggy Orenstein’s outstanding article on donor eggs in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Paul, quoting the article: One newly pregnant woman told me she picked her donor…

a little pregnant: Summer squash

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This weekend I had a mammogram as part of my routine pre-cycle testing. (I called on Friday to schedule it. I was told, You can either come in October, or come tomorrow. And although there was hardly time to shave…

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Open mouth, insert speculum…I mean, foot

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When you get right down to it I do feel a little bit sorry for my doctors. They’ve been nice people, all of them, well intentioned and caring, but let any one of them utter a single phrase that is…

The breast-laid plan

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I probably shouldn’t admit this, but you know what I’m looking forward to with this baby? The possibility of giving up on breastfeeding. Let me say at the outset that nothing would make me happier than a good nursing…

OH MY GOD THERE'S A SIX-INCH GASH IN THIS POST

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a ridiculously bulbous woman in possession of a third-trimester fetus must be in want of some way to get that sucker out. I am at that point myself. At almost 31 weeks, I…