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Yesterday was Lann’s fifteenth birthday. It has been fifteen years since I started to become forged in the fires of motherhood. Fifteen years since I brought that first baby to my breast and of...

https://talkbirth.me/2018/09/22/lann-is-15/

I lie in bed with him, cementing the details in my memory. The way the morning air is heavy and green. The sound of last night’s raindrops continuing to drip from the overfull gutters on the ro...

https://talkbirth.me/2017/12/28/the-last-time/

“Women’s liberation must be mothers’ liberation or it is nothing.” –Germain Greer, in The Whole Woman, quoted in Liberating Motherhood Since I have three homeschooled children (ages 6-1...

https://talkbirth.me/2016/12/05/talk-books-liberating-motherhood/

I actually got the perfect picture this morning of our birthday boy! Tanner is TWO! He says: “I’m two!” He speaks in 2-3 word sentences and adds words every day. He can basically say anythi...

https://talkbirth.me/2016/10/30/happy-birthday-tanner/

Patricia Harman is an experienced midwife, beginning as a community midwife in the 1960’s and then becoming a CNM and maintaining a busy practice with her obstetrician husband Tom. Her memories...

https://talkbirth.me/2016/09/28/talk-books-lost-on-hope-island/

“When he becomes a father, a man leaves behind his life as a single individual and expands into a more inclusive role. He becomes a link in an unbroken chain. And in doing so, he himself underg...

https://talkbirth.me/2016/06/18/happy-fathers-day-3/

There is a certain fire to books written about women’s health, empowerment, and feminism in the 1970’s and 1980’s. I’ve been extremely fond of birth (activism) books written during that t...

https://talkbirth.me/2016/05/19/thursday-tidbits-birthing-courage/

The serious little face. The fishing pole. The lactivist-baby t. The tiny Crocs. The blond hair. This is what an eighteenmonthababy looks like. I feel inspired to share a quick update post about ...

https://talkbirth.me/2016/04/30/eighteenmonthababy/

My almost 18 month old has a favorite pair of shoes and will rarely wear anything but them: a hand-me-down pair of Robeez soft leather shoes with cute little puppies on them. My daughter wore her...

https://talkbirth.me/2016/03/25/product-review-robeez-soft-sole-boots/

So, I posted that I’d finished my dissertation and then I ran away to the beach and haven’t posted since! We’ve been wanting to take a family vacation to Dauphin Island for several years no...

https://talkbirth.me/2016/03/01/home-from-the-beach/