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Mommy week in review: Martyr mommy, day care questions, teleworking

by Morra Aarons Mele at 3:15pm Tue, 30 Jun 2009 under breastfeeding, telecommuting, teething, pumping at work, Cisco, Babies, Family Dynamics, teleworking, flexibleworkarrangement; 256 views

Today, the Mommy Week in Review posts a special "controlling beatch" edition. Plus, should I put the baby in day care, are arrowroot biscuits the gateway to obesity, and how to fight for your right to breastfeed at work.

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Mommy Week in Review

by Morra Aarons Mele at 8:00am Wed, 24 Jun 2009 under Cribsheet, Parenting, cryitout sleeptraining nocrysleepsolution breastfeeding; 332 views

Choreplay, sleep training, weaning hysteria and media portrayals of surreal working mothers...

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Talking Womenomics

by Morra Aarons Mele at 4:33pm Wed, 17 Jun 2009 under Mommy & Family, Money & Personal Finance, Stress, Feminism, Family Dynamics, Balance, Career, womenomics, claireshipman, kattykay, worklifebalance, workplaceflexibility; 436 views

Flexibility at work “isn’t like a favor you hand out at a children’s birthday party.” It’s good for business and good for people. “For the past 30 years [women] were happy to sit quietly at the boardroom table and that’s changed: the boardroom table has to change. We think that can finally happen now.”

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My (semi) natural childbirth- a happy birth story

by Morra Aarons Mele at 5:05pm Thu, 11 Jun 2009 under labor, childbirth, birth, natural childbirth, doula, pitocin; 1463 views

This is a happy birth story. For all of you expectant mothers who are avoiding people's birth stories for fear of losing your will to deliver, let me say that it is possible to have the birth you hoped for but also, birth is only the beginning! No matter how your birth goes, you will love your baby and he will love you.

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