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Extraordinary Prenatal Care

12/26/11 10:00am by BirthingBeautif...
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I am receiving good prenatal care. But I am also receiving extraordinary prenatal care. My midwives have sat with me and listened to my hopes and dreams and fears about this birth. They know how close I am to my parents and my siblings and my grandparents. They know how difficult it is for me to see my grandfather, who suffered a severe stroke just two weeks ago, so sick and frail and vulnerable, caught in between life and death for the time being. And so one of my midwives has checked in on me every single day since my grandfather’s stroke. To see how he’s doing. To see how I’m doing.  Read more >

A Discovery of Witches: Slow to Start, Fast to Finish

6/2/11 5:33am by BirthingBeautif...
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The only bad thing about Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches is that the second installment in this trilogy is not available for me to buy. (Actually, it’s pretty bad that the second installment wasn’t available for me to buy the moment I finished the last sentence of the book. I was ready for it right at that very second!)  Read more >

The Subtle Beauty of Caleb's Crossing

4/14/11 5:34pm by BirthingBeautif...
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Before reading Geraldine Brooks' latest novel, Caleb's Crossing, I never considered myself to be a lover of books set in the 17th, 18th, and even 19th centuries. I gave up on these literary time periods early on in college, dismissing the novels that they spawned -- and the later novels that paid homage to them -- as ridiculous, un-captivating, and even (gasp!) boring.  Read more >

On Being Pink and Blue and Feminine and Masculine and Strong and Sensitive

1/18/11 5:06pm by BirthingBeautif...
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What does it mean to be masculine?  To be feminine?  What do my children associate with girls and boys and men and women and masculinity and femininity?  What traits to they see reflected in me?  In their father?  In themselves? I thought about these questions (and then some) when I read Fertile Feminism’s recent piece on “Gender According to Teens.”  She writes:  Read more >

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Kristen O
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September 2009
About Me: 
Feminist mother, philosophical doula, and snarky storyteller in the process of leaving a career in academic philosophy for a career as a doula-blogger-public-speaker-maternity-care-advocate. All while parenting two young children. At home. Without an in-house Starbucks.

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