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Bella Redux

So, I wrote this thing for The Hairpin about Twilight and the "empowered" heroine the other week, and it kind of blew up beyond my expectations. The piece engendered (heh) some interesting...

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Breastfeeding Isn't Free

One of the things you encounter in most neutrally-toned parenting handbooks that tiptoe their way through the feeding-your-baby minefield is this fact: "Formula is expensive."And it is a fact. Formula...

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Feeding the Baby

Here is the follow-up breastfeeding story that I posted over on my Boob Tumblr, Feeding the Baby:This is what we do, now that Ames is four months old: When Ames naps, I hook up to the breast pump for...

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An Interesting Planet

I was just thinking of this passage, from a book with a character after whom we (sort of) named Ames, and I got the urge to post it here. So here it is! From Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, Reverend Ames...

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Bodies and Minds

I've never really been too afraid of childbirth. That is, until the last couple of weeks. I think I had some Braxton Hicks contractions the other day and it just put me in a really bad mood for the...

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Belly Girl

Belle is a sweet girl. Her full name is Isabel Archer, after one of my favorite literary characters, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, and also (of course) a little bit after Archie....

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Breastfeeding Isn't Free

One of the things you encounter in most neutrally-toned parenting handbooks that tiptoe their way through the feeding-your-baby minefield is this fact: "Formula is expensive."And it is a fact. Formula...

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Feeding the Baby

Here is the follow-up breastfeeding story that I posted over on my Boob Tumblr, Feeding the Baby:This is what we do, now that Ames is four months old: When Ames naps, I hook up to the breast pump for...

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