Surrogacy Part Two: Why did I choose this?
In part two of her surrogacy series (you can read part one here, A.M. discusses her pregnancy and goes into why she became a gestational carrier in the first place.
The cunnilingus chair
A while back, I celebrated the 10 year anniversary of my relationship with my favorite armchair. Come with me as I recount our many wonderful years together.
Surrogacy Part One: How I became a gestational carrier
In the first of a two-part installment, A.M. explains how she became a gestational carrier for a same-sex couple.
Confessions of a progressive mama: I sleep-trained my baby
Megan’s parenting confession is “wrapped in guilt, cloaked in shame, manage to stick around despite all my attempts at denial, rationalization, and even good old fashion confrontation.” What is it? She sleep-trained her baby.
Why age doesn’t matter in marriage or parenthood
Ruth is a twenty-seven year old mama married to a sixty-two year old man — and you thought you had to deal with looks when you go out?!
Will my child still love me if we wean?
If you wean your child, will he or she still be close? Do you ever just feel like a “walking dairy rack?”
Toilet training on your kid’s schedule
Do you really need a plan of attack for potty training? What happens if you just let your kid run around naked?
Stop “trying to be good” in your birth choices
“The more I talked with my doula, the more I realized that not scheduling an induction, not having an epidural, etc. was me trying to be good. Trying to do it right…”