book read; weekend update
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fleaBarbara L. Behrmann, The Breastfeeding Cafe. This was a new purchase for the La Leche League library. Its stated goal is to help provide some of the cultural milieu of breastfeeding that many women today didn't grow up with - the stories told by mother and grandmothers and girlfriends. It's a lot of diverse voices. It's strongly pro-breastfeeding, of course, so the stories by people who gave up breastfeeding a child before they had wanted to are full of regret. I think it might be interesting to compare and contrast with this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594860408/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/102-8230910-7160104?v=glance&s=books&st=* but we'll never get the latter at La Leche League, too snarky! Most interesting to me were the stories of teenage parents who found breastfeeding a vital and transforming source of empowerment.
I also paged through the Gary Ezzo book On Becoming Babywise that many may be familiar with because it is so controversial. (It is NOT a La Leche League book!) I have found that at least half of the parenting books I read appear to be at least half written by imbeciles and lunatics. This book is 100% lunatic. I have rarely read a crazier, more biased book on social engineering masquerading as medical advice. I'm considering burning it on the fire.
Survived weekend 1 of Daddy's in Seattle just fine. Seattleites may be amused to know that he is staying at a place downtown called the Green Tortoise (?) where all the sheets and towels are green. It was so nice to drive out to Pittsboro with the greenchick and meet ste_noni and the munchkin and smonster and amyth and what I kept thinking was, "Who don't we do this more often?" (Also, "Why are both the adults in this car obsessed with the noises turn signals make?") The munchkin was a right and proper and beautiful baby and my goodness you forget how they are when they're babies once yours gets big. I got to hold her as ste_noni paid the check and I think I managed to remember how to do it.
So then I came home and got all nostalgic and looked up pictures of what mine was like at 5 months. So tiny! http://dynamite.ce.ncsu.edu/~metryby/PhotoAlbums/Albums/January_2004/Pages/IMG_0537.html
I also paged through the Gary Ezzo book On Becoming Babywise that many may be familiar with because it is so controversial. (It is NOT a La Leche League book!) I have found that at least half of the parenting books I read appear to be at least half written by imbeciles and lunatics. This book is 100% lunatic. I have rarely read a crazier, more biased book on social engineering masquerading as medical advice. I'm considering burning it on the fire.
Survived weekend 1 of Daddy's in Seattle just fine. Seattleites may be amused to know that he is staying at a place downtown called the Green Tortoise (?) where all the sheets and towels are green. It was so nice to drive out to Pittsboro with the greenchick and meet ste_noni and the munchkin and smonster and amyth and what I kept thinking was, "Who don't we do this more often?" (Also, "Why are both the adults in this car obsessed with the noises turn signals make?") The munchkin was a right and proper and beautiful baby and my goodness you forget how they are when they're babies once yours gets big. I got to hold her as ste_noni paid the check and I think I managed to remember how to do it.
So then I came home and got all nostalgic and looked up pictures of what mine was like at 5 months. So tiny! http://dynamite.ce.ncsu.edu/~metryby/PhotoAlbums/Albums/January_2004/Pages/IMG_0537.html
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Date: 2005-11-14 10:59 pm (UTC)