Eclectic Muddlehood

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Archive for March, 2006

Why I Love Miranda Bailey and Rachel Green

Posted: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 @ 10:21 am in My Television Addiction, Childbirth | No Comments »

Almost every one of my childbirth ed students can easily recollect the sitcom episode when Murphy Brown gives birth, screaming like a lunatic, shaking her support people like ragdolls as she strangles them. It is a cultural image burned into the mind and spirit of most childbearing women I come across these days. As a […]

Set Up For Failure

Posted: Sunday, March 19th, 2006 @ 5:30 pm in Pregnancy, Childbirth, Motherhood | No Comments »

In this global, interconnected world we live in, it angers me beyond belief how alone and isolated most new American mothers feel in the first delicate months postpartum. I visited a client and her 4 week old baby last Friday and it broke my heart to see how exhausted and alone she was feeling. As […]