moved

I have moved this blog to another site. If you'd like the address, e-mail me. caseyhaas2 at gmail dot com.

:-)

good bye for now blogger.

Attached

"Attachment is as central to the developing child as eating and breathing."-- Robert Shaw, M.D.

Privacy

I am going to make this blog private soon, for invited readers only. If you would like to be a reader, you can request to be. I will invite people who I know read it already by their comments.

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Goodnight.

I'm a bad blogger

I have so many things on my mind and heart that I'd love to share, but I am not good about coming here and writing. I want to do better, for the sake of remembering the precious moments I have with my kids.

I found an amazing website that has greatly encouraged me. http://www.gentlechristianmothers.com/

More on this later.

In my skin

So generally I am comfortable in my skin. Yes, having and feeding babies has changed my body. Duh. But there is something great about that, in a way. My body has grown 2 humans and has been pretty much the sole source of nutrition for one of those humans.

But you know what?

It is really hard for me to be ok with my body when I go to the pool and other moms have boob jobs and tummy tucks and no stretch marks.

Blah!

something my kids are going to find so annoying some day

I laugh at all my own jokes. Like seriously. I think I'm hilarious. :-)

BoBB

I re-watched The Business of Being Born tonight. Danny wanted to play xbox so I had the Netflix on demand to myself; and someone on facebook had just mentioned watching it.

I loved it again, of course. I did see it through new eyes now that I've had an amazing homebirth experience.

One thing that stood out to me both times: This male OB says (I'm paraphrasing) "I call it feminine machoism. You see a woman with a 3 month old baby and she says 'oh, I did it natural'. I just don't see the point."

Of course you don't, you're a MAN. duh.

I think my favorite guy in the film is Dr. Marsden Wagner, an MD who is the former director of women's and children's health in industrialized countries for the WHO. I love LOVE doctors who are so obviously committed to doing what is best for the patients that they are willing to speak hard truths about the system they are a part of.

Forget the facts about maternity care in America, there really are just so many snippets of wisdom about normal birth in there from the people who contributed.