Mamazine.com If the nightmare-inducing parenting manuals are to be believed, important learning windows are rapidly slamming shut in my face right now. Some are already locked and weatherproofed with the shades drawn and have been for years.
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The Mothers Movement Online I read Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born years before having my first baby. Not yet a mother myself, the idea of mothers choosing to reclaim authority over their births from medical professionals seemed radical and perhaps even a bit dangerous. Yet it appealed to me as a practical act of protest available to any pregnant woman willing to insist that she maintain authority over her own body and responsibility for her own choices, and willing to require that her caregivers respect both.
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