Sunday, June 28, 2009

Pregnancy sites

I have been doing a lot of internet based research during my time with chronic morning sickness, and I can recommend the following sites:

- Mama-Is. http://www.mama-is.com/ This lady sure has some strong ideas about mothering, mainly that it is awesome and a total reasons to respect and worship women. We disagree on some points (she doesn't want women separated from their babibes AT ALL for the first two years... so tough if you want a career) but I love her affirming cartoons. The latest, 'Inspiring People', is a good example.

= Blue Milk http://bluemilk.wordpress.com/10-plus-things-about-feminist-mothers/ .

- The Age Essential Baby forums. http://members.essentialbaby.com.au/index.php? The threads on this are enormous! They cover every possible topic to do with babies. Plus they set up a forum of each two-week window for due dates, so my group is Due January 15-31. Together we chat about what we are going through and what our hopes and fears are. Right now there is a lot of morning sickness, worries about getting through to twelve weeks, intimidation by the idea of first-time motherhood (for some of us!) and how we are coping with the fatigue. Oh and what to buy, how our partners are reacting, and whether we are showing yet... and so on.

I will post more as I find them... :-)

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