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Sometimes the mom blogosphere seems like an international conspiracy to halt the human race. Like the most recent episode of the video blog Momversations, in which four mom bloggers talk about sex after having a baby. "It took a really long time for me to feel like a woman…maybe a year, maybe more, maybe a couple years," says Nataly Kogan. Dooce's own Heather Armstrong admits that she didn't have sex for seven months after her daughter was born, and in an interesting analogy, Mindy Roberts says, "I've never seen a kitchen that turned out anything that was worth eating that didn't get all messy and icky in the process." More »
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I can think of one positive outcome of John McCain's putting those dismissive air quotes around women's "health": it seems to have inspired many women to share their own natal health stories, no matter how heartbreaking. In today's New York Times, N. West Moss talks about the secret pain of miscarriage. "To the extent that we have a language to talk about miscarriage, it’s full of airy platitudes," Moss writes, but the reality is a deep, sometimes unyielding ache. More »
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