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news item: “formerly infertile”
This article popped up in our Twitter feed a little while back, and I read it, favourited the tweet and then promptly forgot about it. Not because it wasn’t interesting, but because, you know, shiny...
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featured post: “where do I belong?” by EndoJourney
When I was twenty-five weeks pregnant (in five days it’ll be exactly a year ago, holy cow), I wrote a post about “the other side of infertility.” When PAIL was first formed, I revisited that post...
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news item: “12 Things You Should Never Ask a Woman”
This news item brought to you once again by “Things SRB Sees on Twitter, Somehow!” Meaning, I don’t follow Huffington Post*, but someone retweeted it. I clicked on it. I read it. I laughed. I nodded....
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news item: “Not Just the Baby Blues”
The article and topic for today’s discussion was submitted to us by mandski of Chhoto Pakhi (formerly AS of Mira’s Mama): It seems that a lot of PAIL members have experienced prenatal or postpartum...
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news item: ‘letting myself go’
In college I joined the cross-country team. Now don’t think I was, or am, some healthy runner chick. Yeah, no. I joined because I knew I had to start exercising regularly and I knew I wouldn’t keep it...
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featured post –“seeing pink, blue– and green” by keiko
This week’s feature post is taking us back to PAIL’s roots. When we debuted PAIL on June 1st, we had a very specific vision for tweaking the PAIL acronym, settling on “Pregnant/Parenting through...
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news item: “while you were puking…” (SSRI risky during pregnancy)
Today’s post ended up evolving into something of a guest post from Ms Future PharmD, with an assist from yours truly. It has been really interesting and illuminating getting to know the expertise that...
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news item: I’ve Been Drinking Through My Pregnancy
Drinking during pregnancy. I’d hazard a guess that this is a hot button topic, and though it’s part of the title of this post, it’s not the whole point of this post. We’ll get back to that. Last week...
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mothering, a tribute to the cause – (elizabeth)
This time of the year is all about honoring mothers. Over the next two weeks, we have International Bereaved Mothers Day (May 5), Birth Mother’s Day (May 11), Mother’s Day (May 12), and Step Mother’s...
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news item: “Prenatal Testing: It’s Just Information, Not Answers — or a...
Prenatal testing. Did you do it? This week we came across a really interesting article about prenatal testing and the decisions parents make in response to the results they get. It’s written by a woman...
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september 2013 monthly theme – why we blog
When I started my blog, it was a place to post pictures and hilarious anecdotes about my kid because I had quit Facebook. I had been secretly reading IF blogs when I was pregnant with him, hoping to...
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