Eleanor Rose Erwin was born early this morning, Saturday June 17, at 4:27am after a fast and furious 2-hour labor. She weighed in at 8lbs, 4oz, her head measured 14.25in, and she is 20in long. The boys were there for the birth and are ecstatic to have a new baby in the house!

Pictures and story after much-needed rest & bonding...

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, theoumotel!!!!!

For you!

( I got a response from Livejournal regarding my last letter. )

Scientists have discovered that drinking milk and eating cheese stimulates a protein than prompts the release of eggs and makes women five times more likely to give birth to twins ... They found that the twinning rate in vegans is one fifth of that in vegetarians and meat-eaters ... Other scientists say vegan women may bear fewer twins because ( Read more... )

Denise ( Read more... )

That's right, ladies, I'm talking to you. If you haven't forgotten (and your government hasn't), you are really just a baby-making vessel. I mean, really, first and foremost, you are a reproductive machine. That's your, um, God- or whatever-given mission. And you're failing at it miserably, ya hear?

According to the WaPo:
The U.S. infant ( Read more... )

I've been slowly catching up on most of the tech blogs I had subscribed to in the last 2 years. Lots of good posts about information design, interaction design and usability. Lots of good abstract nuggets about "findability" and meta-blogging. Lots and lots of intellectual gourmet ( Read more... )

AlterNet is hosting a truly phenomenal article on working women's wages, a.k.a "paid maternity leave."

Pretty much every aspect of women's reproductive work is punished economically in the American workplace. And that affects all two-earner, nuclear households -- the ideal to which we're all supposed to aspire (the wage gap is estimated to cost ( Read more... )

No, you can't come in the kitchen yet. Lissi barfed on the floor and I need to clean it up ( Read more... )