Poem for my daughter on a hot sunny day.

Ode to my little daughter, who never seems to be able to stay dressed when at home. We made this one up tryin' to stay cool in the paddlin' pool.

My toddler is lovely when she’s naked and cuddly,
but things can get freaky when she’s naked and cheeky.

Times can be bad when she’s naked and sad,
and she don’t give a toss when she’s naked and cross.

Things can get hairy when she’s naked and scary,
but she needs loads of care when she’s naked and scared.

And when the day’s hot and the clothes all come off,
what is the bet, she’ll be naked and wet?

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For Claire...

This needed more than a 140 char tweet!

I found this on the Science Based Medicine blog, one commenter references breast feeding outdoors being illegal in some states. Maybe she would know?

Link to article: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3096#more-3096

Quote from comments: 

"Restaurants eject nursing women; most states won’t allow you to breastfeed outdoors, so mothers have to find bathrooms or at least pray for a mother’s room or women’s lounge; breasts are seen as sexual objects and thus not suitable for view by children; women even get asked to stop nursing on airplanes when they’re covered. It’s not good. The real problem isn’t that there’s too much formula feeding. The real problem is that we have a social taboo about it. Our society supports it as long as it isn’t seen, which is a bit like supporting equal education for blacks 50 years ago as long as they don’t actually show up at your school. Which is to say, not helpful at all."

The rest of her comment is quite good too.  I'm saddened by the fact that breastfeeding is so heavily encouraged for new mothers antenatally and neonatally, yet when they reemerge as new breastfeeding mothers society provides more lip-service than acceptance.

I'm also saddened by the fact that women who don't breastfeed can find themselves either ostracised or wracked with guilt.  Women need accurate information about breastfeeding, sure, but all the information in the world won't help them if they live in a society that implicitly frowns upon it.

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Just sayin'

Having a bit of a chat with someone about Islam on facebook. Isn't facebook a wonderful thing?  Here's a snippet:

It is my personal belief that supposedly liberated western women who will not leave the house without make-up or hairless legs/underarms or who will not stand up for their right to make their own choices regarding their healthcare (don't even get me started on that one...) or who accept the status quo when it comes to childcare and maternity provisions, are just as much prisoners of their culture as women who won't leave the house without a burka or hijab.

There are very few truly free women in the world.

Just sayin'

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