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Tag Archives: babycenter

Why I’m grateful for socialized medicine

June 13, 2013 at 23:31

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Praise here to all parents who lovingly pack a bag for their child, knowing they will be cut open the following day. As an emotional experience, May’s surgery was a complete disaster. There is no getting around that. When we entered the recovery room post-surgery, a child was rasping with the force of his own [...]

Why I’m taking a break from BabyCenter

May 24, 2013 at 12:27

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May and I

So, we all know about May’s surgery on June 3rd. This isn’t a post about that, but it goes a long way to explaining why I need a break from BabyCenter and can’t write to deadline for a bit. BabyCenter and it’s community of women, especially the bloggers that I write alongside, has been a [...]

Mother of disabled child leaves her alone in the car

April 7, 2013 at 15:03

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May this week in Wales

Would it shock you any less if you knew that the mother who left her daughter alone in the car was me, and that child was May? Parents of disabled children have to make many adjustments to their lives, and some of those are to do with ideas of what is acceptable with children and [...]

I ignored the advice of my daughter’s doctor

March 21, 2013 at 03:29

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Today on the BabyCenter Blog, I discussed how sometimes it is inappropriate for me to follow a doctor’s advice. Not all the time, just sometimes. But, I seem to have unwittingly given lots of paranoid mothers the rationale to not vaccinate their children. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I intended to [...]

Guest post: Our “killer” surgery decision for our son

March 13, 2013 at 22:57

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Jamie Robinson writes the blog One Man and One Wee Bairn and also shares space with me on the BabyCentre Blog UK where he is the only best daddy blogger on the site! I’ve really enjoyed his posts there and was thrilled when he agreed to share his son’s story on Mama Lewis. Jamie and [...]