Posts tagged pregnancy

A quick roundup of what’s catching my eye, filtered by @ccf_families:

Rising Family Income: More Work, Not Raises

By CATHERINE RAMPELL

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/rising-family-income-more-work-not-raises/

Traditional families today earn more than they did three decades ago — but primarily because they’re working more, a recent paper from the Hamilton Project finds.

A Fair Wage for Home Care Workers

By PAULA SPAN

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/a-fair-wage-for-home-care-workers/ 

Should home care employees receive minimum wage and overtime pay?

Myth of the Pregnant Superwoman

By LISA BELKIN

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/myth-of-the-pregnant-superwoman/ 

Who decides how much stress is too much during a pregnancy?

Stable Enough for a Pregnancy?

By LISA BELKIN

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/stable-enough-for-a-pregnancy/

Looking for advice on whether to become pregnant if it means weaning off anti-depression and anti-anxiety drugs.

Ending Marital Score-Keeping

By LISA BELKIN

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/ending-marital-score-keeping/

 How to stop counting and comparing, and love your life.

Equal Workloads for Husbands and Wives

By LISA BELKIN

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/equal-workloads-for-husbands-and-wives/

New data show men and women doing remarkably equal shares at home and at work.

In case anyone missed it! I’m loading it here cuz hey, it’s “research” for a thing I #amwriting. #Gender bits highlighted.

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Pregnant women are smug
Everyone knows it, nobody says it
Because they’re pregnant
Effing son of a gun
You think you’re so deep now, you give me the creeps 
Now that you’re pregnant

I can’t count all the ways how
You speak in cliches now 

Riki: So, do you want a boy or girl?
Kate: Oh, doesn’t matter as long as it’s healthy
Riki: Really? ‘Cause I don’t feel that those two things are related. It’s not like one or the other.
Kate: Oh, really, as long as it’s healthy.

I can’t wait to hear someone say
“Don’t care if it’s brain dead
Don’t care if it’s limbless 
If it has a penis” 

Pregnant women are smug
Everyone knows it, nobody says it
Because they’re pregnant
This zen world you’re enjoying
Makes you really annoying

Riki: So, is it a boy or girl?
Kate: Oh, we know, but we’re not telling.
Riki: What you’re gonna name it?
Kate: Oh, we know, but we’re not telling.
Riki: Who’s the father?
Kate: Oh, we know, but we’re not telling. 

Bitch, I don’t really care
I was being polite
Since you have no life now
That you’re pregnant

You say you’re walking on air
You think that you’re glowing
But you’ve been ho’ing
And now you’re pregnant

You’re just giving birth now
You’re not Mother Earth now

Riki: Oh my gosh, I’ve got so much going on. I got my novel published, I moved, I got married. 
Kate: Gosh, you know, everything seems so trivial now that I’m pregnant.
Riki: Well, I also helped end gang violence in Mexico when…
Kate: You know, I can’t even remember what I did before I was pregnant. Everything else seems so meaningless.

Pregnant women are smug
Everyone knows it, nobody says it
Because they’re pregnant
Effing son of a gun
You think you’re so deep now, you give me the creeps now
Now that you’re pregnant

-Lyrics and video by Garfunkel and Oates

http://bit.ly/dPSalv ORIGINS author @anniemurphypaul on epigenetic research, the anxiety pregnant women feel, and what it was like to report research on pregnancy while pregnant.  A snippet from her interview at She Writes with IN HER OWN SWEET TIME author Rachel Lehmann-Haupt:

Rachel Lehmann-Haupt: How did being a mother influence your point of view while researching it? 

Annie Murphy Paul: Because I was pregnant while I was reporting and writing Origins, I think I was much more sensitive to the way messages are composed and presented to pregnant women. So often research findings are made to sound like a scolding or a guilt trip, and I wanted to be very careful not to add to the anxiety pregnant women already feel. I found that the information I was learning from the doctors and scientists I interviewed was actually very encouraging and empowering, and I tried to communicate that feeling of optimism to readers.

My pregnancy changed the way scientists related to me, too. During interviews, they would gesture at my belly to make a point, or they would use the word “you” instead of “the pregnant woman.” When they caught sight of me at professional meetings, they often looked kind of stunned—I compare it to a whale showing up at a conference of marine biologists! At those same meetings, usually held in bland, florescent-lit hotel conference rooms, my eyes would get teary when I saw ultrasound images of fetuses, or heard recorded wails of newborns during the presentation of research findings. What was professional became personal for me, as well as the other way around.

Read the full interview at She Writes.