september mama

i have spent the past two days (so far) searching for articles or essays on some combination of 'pregnancy + spirituality or pagan or ritual or metaphysical or academic" and 90% of the search results are either essays on teen pregnancy, abortion, or pagan fertility rituals. ugh! i just want some good essays on the spirituality of pregnancy. i even searched for "pregnancy as liminal state" and all i got were anthropological studies on indigenous tribes and rites of passage. i want to discuss the state of pregnancy as a strange existence in a limbo between worlds... i am so much more open and sensitive (and i am usually pretty open and sensitive) and i need stimulation to explore it more deeply.

but anyway, i have found a nice little treasure-trove of articles from Compleat Mother magazine which i have been enjoying. i've also come across some insightful father-oriented pieces. i think i will just link them here instead of talking about them like i was planning to. but at the end i do want to discuss circumcision, for the record.

thoughts on induction

why men leave

getting fathers involved in pregnancy

love in the garden (husband as gardener--really sweet)

our children's needs

learning through compassion

truth about antenatal testing (by a med student)

righteous anger part 1

righteous anger part 2

trial by fire (really well written birth story with afterthoughts)

ok... i just spent a lot of time doing that and now i have lost interest in finishing this post. circumcision discussion to come later. (mood swing, i feel like crap and i think i am going to cry over something really stupid. damnit!)