Category Archives: New Baby
The Juggle Ramps Up Anxiety for Working Mothers
A couple of weeks ago psychologist Alison Gopnik wrote a widely read editorial in The New York Times about how babies learn. Her conclusion wasn’t earth-shattering — in fact many of us knew this already — we don’t need fancy … Continue reading
The Myth of the Judging Mommy
Add to the things I have to be thankful for: I’ve never had a playdate like the ones Emily Bazelon describes in her recent Double X post Defending the Playdate. Reading the piece, I wonder — is this really the … Continue reading
Are Working Parents Giving Their Children as Many Cuddles as Stay-at-Home Parents?
Over the weekend Lisa Belkin’s Motherlode column sparked another round of so-called “mommy wars.” The post discussed a recent study from the Australian Institute of Family Studies indicating that the children of working mothers receive just as much “cuddle time” … Continue reading
Filed under Breastfeeding and Pumping, Childcare, Happiness, New Baby, News
Thinking Beyond The Infant Years
Lisa Belkin at The New York Times‘ Motherlode recently posted this letter from a reader named Anna asking whether she should quit working to stay home with her three-month old daughter. Anna writes: I returned to work last week, and … Continue reading
Five Ways Your Sitter Can Make Your Life Easier
For a lot of us who aren’t used to having employees in our homes, expressing our needs and expectations to a sitter is more difficult that the same task in the office. I hired our first nanny when Baby Bee … Continue reading
More on Jill Lepore’s Pumping Article
Hurrah to Christen Clifford for her Huffington Post piece on Jill Lepore’s pumping article in The New Yorker. With a few weeks distance on the article, I’ve been thinking that Lepore’s insinuation that pumping deprives babies of the real … Continue reading
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The Ultimate Showdown: Nanny Versus Daycare
After spending his first year one on one with a nanny in our home, Baby Bee switched to full-time daycare at 12 months. (The center calls itself an “early childhood education program,” but it’s really just high quality daycare.) Since our current … Continue reading
Filed under Childcare, New Baby, Work, Working Mom Blogs
Jill Lepore on Breastpumps in The New Yorker
Thank you, Kate Harding , for your response in Salon to Jill Lepore’s January 12th New Yorker article about breastfeeding and pumping. As someone who breastfed for 17 months and pumped for nearly a year after going back to work, I too … Continue reading
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Resisting the Siren Call of the Cupcake
Women, resist the siren call of the cupcake!, an editorial in Saturday’s Times of London Online takes a relatively hardline position on working mothers using the story of Rachida Dati, the French Justice Minister who returned to work five days after … Continue reading
Filed under Famous Working Mothers, New Baby, Work
