Searching for posts for a blog roundup found me a very interesting 90% pro-life atheist’s perspective of abortion. Jeremy opposes abortion except for “hard cases”, and ponders briefly what the numbers are.
This Guttmacher Institute report notes the reasons women gave for undergoing abortions. The women could check multiple reasons, so the totals add up [...]

I believe that all children come from God. My husband’s mother had her first at age 22 and her tenth at 45.
She does admit that it was a lot harder when she was older taking care of a baby. However, she had many older children who were able to help out.

Life Begins… – Miscarriage stories [...]

Abortion in the 1960s: My focus is on mortality. Abortion deaths fell steadily from 1961 to 1968 — when the first states started loosening abortion laws. Then there was a slight uptick, and the fall resumed.
Dr. Enrique Pinkusiewicz: Worked at Aaron Women’s Health Center in Texas; was sued for aborting a healthy fetus after a [...]

I don’t know the statistics, but I suspect there must be a significant trend towards older parents. I bet that 50 year old mothers of small children is not as rare as it once was.
Most of my peers are just starting to have kids now in their mid-30s, whereas when my parents married in 1970 [...]

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I know this has been on lots of birth blogs but just in case you missed it, I thought I would share and ask you to start thinking of strategies to deal with the reactions to a lot of the stuff that’s out there!

My mother had me at 45.

Life Begins… – Miscarriage stories of loss, hope & helpStories of Pregnancy over 44 years old – sharing stories I find online, for inspiration!You Can Get Pregnant in Your 40’s – Sharing articles, discussing options & suggestions
Recent Keyword Searches: first pregnancy at 46, Women who are pregnant at 50, i’m [...]

Cole surprised us this week with a steal of a deal on the old model of i-phone, and so for the first time in forever I have a very handy camera on me at all times. This first picture of LB all sick and puny trying to keep down a banana was taken by Cole. [...]

I’ve said before — as in this post from 2005 — what it is I’m trying to accomplish with prochoicers who visit this blog. And it’s not to convince them to convert:
I’m not speaking to the 16% who are “consistently pro-choice.” They’re pretty much settled in their opinions and not likely to change unless something [...]

I don’t like using my blog this way, but it is build up week to get this album finished and all shiny and ready to launch, and I have some loose ends. I am what they call obsessed right now about getting this thing done and put together just right so that it has the [...]