Tag: motherhood

• A Childless Motherhood

  Well of course! Did we think there would be no consequences? Did we actually think we could get away with it? That there weren’t two sides to the story that we all needed to hear? Sometimes I think we are so focused on our journey to right a wrong, that we wander off the path…

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  September 18, 2018

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  Canada, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, CBC radio, child apprehension, Elizabeth Wall-Wieler, First Nations, foster care, Jane Philpott, Kahlil Gibran, mental health, Minister of Indigenous Services, mother-child bond, motherhood, suicide, The Conversation, University of Manitoba

• The Venus Figurine

  Pregnancy has always had a sacred place in mythology. From the Palaeolithic Venus figurines, to the various stories of deities born from virgins, pregnancy has been cloaked in mystery and draped in awe –the curious interregnum separating being from non-being. That special state when the woman is suddenly not alone in her body, and then,…

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  January 17, 2018

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  African proverb, Angela Saini, crying babies, maternal instinct, motherhood, mothers, mythology, obstetrician, post-partum check, pregnancy, The Guardian newspaper, venus figurines

• Eternal Maternal?

  Some things are just not said, just not considered. They fall so far outside of our Weltanschauung they are inadmissible. And we take such comfort in their ubiquity that we no longer feel a need to discuss them. They are so self-evidently true, so axiomatic to our understanding of existence that they seem indispensable. Crucial……

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  October 25, 2017

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  altruism, Angela Saini, babies, community support, cultural assumptions, cultural norms, evolution, Guardian newspaper, instinct, love, maternal bonds, maternal instinct, maternal support, motherhood, mothers, musingsonwomenshealth.com, sacrosanct, survival benefits