Daily Archives: January 27, 2006

On Average, You Would Sell Out For

$1,084,347

Via Activist Monkey, who is MUCH cheaper than I am.

Minneapolis is the #3 city in the country when it comes to having a baby, according to Fit Parenting (Portland and Boston are #1 and 2). Affordability is high, mortality and c-section rates are low, and breastfeeding statutes are progressive. The bad news: we have especially high hospital rates … so that will be something to look forward to. Anyway, go check out the site and see where your city ranks.

This post is about the best statement I’ve ever read as to why “mommy blogging” is important:

“… I started blogging partly out of a need to construct a new public identity for my self now that I was a mother. A blog can be like a mirror and I needed to see a reflection of a person I still recognized there after all the changes I’d been through. Because I wasn’t finding myself anywhere else. All the media representations of moms that I saw made us look like simpleminded, coupon-hoarding, minivan-driving, sexless, suburban freaks. Yet somehow I cherished a spark of hope that even if you were a white middle-class stroller pusher that didn’t mean that you were incapable of constructing a nuanced opinion on a topic focused beyond the confines of your own ass.”