tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839129284985526376.post-33271272415623197862008-05-23T22:28:00.000-07:002008-05-23T22:28:00.000-07:00The only time I "nested" was when I felt I was going to have a nervous breakdown from all the anxiety. Yeah, I cleaned everything.... Also, I totally hear you on feeling like you don't belong. I'm a straight, married, white woman and I felt alienated from other pregnant women. In fact, I avoided them and their anti-anything that would allow a woman to have a baby and a career rhetoric like the plague. Pre-natal Yoga? Fuck that shit. We did our birthing class on-line. Things like yoga and all the "natural" birthing stuff--on the surface it appears to be woman-friendly, but it's often not. A lot of it is guilt-inducing, ideological, and reactionary. Pre-eclampsia is "natural," bacterial meningitis is "natural." What's not "natural" is that my daughter and I are both still alive. I couldn't believe it when I got shit from my midwife for not wanting to continue breast feeding while my 4 lb daughter was lying in a hospital isolette severely ill and I was borderline suicidal from the PPD.Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14928617002337445017noreply@blogger.com