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A Birth Story

March 5, 2014July 2, 2015 by koji

I generally pride myself on having very few concrete expectations, but for some reason my expectations about birth were different. They actually existed. The crunchy-granola hippie took over and I imagined that I would have…

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Dog Training

February 14, 2014July 2, 2015 by koji

I always say that I want a dog. They are so cute and friendly and fun. But honestly, I know that they are too much work and dedication for me. Some people work well with…

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Drug addiction, death, and celebrity

February 8, 2014July 2, 2015 by koji

For the past week my news feed and facebook has been littered with little snippets regarding the death of an actor, Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I want to start by saying I didn’t know the man.…

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I feel…

February 3, 2014July 2, 2015 by koji

The last few weeks of pregnancy just creep by. Although some of it is nerves- anxiety and excitement about meeting the little person who has been growing inside of me- a lot of it is…

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Ethical Representation of … Burning Man?

January 31, 2014July 2, 2015 by koji

I am thinking about representation these days. Last year I took a very powerful course on the Ethics of Representation in Anthropology. It used a historical approach to outline how the white, male anthropologist was…

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Children as a confusing social… thing

January 25, 2014July 2, 2015 by koji

Strangely enough in all of my studies in family development and sociology I never focused on how children are viewed by different social groups or children’s rights. I focused on marriage and alternative adult relationships.…

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Pregnant Lady Checkout Line

January 21, 2014July 2, 2015 by koji

Two of the stores I frequent in Bulgaria have very cool checkout lines, in theory. The first store has a line specifically for people who have small children and are not purchasing candy, cola, or…

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The Pre-pregnancy Body

January 16, 2014July 2, 2015 by koji

I was watching the L-word the other night and one of the characters slipped in an off-handed comment that she was, “still working to get her pre-pregnancy body back.” Just that, nothing more. Five years…

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Doulas and painting and salsa, oh my…

January 7, 2014July 2, 2015 by koji

We met with a potential doula today. I am still not 100% sold on the idea of a doula simply because it is another expense added to an already expensive process. However, I was absolutely…

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Pain Management

January 1, 2014July 2, 2015 by koji

It seems like the biggest debate in birth these days is pain management. It is an obsession. I guess now that we have the option of drugging the pain away we are suddenly faced with…

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