Tara is visiting her ailing Aunt for a few days so I find myself this morning having enough  time to blog.  I just posted a comment on Daily Babblle which is talking today about paternity leave.
Here it is:

Most men do not take paternity leave in the US because of two underlying reasons. First the entire society is still built upon an organization of work that is based upon the old manufacturing model. This is finally beginning to transform as knowledge workers become the norm, and as women enter the …

I am in the process of reading the Daddy Shift – which so far has been a really excellent read.

The book explores what it means to be a father today, and in the process discusses how many dad’s today do not  use their own fathers as role models.  This being, in part, because many of the fathers of our generation were absent much of the time, both literally — working long hours — and emotionally
It made me sit and reflect a bit, about my own father and the memories I …

On Saturday our homebirth education class gathered for a reunion in  Prospect Park.  In place of a bunch of pregnant couples sitting in a circle, you now had a bunch of new parents, with infants on their laps.  It was quite a scene.
Almost everyone showed up to sit beneath a large tree by the baseball field, including our instructor Natashia Fuksman, to visit and share our experiences.

We exchanged our birth stories over chips and bagels.  It was totally informal.
Listening to each couple’s story, it was amazing just how different each …

Sunday was Mother’s Day, Tara’s first.  It certainly gives you a different perspective on the holiday when you are celebrating it not as a child of your own mom, but as a partner to the person who gave birth to your child.  As much as I thought mother’s day was a holiday about the relationship between mother and child, at this point in my lifecycle it means much more than this.
While I certainly love my mom very much, at the moment, it is all about Tara.  Having a baby is …