But not in the way you would hope! I read this article and thought “hmmm, this sounds like it could be a birthsMART tm comic, so I made a couple!
Staff Training Reduces Postpartum Bleeding, Episiotomies

Love,
Heather

this musing is related to these two comics: birthsMART tm Cutting Edge! and birthsMART tm Hemorrhage!

This comic is related to these comics:birthsMART tm series

birthsMART tm Nurse: “Hi! Welcome back to birthsMART tm.”
birthsMART tm Nurse:”Where cutting edge is our middle name.”
birthsMART tm Nurse:”the doctors and nurses have been attending a continuing education program about episiotomies”
birthsMART tm Nurse:”We’ve learned that episiotomies are unnecessary and lead to deeper lesions and longer tears. The classes are teaching us not to cut.”
birthsMART tm Nurse:”And I’m happy to report that our episiotomy rate has gone from 81% to 52%! It’s just oe of the ways we’re cutting edge.

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This comic is related to this musing:co-sleeping!

Hathor: “Every evening ther gorilla mama climbs a tree and bends the branches to create a nest. Then she climbs in an sleeps the night away snuggling with her infant while high above the grou…”
other unseen person:”Sure, but still, co-sleeping is SO unsafe, I heard about a guy who…”
Hathor: “HEY! Don’t be coming in her with all that stupid ‘uncle so and so put a baby face-down on his beer belly while napping n his recliner’ nonsense and comparing it to co-sleeping. What are you a MORON?”
other unseen person: “Um, never mind.”

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She’s 11 and wow, that’s a big number as time marches on here in cowgoddess-ville. We had a birthday that was exactly as she wanted, the beach in the morning with her close friend (Gurumama’s 11 year old son) then a walk to her favorite fish taco restaurant, and then banana splits all around. All in all, a lovely day. And instead of crying myself to sleep I regaled her with the story of her birth, and she only faked non-interest, because she really can’t hear it enough;o)

AND, it’s come to my attention that wow, the Zines, Slings, and Other Do-It-Yourself Things book is selling really slowly. It could of course be our awful economy (what’s your excuse UK and Australia? heehee) But, a friend mentioned that it could be the title! Maybe my dear readers are unsure that the insides of this wonderful book are all that interesting?

so Here’s just a bit about the book:

You might not remember, but a long, long time ago I produced a series of Zines that were mailed quarterly to my dearest fans homes. These zines are reprinted in this book and include:

Then, as if that’s not enough ALL of the comics about Slinging and ALL of the comics about Do-it-Yourself. The MOST comics EVER of any Hathor book. Phew!

Buy it here:

and for those of you that have already read it, how about a book review?

Love,
Heather

This comic is related to this musing:co-sleeping!

Hathor: “You say in this article that “co-sleeping is the practice of sleeping in the same bed, couch or chair with an infant.”"
other unseen person:”yep.”
Hathor: ” I co-sleep and I’ve never heard such an expanded definition…”
other unseen person: “it’s all in the proximity.”
Hathor: “Would you call sharing a roller-coaster car co-sleeping?”
other unseen person: “If they slept during it, yes.”
Hathor: “What about bunjee-jumping is bunjee-jumping with an infant ever ‘co-sleeping’?”
other unseen person:”if they’re snoozing certainly”
Hathor: “So you’ve basically co-opted the word ‘co-sleeping’ to sell some kind of agenda?”
other unseen person: “Well, cribs, um…I mean agendas don’t sell themselves”
Hathor:”I suppose the first one to write the wikipedia entry wins”

co-sleeping is the practice of mothers sleeping beside their infants to facilitate breastfeeding.

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