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	<title>It's a Girl</title>
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		<title>the birth experience, round two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our second daughter&#8217;s due date was Tuesday, January 17. Naturally, she didn&#8217;t decide to show up that day, which was perfectly fine with me, since I wasn&#8217;t quite ready for her yet. But by Thursday — my last peaceful day of just hanging around the house with Delphine, making pancakes and having a luxuriously long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fourth — and fifth? — time&#8217;s the charm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in September, I posted about our long journey down the byzantine pathways of obstetric care in America today. At that point, we had already received prenatal care for my second pregnancy from two different providers. We had also interviewed two other providers, and were searching for a fifth. We were no longer the naïve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tucker-raymond.net/itsagirl/fourth-and-fifth-times-the-charm/</link>
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		<title>and baby makes four</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are expecting the arrival of a second daughter any day now. (The due date is January 17, for what that&#8217;s worth.) Delphine likes to talk about babies, and pretend to listen to the baby&#8217;s heartbeat with her toy stethoscope. (She thinks, in fact, that everybody in our house is currently pregnant, including the cat, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>that vision thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just over a year ago, Delphine started therapy for developmental delays. She has since seen a physical therapist, a speech therapist, and a rotating cast of occupational therapists, plus two different caseworkers through the county school district. Now she&#8217;s in part-time preschool, which constitutes therapy of a more social sort. As her parents, we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bad mom days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some days are what one of our neighbors, a fellow mom of small children, calls &#8220;bad mom days.&#8221; I like this phrase because it&#8217;s so ambiguous: is the day itself bad, or the mom, or both? Whenever a bad mom day happens — not so frequently as Caleb fears, but more often than I&#8217;d like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>thinking outside the box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My father likes to tell a story about my two-year-old self. We were in the waiting room at the Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia; I had been born there, and now we were waiting to meet my newborn baby sister. The waiting area had a pile of alphabet blocks — ah, the pre-swine flu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cool people don&#8217;t have kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Portland&#8217;s alt-weekly, Willamette Week, does what alt-weeklies do everywhere: local political news, club listings, movie reviews, and sex ads. The target audience, of course, is the twentysomething crowd that likes to eat, drink, smoke, go out late at night, get wasted, and have tragically complicated sex lives. (Some of us have been there, and some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tucker-raymond.net/itsagirl/cool-people-dont-have-kids/</link>
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		<title>change is in the air</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not one of those moms who devotes hours of her limited free time to mommy message boards, agitating for social change via pixels. (Who are those moms, anyways? How do they possibly have so much free time on their hands?) But a throwaway bit of fluff in the New York Times earlier this summer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tucker-raymond.net/itsagirl/diaper-changing/</link>
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		<title>the non-tiger mother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good friend from college has a little boy about a year younger than Delphine, and we email back and forth frequently, sharing what we&#8217;re learning about parenting. Recently our discussion veered around to parental expectation and how we&#8217;re learning — oh, so quickly — that very little of what we think will happen with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tucker-raymond.net/itsagirl/the-non-tiger-mother/</link>
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		<title>mommy and me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the other day, while Delphine watched her allotted daily half-hour of Elmo before her nap, I piled the laundry on the bed next to her and began to fold it. After about 10 minutes, as I chatted more and more with Delphine about the show, I realized I was folding more and more slowly, [...]]]></description>
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