Christina at Solomother has tagged me in the Ten Things That Happened to Me meme. Babylune is about recovering from child birth and I think I should stay on topic at least sometimes, so here are ten things that happened to me when I was trying to get pregnant, pregnant, giving birth or recovering from the experience.

Assisted reproduction helps nature along when the path to pregnancy seems anything but natural. It’s a world full of cutting-edge medical science, moral complexity and hope. According to the PBS Frontline program on Making Babies, the persistence of hope and rapid scientific change make for some very interesting lives.
Specialists in the field say that in as little as two decades, infertility may be a thing of the past.

Fertility news has been in the spotlight since a major European conference on the subject this month. Papers presented suggest that talk therapy and laughter therapy can both play a role in helping women conceive.
An article in the Irish Independent (free registration required, but worth the time) this week continues to explore how “alternative therapies” can be used to help treat infertility. The article looks at reflexology, nutrition, acupuncture, hypnotherapy and herbal remedies.
To sum up the article’s fingings:
Reflexology, a manual treatment that stimulates or relaxes pressure points in the feet, may help worried women relax. While stress impedes conception which …read more

One of the things I worried about before launching Babylune was the threat of criticism. In particular, I worried about being called selfish by insisting that mothers take the time to take care of themselves. The fact that I also acknowledge that we take care of everyone else, I believed, was sure to go unnoticed.

One of the reasons women have to take care of themselves, especially in the months after giving birth, is to protect their future fertility and the health of other children they may bear. Infection, anemia, and other threats to a woman’s health in the post partum …read more