alexist

"I've lost my kid because I'm an alcoholic 'low income sex worker living an alternative family life'..." (inner quote is verbatim, alcoholic was elsewhere in the post)

And all I want to say is "Yes, and she's BETTER OFF with your ex!" (not so much because of the poly thing, but because she's an alcoholic sex worker).

kmelion gives you imamother, I give you the underbelly of mothering.com.

We also have the woman complaining about the difficulty of living off the grid, on welfare, in far northern Ontario. Partly because there's nothing to forage. Oh, and she's asking for help about her prolapsed uterus (which she wouldn't have had if she'd, like, gotten MEDICAL CARE for her last childbirth instead of DIY'ing). No mention is made of doctors. Scarily, the other freebirthers don't mention it either! (Remember, she's in Canada, they have Medicare.)

The other scary thing about MDC is that people will judge you for being "not AP enough" (where their definition of AP may have little or nothing to do with Dr Sears and far too much to do with loss of personal identity and living through one's offspring) but criticism for being TOO granola is thin on the ground. Even though I know (from snark threads elsewhere) that people do think it.

(Parts of MDC are useful. Parts are car crash, and you just have to read because, well, you do. Also, it makes you feel like a better person, much like watching How Clean Is Your House? makes one feel like a good housekeeper.)

I was supposed to go to something in Regents Park today, but I just didn't feel up to it. I didn't have the greatest night's sleep, and it's not helping.

Now I'm cooking various things for Aliza's meals. We're giving her bits off our plates as well if there's anything suitable (last night she had a bit of roast chicken, a piece of carrot, and a bit of my Yorkshire pudding--she liked the yorkshire once I tore off a suitably small piece!) but she also gets mushed up fruit & veggies that I cook separately so I don't have to worry about seasoning (and there are a couple of things, like apples, that I eat raw but she has cooked). Also, this way she gets a bigger variety. :)

We'll move up to more exciting things this week. New veggies! And maybe Oatibix. Anything (baby safe, so not sultanas etc!) I can add to oatibix with milk to make it more interesting? (I'm going to try oats before wheat, just because I'm paranoid.)