planned parenthood tax deduction

Seriously?

Read here.

There really are no words for this.  You can get a tax write-off for monies given for abortion.  I mean, come on!  This is what really irks me.  It is one thing about the moral argument, etc...

Right now on their website it says, "The exam room is no place to play political games" referring to a decision by Bush Planned Parenthood is attacking.  The usual spinning of things.

Does anyone out there even  for a nano-second stop to think of the unborn fetus and what is REALLY taking place in those exam rooms?

Adoption is such a better alternative.  Congrats to Joy and Chris who just adopted their first child, a girl, and an even bigger congrats to their birth parents who did the RIGHT thing. 

liquid gold

Well finally!  I haven't really gone into detail here about the struggles of nursing my son.  Suffice it to say that we brought little L home, and I fully expected to regain back the time we lost in the NICU AND him latch perfectly.  Wrong.  L would not latch and was not interested.  By this point, two weeks post partum, I had already become a pumping mommy.  I knew nothing about pumping, but I learned fast that you have to pump every 2-3 hours in the beginning (just as a baby will nurse).  I was producing a TON of milk.  I froze every drop we didn't use in a freezer in the garage.  

The journey we went on included many visits to a wonderful lactation consultant named Jane Kershaw at Centennial Hospital and also persistence.  Every time I would go see Jane, I would find some hope though L would scream and cry and want nothing to do with the breast.  Can't blame the little guy!  Every time I would ask Jane, "How much longer do you think it'll take?"  I would constantly imagine quitting.  I would set goals that would be another week, month... even so low I would think... just one more day.  I have to add though, the hormones really heightened everything because in hindsight, formula would have been fine as well.  (I was formula fed!)  I think part of my worry was that L could be our only child.  I wanted to experience nursing if possible.

L finally latched just at 4 months old.  I learned how to stop logging every mL produced, and I stopped pumping more than 2 times a day.  I'm still having to do a little, but it does allow me to have a freezer stash.  I am thinking right now I have about 320 ounces or so.  

I am happy to say that all of that pumping and pain of not sleeping trying to latch him, etc... has an even better ending.  Not only has he latched a little over a month ago, but I have found an adoptive mother who relactated for her new son and is still only making a third to half of his daily needs.  I am donating all that milk which represents a lot of dedication and hope to them this week.  I'm so glad about it!  I do know he is a Vietnamese baby, and I hope the liquid gold fares him well!