The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

I’m celebrating one of those uncomfortable anniversaries. My mother died on March 2. Some years I’ve been so involved with my family that I didn’t recognize the anniversary. As I grew older and developed more self-awareness, I would notice a few days after the anniversary. My conscious awareness usually followed a subconscious awareness. I would […]

Sarong, spelled with an ‘o’ is what the westerners refer to when talking about the piece of garment most Asians wear as skirts. Growing up, I have always referred to it as kain batik (worn by the women) and kain pelikat (worn by the men). Wearing a kain batik is also considered an artform that […]

Today, statistics and breastfeeding analyses tell us that mothers who breastfeed typically have higher levels of education and live in households with greater incomes than mothers who are poor and have little education. In fact, poor, young, rural, and lesser educated women breastfeed in the lowest percentages in our nation.
However, mothers of all income levels […]

I have just been looking at the TV show, Maury Povich.
It is the one where they try to find out who is the babies father.
Although I think that this program could not be for real and I guess that I am old fashioned, being an older person, but I just don’t understand how any girl […]

One thing I have discovered while going through old photographs is that although infant feeding has changed drastically since the Depression and War era, one thing has remained constant: motherhood. Mothers are a special breed on Earth; we love our children unconditionally and make the best of all situations to ensure our children’s lives remain […]

For every fifty bottle-feeding photographs I come across, I run into about -3 breastfeeding photos; they’re really that rare. But on occasion I do stumble upon photos that catch my attention, but I cannot tell whether a mother is actually breastfeeding or not. So, I am enlisting you to help me with a little detective […]

I am an avid proponent of looking to history to help us evaluate our past mistakes, celebrate our collective accomplishments, and glean insight into the trends of our current culture. That said, I am quite honored to be guest blogging at MotherVerse for the next couple of weeks to share historic photographs of American infant […]