An excerpt taken from an article on BBC. “In valleys and villages across Badakshan, a province located in the Hindu Kush mountain range, such stories are common. Maternal mortality, when a woman dies during or shortly after pregnancy, is believed to be the highest in the world here. According to statistics published by the UN in 2002, the province had the highest rate of mortal maternity ever recorded. For almost 16 babies born, one woman…
Tonight on BBC America I just happened to catch part of a program that dealt with women who care for life like babies. Talk about strange…. These babies look so life like it’s amazing. I watched a program long ago about men who buy life-like dolls of women and that was pretty understandable to me, but this just seems to be too sad and strange. One woman they showed was in a store buying Roberto…
I have so much I want to talk about. I think day and night about all the topics I could cover. It drives me crazy. I don’t have many people to discuss things with these days.. and unfortunately my small family outside of my husband and child is very broken. Motherhood has really opened up my eyes to a lot of things and I’ve realized now that I have my son.. if we were the…
I’ve thought of many ways to start this new blog over the past few weeks, when today I came upon a touching story on cnn I knew I found my first topic. You can read the story here: Prom king with Down syndrome goes to college. When I was born my mother was only 19 years old and single. Being so young, it was difficult for her. For many years off and on I lived…
