Shokufeh is... home

Getting children and getting exercise

If you're a mother parent, or considering becoming one, I highly recommend seeing The Business of Being Born. Really, I recommend it to anyone who has any interest in healthcare in America, and how messed up and expensive it is. The focus of the film is birthing, and it advocates for home birth, but I think it could apply to a variety of health events and conditions. I myself don't really want a home birth (is that a symptom of having drunk too much of the American health system koolaid?), but I wish that there were other feasible and widely-available options for giving birth without it becoming a huge medical production. Remember that post where I wrote about four of us having c-sections? Much of the discussion we had that night was addressed in the film. I think once it comes out on DVD, I'd like to have another viewing and discussion.

So, once you have a child...
Is it child abuse that I had MrMan walk through pretty much our entire visit to the zoo yesterday? It was quite the walk, covering much of the zoo (rhinos, giraffes, Jaguar Jungle, carousel, elephants). My thought was that if it was truly too much for him, he would plunk down or at least cry a little bit. But he did great. I rewarded him with carrying him from the elephants to the car (with a brief frolic in the bubbles at the gift shop), and free cheese cubes at Whole Foods. I think my mom isn't sure what to think that I had a two-year-old walk what was surely a mile, maybe more. Good thing it was a fun mile.