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Friday Finds: Screen time, abortion, death doulas, and more!

All I can think about is the election. If you haven’t voted already, drop your absentee ballot off or vote in person! Please vote for kindness, progress, and love. And no matter what happens next week, there’s still tons of work to be done.

 
 
  • I’ve been to Merida, Mexico probably a dozen times, and seeing this home took me right back

  • Intimate friendships don’t come with shared social scripts that lay out what they should look like or how they should progress.”

  • Natural newborn essentials - on a budget!

  • “People say an experience like this creates a hole in your heart. A hole was certainly made, but it was filled with the love of something I loved so much. It doesn’t feel empty, this space. It feels full.

  • How does your family navigate screen time? (read the comments)

  • “They’ll play Stevie Wonder — ‘I’ll be loving you always’ — and everyone will eat a lot of food and drink whiskey and mezcal and red wine. There will be colorful Gerber daisies everywhere, and they’ll take me away as the sun goes down.”

  • Diversifying abortion stories

  • The forgotten suffragettes

  • “Does this look like an appropriate father/son interaction to you?”

Did you see Gina’s latest blog post about how she’s prepping for her postpartum time? It features some tasty-looking recipes!

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