It’s a Mother of an evolution! Join us as we launch the first online community dedicated to women having children after 40—A CHILD AFTER 40. When you find yourself surrounded by young “yummy mummies” or Stepford moms under 35—in the prenatal clinic or on the playground—you’ve now got a place to hang your bell bottoms [...]
There’s nothing I can say that will materially add to the avalanche of accolades and condolences flooding the media on behalf of midlife mother Elizabeth Edwards, who died on December 7th at 61. But like many ordinary people, there is one thing I can do: put myself in her shoes. For more than a decade, [...]
When I started hanging out with baby Alex at the playground at 43, I remember thinking that—sometime during a surreal, Rip Van Winkle-style afternoon nap—I must have landed myself on the set of the 2004 film Stepford Wives. Being around tightly-knit groups of dewy-eyed younger mothers made me feel old and marginalized–an outcast from a [...]
If you gave birth after 40, there’s a good chance that, on your next outing, a random stranger will crack a crocodile smile at your toddler and ask: “So, are you having fun with grandma today?” While social protocol demands you keep your mouth shut in the face of this saccharine insult, a knee-jerk wave [...]
Constant speculation about the role egg donation might have played in Kelly Preston’s pregnancy gives new life to the old chestnut: Do real moms use donor eggs? It’s also given birth to an idea. I’ll be re-launching a special selection of Flower Power Mom’s blog article playlist from earlier this year, dealing with some of [...]
Every morning—now that I’m pushing past the threshold of midlife, as my 50th birthday looms—I carefully check for pernicious grey roots in the mirror, lest I get caught out by the swarming “yummy mummies” when I drop my 4-year-old off at preschool. I live a double life: in the privacy of my home office, the [...]
Four months ago, when I virtually knocked on the door of the “mommy blogosphere”, I did so with the blind ignorance of a new neighbor introducing herself with a plate of daintily presented bonbons. I was quick to learn that what lay behind it was more like a stadium full of adrenaline-pumped hockey moms in [...]
Gone are the days when a bread-earning husband could work a forty hour week, come home to a leisurely hot dinner, followed by warm slippers, a smoking pipe and time to dandle his kids on his knee. That was the Stay-At-Home-Mom (SAHM) package they sold you in the 1950s, wasn’t it? Even old June Cleaver [...]
They’re everywhere and I’m fed up with facing them. They gossip languorously in the parking lots of private schools, saunter through the mall pushing strollers that look as though they’ve just had a full detail at the local car wash, or hang out in the park, crisply dressed in the latest casual wear from INC. [...]
Angel on CNN
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Angel on CNN, Mother's Day story, May 8th 2011. (http://www NULL.youtube NULL.com/watch?v=WySnP2nnwXU)
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Read about Angel's CNN debate on Kelly Preston's pregancy.
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