This spring, NPR posted a call for pregnant women who were due in July to participate in “The Baby Project,” a special series documenting their last month of pregnancy. Though I'm not due until August, I still applied. Sadly, like our bid to be contestants on The Amazing Race, I was rejected.But that hasn't stopped me from enjoying the daily posts. Ultimately, the blog follows 9 women, and as different as their stories and backgrounds are — geographically, economically, ethnically and otherwise — their hopes and fears are fundamentally the same.
A few favorites include an overview of a doula's role in birth and expectant mom Lateefah Torrence's musings about a busy mind and labor fears - after reading the latter, I felt like calling her up and inviting her to drink raspberry tea. (Why raspberry tea, you ask? While that's a topic for another day...)
So if you are stuck at work and need a break, or just want to feel the warm fuzzies, check it out.
