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Lyn is "Mama" to Leigh (born 6/06, via Gail) and Ira (born 5/09, via Lyn) and wife to Gail. In addition to parenting, knitting, biking and ruminating on the ins and outs of two-mom parenting, she is a mathematician and neuroscientist.

Thanks for a good run.

by Lyn June 26, 2012

Gail and I have been writing here for about four years, and we’re ready to say goodbye. What we’ve thought about and written here has been absolutely formative for us, for how we understand each other as parents, our relationships with our kids, our place in the world as a queer family. We’ve found an [...]

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NGP Birth Story Round Up (finally)

by Lyn June 14, 2012

Many many months ago, inspired by this post at breaking into blossom, we placed a call for more birth stories from the perspective of the non-birthing parent and promised to write our own. The birth stories that resulted from that call (that we know of) were absolutely amazing. I hadn’t realized when we encouraged writing [...]

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Breathing Room

by Lyn March 12, 2012

Lately, a bit more space has opened up in our lives. It took us a little while to notice, but it’s definitely there. Leigh started kindergarten in the fall, which increased the logistical hurdles in our week (double drop off and double pick up). As of September, my job up and moved a two hour [...]

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Leigh’s birth, the NGP version, part II, The Hospital

by Lyn January 20, 2012

[Continued from Part I] Our midwife came to the hospital with us (she and I carrying about a thousand useless tote bags of utter crap), and advised us to let her do the talking about how Gail’s labor was progressing. We got the most amazing labor and delivery nurse ever in the whole wide world, [...]

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Leigh’s birth, the NGP version, part I, Labor at Home

by Lyn January 18, 2012

An introductory note: This story has been a long time coming. We weren’t writing here when Leigh was born five and a half years ago. But even when Ira was born and we’d been writing here for some time, we stopped short of a full birth story. This blog is quite public, and the experiences [...]

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Mom titles, the kindergarten edition

by Lyn January 6, 2012

Leigh started kindergarten this fall. She’s doing great and we are slowly adjusting to being parents of a “school-age” kid. Our district is extremely supportive of GLBT-headed families. They have a family-liason specifically for GLBT issues, who is a resource for teachers, students and families. We’ve always been certain that the school and the district [...]

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A call for birth stories from non-birthing parents

by Lyn December 19, 2011

If you haven’t already, go read this post at Breaking into Blossom. RLG does a very thoughtful analysis of how the ways in which we advocate for natural birth options can cause unintentional harm, to all parents, both those doing the birthing and not. She makes lots of smart points, but the theme that stands out [...]

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New site for aspiring queer parents

by Lyn November 27, 2011
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We were recently interviewed for a new-ish site, It’s Conceivable, that seeks to be a one-stop shop for good information on family building for queers. So far, it looks like they’re doing a great job, particularly at including information and stories from adoptive families, and dads, in addition to the usual glut of lesbian moms [...]

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How should straight parents explain queer families?

by Lyn November 17, 2011

It’s happened a few times lately, that upon finding out that I’m one of two moms in our family, I’m asked by another parent how to explain two-mom families to their kids (lately this has been in adult contexts, not with my kids in tow). Most recently, a dad I was talking to mentioned that [...]

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A weekend off

by Lyn October 18, 2011

When Leigh was a baby, I loved going out with her by myself. I’d take her to new parent groups or to run errands as the only mom in evidence. I loved the freedom and confidence I felt. I soaked up every last compliment about my fabulous baby, and every assumption that I was a [...]

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Surprising connections might not be so surprising

by Lyn October 3, 2011

As we’ve written about before, a big shift for our family over the last two years or so (about a year of that was thinking) has been connecting with families containing kids via the same donor as our kids. As Gail mentioned in her last post, when Leigh was a baby, we found out (though [...]

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