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mama digs: We don’t dance in our potty.

By Nici Holt Cline

“We don’t dance in our potty.”

“Why, papa?! I dance in my potty right now!”

“Because. We don’t dance in our potty.”

I couldn’t help but laugh as I overheard this conversation between my husband and my two year-old. Margot had pulled her elmo panties to her ankles in our bedroom and peed. And then danced in the urine on the hardwood floor. In a place of annoyed disbelief, all Andy could say, repeatedly, like many times, was, “we don’t dance in our potty.”

As if we have a set of Cline Family Rules like we treat others with respect, we wear bike helmets, we brush our teeth before we go to bed and we don’t dance in our potty.

I had my own We Statement the other day.  I was in the kitchen, my back to my peaceful, happy children. My six month-old blissed out on the floor as her big sister read her books. And then, the heart-stopping scream. The kind of cry that was silent for the first few moments and then crescendoed in a fierce, terrifying wail. I asked Margot what happened. And she said, “I stomped on her face.” She said it as plainly as if she was saying, “I like orange shoes.” I was horrified that my sweet girl, the gentle soul who needs hugs with heartwarming regularity, did this. It was my first experience with intentional harm from one daughter to another and it broke my heart.
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mama digs: recover(ing)

By Nici Holt Cline

Last Wednesday night Ruby woke with a familiar cry. I didn’t know I remembered it until I heard it. She was distressed and uncomfortable. She was squirming and gasping. I stumbled from a deep sleep, begging the universe, shit NO.

Before I could find the light, I had begun counting her breaths. I could tell right away her respiratory rate was at least 75 breaths per minute. I was right. Andy and I stirred, dug for the thermometer, saline and bulb suction. 100 and then 101.7 a half hour later. Just like last time, she wouldn’t nurse. She was tired, didn’t open her eyes, laid like a beetle on her back in the hot sun.

I unzipped her soft, cotton pjs, separating the little pastel lambs that decorate the fabric and held her body to mine. I sat on my knees on my side of the bed in the middle of the night and I rhythmically rocked and hummed the mantra from my prenatal yoga class. She settled, her chest rising and falling too fast, the tiny holes in her nose encumbered, forcing her dry mouth open, her hot flesh reminding me. I didn’t want to be reminded. That it could happen again.

She’s bigger now. She stronger. She has more hair and it’s red. I wondered if the virus and two bacterias that imprisoned her last December had shoved flame into her hair. Or, if she had willed it to turn the color of her name to let us know she was going to survive. Ruby.
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savagemama: Something a little different

By Jennifer Savage

Every writer likes to play with form. I’m no different. Here’s a little something to switch it up a bit.

Before the snow disappeared that year,

bulldozers came. They made

flat and smooth

ditches, driveways, places where fence posts had been.

Seth took our babies for a drive,

got mired in the soft

and melting that is early spring.

I thought they were never

coming home,

but they did.

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Perinatal Mood Disorders Conference

Perinatal Mood Disorders Conference will be in Missoula on
April 14th & 15th, 2010
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This two-day conference is offered as a certification course for health-care professionals and is presented by Perinatal Support of Montana, which was founded by Lara Mattson Radle.  Click here to read Tyler Christensen’s  interview with Radle.

For more information on postpartum depression and how you can support mothers in our community, read Lara’s article on Mamalode.

A big thank you goes out to several folks who have made this conference possible….Community Medical Center, Missoula Adolescent Pregnancy Parenting and Preventative Services Coalition (MAPPPS), Montana Children’s Trust Fund, Missoula Forum for Children and Youth, Friends To Youth, Healthy Start, Public Health Department, Missoula Early Head Start and Birds & Bees.

Don’t forget: Our calendar is chock full of fun events around town. Check it out here.

Free Shipping Friday

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