Comments on Hobocamp: babymamababy

Nice Blog Very handy.

2010-05-09T00:17:29.368-05:00

Nice Blog Very handy.

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Loved your post. It made me cry. My heart aches ...

2010-03-07T16:06:42.957-06:00

Loved your post. It made me cry.

My heart aches for social justice in the world and this is how we little people make it happen. Thanks for being the change that you want to see in the world.

I have to admit: I've been lurking on your blo...

2010-03-03T17:37:09.156-06:00

I have to admit: I've been lurking on your blog for a while! Most of the time you crack me up with your crazy antics, but this post made me cry. Those little moments may be some of the most important moments in someone else's life ever.

Absolutely lovely. You are amazing. Kate x

2010-02-25T13:35:49.528-06:00

Absolutely lovely.
You are amazing.

Kate x

Thank you. As a midwife in a clinic filled with c...

2010-02-19T10:31:37.874-06:00

Thank you. As a midwife in a clinic filled with child-women, thank you. Please come to work in my NICU.

I'm all weepy and misty reading this post. Yo...

2010-02-18T16:27:35.774-06:00

I'm all weepy and misty reading this post. You are SUCH a beautiful person, both inside and out. If you were a fudgesicle I'd eat you all up. Wait, that didn't sound creepy, right?

-ForeverAnon

Usually I come here for fun because you crack me u...

2010-02-18T13:38:54.447-06:00

Usually I come here for fun because you crack me up without a doubt. This post was beautifully written and I'm glad that you were there for these moms.

yeah my eyes might have broken out a lil sweat reading this post but then i just go back to your boob drawing =)

You've got a good heart, doc. Keep it and emb...

2010-02-15T18:52:46.489-06:00

You've got a good heart, doc. Keep it and embrace its vulnerabilities - you'll work miracles in peoples' lives.

'They Say' if you light just one little ca...

2010-02-14T19:16:35.750-06:00

'They Say' if you light just one little candle you can make a difference in your corner of the world. Gal, you light up the entire sky for these folks and touch their lives for days and months and years to come.

Thank you.

seticat [a retired respiratory therapist and RN]

Thank you for saying this. In fact, thank you for...

2010-02-14T15:39:08.701-06:00

Thank you for saying this. In fact, thank you for taking care of young mothers like a society is SUPPOSED to do, so that they will learn how to be good mothers. You have probably saved lives with that little speech as much as with your handling of unhealthy baby lungs.

I just started blogging a few months ago and am in...

2010-02-14T13:35:47.873-06:00

I just started blogging a few months ago and am inspired by your blog. The fact that you even have the time to do it amazes me!
I enjoyed reading your work and I to, was raised by a single mom:-)

Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous post.

2010-02-13T09:01:37.054-06:00

Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous post.

I've been following you for years (scary) and ...

2010-02-11T19:39:48.130-06:00

I've been following you for years (scary) and loved all your work: this is by far my favourite. Thought provoking and slightly shaming that I too have fallen in to that judgemental category... This will stay with me for a long time.

Thank you thank you for this. My mother raised my ...

2010-02-11T19:19:28.701-06:00

Thank you thank you for this. My mother raised my sister and me on her own, and I think I turned out okay too :-) She is a nurse just like you. I'm now 30 and married, and expecting my first child. I'm kind of scared too, about so many things, so I can't imagine what a teen would be facing. I hope I'm half the mom my mother was :-)

Honesty is tied with love for the best gift one pe...

2010-02-11T17:54:10.500-06:00

Honesty is tied with love for the best gift one person can give to another. Both of yours shine through. I wish with all my heart that there were more like you. The world would be a much better place. Thank you for sharing your stories, I needed a good eye-wetting.

I was crying by the time I finished this, and I ha...

2010-02-11T17:16:42.070-06:00

I was crying by the time I finished this, and I had to take a break before I could post. My mom was an L&D nurse. I remember when she came home one day when I was in high school, absolutely livid at a woman who brought her teenage daughter (who was in labor) and the daughter's teenage girl friend to the hospital, dropped them both off at the front door, and left. This woman

I also came from Mental Floss. Reading your post (...

2010-02-11T16:46:59.434-06:00

I also came from Mental Floss. Reading your post (and all the comments) definitely made me cry (and forget about dinner on the stove... whoops).

I had my son at 19. He was born prematurely and we spent 13 days in the hospital. These were the worst 13 days of my life, as not only was I a single mother with a sick child, but the nurses were mean to me. Just plain mean, condescending,

New blog follower based on this blog, So honest, s...

2010-02-11T16:42:29.464-06:00

New blog follower based on this blog, So honest, so empathetic, and so awesome. Thank you for being the person that these moms and babies need to right their brains into working better for themselves and their children.

Sent by Morch:)
Danielle,, who rambles too!

I was raised by a single (and young) mom and she w...

2010-02-11T16:37:05.108-06:00

I was raised by a single (and young) mom and she wasn't always the best mom, but she tried, you know? She did her best and we both turned out pretty okay. I love her more than anything and I'm proud of her. This post made me cry.

I have friends who had a baby at 12... at 16... at...

2010-02-11T16:02:24.302-06:00

I have friends who had a baby at 12... at 16... at 18...

And the attitude of the mother towards it makes all of the difference in the world. Their age has nothing to do with it. My friend who had her first at 12 never missed school, did NOT give up her daughter, graduated High School fine, went on to get further education and now has two more children... all beautiful and well behaved.

If I had worked with more nurses like you, maybe I...

2010-02-11T15:37:24.036-06:00

If I had worked with more nurses like you, maybe I wouldn't have left NICU for L&D. ;)

My coworkers marvel at the compassion I extend to drug moms, teen moms, homeless moms, and the like. I tell them all the same thing: it's my job to be a nurse and to care for them, not to judge them.

Teen moms get the crap kicked out of them by life; they don't need to

Meg! You made MentalFloss.com! It's one of m...

2010-02-11T15:20:26.558-06:00

Meg! You made MentalFloss.com! It's one of my favorite timekillers, and I saw the URL and was all "Hey I know that link!"

Congrats and thank you for a great post.

Hello. That was beautiful. My mum was a nurse and ...

2010-02-11T15:18:59.924-06:00

Hello. That was beautiful. My mum was a nurse and raised my brother and I pretty much by herself, through a lot of moves and hard nights and personal loneliness. My wife gave birth to her first child 12 years ago when she was 18, seemingly always at war with a wealthy but dysfunctional family, and saddled with a loser douchebag chickenhawk of an ex who continues to mooch off her family to this

Mental Floss sent me here to read this post, which...

2010-02-11T14:59:14.530-06:00

Mental Floss sent me here to read this post, which I loved, and then I got lost in your archives for several hours. I'll be back, lurking away, laughing my ass off most of the time and now and then getting a look at a world completely outside my own.