{"id":427,"date":"2009-10-30T05:24:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebulous-oyster.flywheelsites.com\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2021-06-08T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T15:55:51","slug":"new-blog-at-motheringcom-mothering-outside-the-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennifermargulis.net\/new-blog-at-motheringcom-mothering-outside-the-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"New Blog at Mothering.com: Mothering Outside the Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MotheringI have been hired to write a blog for mothering.com, the Website for Mothering<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n

The blog is called “Mothering Outside the Lines.” The focus is pregnancy, birth, new baby care, and family life from an often political, activist-informed, natural health perspective.<\/p>\n

\"Mothering<\/p>\n

Updated to add:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wrote the Mothering Outside the Lines column for nearly two years, from October 2009 until Mothering magazine was sold to a company in Silicon Valley, began accepting advertising from mainstream companies, and ceased its print publication. I chronicled the unassisted birth of our fourth child and how it took me months to convince my husband we should have an unassisted birth. I also wrote about our lotus birth, infant pottying, and all things natural health. At the same time, I was a contributing editor at Mothering and wrote very long carefully researched articles about everything from vaccine safety to cloth diapering.<\/p>\n

After Mothering became web-only<\/a>, the magazine stopped supporting the values that made it so unique. It’s unfortunate that at mothering.com they are rarely, if ever, publishing articles about truly gentle parenting. When homebirth champion Peggy O’Mara was at its helm, the magazine was a pioneer publication in the fight for parents’ rights, alternative health, and intact babies.<\/p>\n

Now I often find mothering.com<\/a> to be disappointingly mainstream. Some of my most popular Mothering Outside the Lines blogs can still be found on the site, though many of the links are broken.<\/p>\n

Published: October 30, 2009
\nLast update: January 30, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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