This is something I wrote a couple months after our son was born. When I read it now, I can viscerally (and somewhat painfully) remember those early days and the intense feelings that ambushed me quite regularly. Everything felt so…serious. Now I am used to my connection to our son, and am comfortable with it, [...]

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A month or so ago we had a post about nurturing, and mentioned that we hoped that this site would be a place for discussion about ways that we take care of each other aside from being traditional mamas or dads.
On that note, we asked our great friend Amy (the person we had in mind [...]

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This is from last Sunday’s NY Times. It’s a good essay about infertility, loss,  and trying to build a family.
And did you catch Terry Gross’s interview with Peggy Orenstein last summer on “Fresh Air”? I finally listened to it, and it’s great. Not once during the interview did I want to punch anyone, which is rare [...]

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Calling this site “Tucson Mama” was a difficult decision. We didn’t want to exclude interest/readership/participation from people who are involved with nurturing kids, but aren’t themselves mothers. One of our most communicative readers is Jeff, a stay-at-home dad, and we’re hoping that he’ll write an essay about dads-as-primary-caretakers for us someday (not to put you [...]

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We don’t want to rely too heavily on links–we want you to find original content here. But there are a few items we want to share today.
It’s probably a little late to buy a Christmas gift from this site, but her jewelry is gorgeous, so we wanted to share. Her earrings and necklaces are [...]

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We hold ourselves to standards, often impossible to achieve, and when we come across Other Mothers, suddenly we feel as though we are failing.The most excellent El Con Target was the site of a recent encounter.  (And oh how I love you, my sleek and clean Target, how I want to buy entire outfits and [...]

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an essay on working and parenting, from Heidi, a twentysomething TucsonMama:
Compared to most of the college-educated mothers I know in Tucson, at age 25 I am considered young. Aside from the nervous glances I got at the OB’s office–even though I was 23 when I was pregnant I looked like I was 16–I don’t feel [...]

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We realize that not everyone decides to be a parent and gets pregnant and gives birth, quickly and in just that order. We are particularly partial to the experience of struggle on the road to parenthood, as we are no stranger to strife and loss around the TucsonMama homestead. We hope to provide discussion of [...]

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Sunday’s AZ Daily Star had an article about Vini Nunez, a stay-at-home dad–a rare species nationwide (fewer than 3% of stay-at-home parents nationwide are dads, according to the US Census Bureau). Nunez described his state of isolation, his desire to connect with other SAHDs, and acknowledged that sometimes he had to defend his family’s choices [...]

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