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October 24 & 25 (fun and/or scary) 6-8pm
October 26 (fun area only) 5-7pm
$5 per person of any age - $4 for [...]

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Guys, I’m in the home stretch here. 35 weeks. I’m, um, large. And I’m slacking on the TM posts, I realize. There is good stuff going on this weekend, including Tucson Eat Yourself and the Club Crawl, but damn if the f/t job, verbacious, clingy toddler, and ridiculous 3rd tri insomnia aren’t kicking my ass. [...]

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I’ve written before about my intense passion for ice when pregnant. It happened when pregnant with Lincoln, and it’s happening this time too.
It’s partially just loving the ice when I’m chewing it, but also feeling near panic when I can’t have ice and I want it. It’s the closest thing to the pickles-n-ice cream cliche [...]

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I went to see “The Business of Being Born” on Sunday at UMC.
It was a surprisingly full house. I expected that the movie would elicit a strong reaction from me–though I wasn’t sure of what nature. What I wasn’t prepared for was the feel of the crowd.
At first I was so excited to see the [...]

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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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According to an article in today’s Star, we’ll get the chance to see an advance screening of “The Business of Being Born”, a documentary on birthing in America. January 19th, 2pm, DuVal auditorium at UMC. Definitely looking forward to this. Birthing is such a loaded topic–c-sections, VBACs, choices about induction and pain relief, just for [...]

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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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Some good friends of ours are due with their first baby, um, tomorrow. Which means within a week the baby will be here. We’re trying to come up with a list of things we wish someone told us about labor, delivery, and the “fourth trimester”, as it’s sometimes called. Even for those of us in [...]

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