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		<title>Crisis or calling?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when I am learning who my friends are … or rather who my friends aren’t … I am learning other lessons that I would rather not and more and more I am becoming disillusioned with life’s textbook. In the process of discovering the extent that social norms dictate the opinions of others [...]


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		<title>Full disclosure</title>
		<link>http://www.bhalababy.com/2010/08/17/full-disclosure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I started this blog when I had a baby was because I was amazed at how mothers gossip about each other. Everyone has an opinion on how other mothers are coping, whether they have PND, what they feed their babies, when they wean them, how their mothering effects their child’s behaviour, [...]


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		<title>Pandy’s box?</title>
		<link>http://www.bhalababy.com/2010/07/28/pandy%e2%80%99s-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have taken the below passage out of my latest book club read, Mitch Albom’s, tuesdays with Morrie: “I’ve learned this much about marriage,” he said now. “You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how to accommodate or don’t.” Is there some kind of rule to know [...]


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		<title>Old habits die hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You&#8217;re not grumpy about me, you&#8217;re grumpy about your car,&#8221; he stated when I was short with him moments after failing to push-start my car down the hill, having to abandon it at the bottom of the neighbourhood. I had searched everywhere for my car key so I could get him to school and discovered [...]


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		<title>Forking off</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother asked me what my next move would be. She was referring to the next step in the process of taking myself and my child through a divorce after my husband’s decision to fight for our marriage was followed swiftly by amnesia. “To go for a run,” I replied. On the brink of something [...]


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		<title>We&#8217;re back</title>
		<link>http://www.bhalababy.com/2010/06/18/were-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been back for over two weeks already … although I can’t say ‘back home’ as the term ‘home’ requires a fair amount of redefining right now. The old adage, ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’ does not ring true in my case. Less hostile perhaps but not fonder. What absence has done, however, is [...]


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		<title>A Magic Carpet Ride</title>
		<link>http://www.bhalababy.com/2010/05/28/a-magic-carpet-ride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 17:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>One knot in a hand-tied carpet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 14:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a loose thread that still connects me to our first night in Bangalore when, lying restless below the air-conditioning unit, my eyes snapped open and I said, &#8220;What the f*ck are you doing here?&#8221; I was addressing myself of course. But myself didn&#8217;t have an answer, only a whimper and a mantra to [...]


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		<title>It&#8217;s a jungle out there &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 08:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could feel eyes boring into me. There was nowhere to hide. I looked down at my lap where I was holding onto Nic&#8217;s head, keeping him out of sight, out of harm&#8217;s way and trying to ignore the attention. But, as it began to get dark and we were still stuck at the station, [...]


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		<title>If you can&#8217;t see them, are they still there?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 09:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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