- Wondering why so long between posts?? The answer is simple: I have fallen prey to the Sookie Stackhouse books. Hook, line, and sinker. I’m on #9 and O-M-G, I am addicted. Highly recommended.

- We are moving in 18 days. Why is my house not more packed?! Honestly though, we’re moving less than a mile away. What is not in totes right now will likely be stuff (like the contents of the kitchen cupboards) that we’ll throw into laundry baskets and just relocate to its new cupboard at the house. And Marmot will be rolling the piano up the street, because even the thought of getting it into the back of the truck could give you a hernia.

- We’re getting a Trader Joe’s!!!! Its going to be built in the next couple months. All-access pita chips, hellooo!! And garlic cheese croutons. And Black Raspberry juice. And fruit crushers. And licorice scotty dogs. *drooling*

- Has anyone taken the GRE? I’m finishing my Bachelor’s right now (8 months and counting!) but do I need to finish that before I take it? A friend offered me the Kaplan study guides- good/bad/otherwise?

- My last post on mean mommies was awesome. It was so good to hear that I’m not the only one that sees the teeth coming out in the mommies out there.

- This week is going to be full of packing, reading, working, and enjoying the summer weather…and I need a new series once I finish the last Sookie Stackhouse book, any suggestions??

After a few months on the blogosphere, and as a Wanna-Be-Mommy, I’ve fallen in with the Mommy Blogger group. Its something I really enjoy, and I really feel as though I’ve learned a lot.

Now from my point of view, the overwhelming majority of the mothers I see on the blogosphere are what my family teasing calls ‘crunchy’. Breastfeeding, organic, cloth-diapering, natural birth, attachment parenting, homeschooling, babywearing, stay-at-home Mom’s. That niche is familiar to me, because I was raised that way- Queen B. fits that picture perfectly.What I can’t tell is if this is modern parenting right now…or if much like talk radio is the niche for conservative politics, blogging being the outlet for that niche?

Regardless, I enjoy the niche because its familiar to me. What does bother me is how the lines get drawn.

I’ve seen several new mothers in my circle of bloggers that have posted, apologetically and admitting guilt, about their transition to bottlefeeding when breastfeeding didn’t work out. And maybe its just me, but the silence is deafening. The only voices of support seem to be other Mom’s who have made the switch as well. Why is that? I know that its the Battle of the Little Pro-Breastfeeding Guy Girl against the Big Bad Formula Corporation…but why the nastiness from breastfeeders towards the bottlefeeders? I’ve seen nicer comments regarding the two-year that smokes in Indonesia than I have about women who choose to bottlefeed. Seriously.

I thought a big reason why women don’t breastfeed is lack of support…shouldn’t that start with the ‘lactivists’? I’ve heard them called nipple nazis, lactation evangelists, and any number of other terms that are not only unflattering, but show the teeth of what is supposed to be (in my mind anyway) a movement that supports women.

Attachment parenting is defended with a ferocity that rivals a political bent…I went to a blog that has been one of my favorites and got her vehement defense of attachment parenting…to such an extent that by the end of her post I was offended, and I currently have no parenting-style affiliation! I’m finding that to be an attitude that is common across the blogosphere. She’s a young first-time Mom, its not like she’s battling against old stereotypes like an older Mom would be. So why is her defense of attachment parenting so bitter sounding?

And its not just limited to either of those things. If someone does say on Twitter that they’re going to have an epidural/go back to work/bottlefeed, its said defensively, and its treated with indifference by the natural birth/SAHM/breastfeeding set. Nothing is ever said outright- but the women who stay at home project just a smidge of a superiority towards mothers who work outside the home. If asked, I would say that most of the SAHM’s would deny it- but there is an edge. Even I can feel it, and I haven’t made a decision on all of those issues.

Am I the only one who sees that little shadow of a bias?

And I don’t write this to incite anger, I’m truly asking in an honest quest for understanding… Am I the young woman who just doesn’t know about the battle for rights to breastfeed/birth naturally/etc that’s happened before my time? I grew up in it though, so maybe I just don’t see that.

What am I missing?