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	<title>Rachael Stott &#187; Motherhood</title>
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		<title>Things I never thought I&#8217;d say&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; to a toddler under two. Don&#8217;t climb the screen door higher than the door handle. Put the beer bottle down. Take the SD card out of the laptop and put it back in the camera. Now! It is not polite to call your uncle &#8216;boring&#8217;. You can have Sushi on Saturday. It&#8217;s not nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To the Aunties&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 09:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was Mother&#8217;s day (in Australia). I slept in and woke to the sound of my son running up to the side of my bed. He really does sound like a heard of baby elephants, perhaps it is the fact that he has the physique of a rugby front rower &#8211; and he isn&#8217;t even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk about &#8230; My fine line</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/04/lets-talk-about-my-fine-line/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lets-talk-about-my-fine-line</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a fine line, at least in my pretty little head, between submitting to someone else&#8217;s will and choosing to find happiness in someone else&#8217;s happiness. You might need to read that one again. It is a really, really, fine line. This is a really complicated issue. At least for me. The concept of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk about&#8230;. my imperfection</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/03/lets-talk-about-my-imperfection/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lets-talk-about-my-imperfection</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog should have been written 24 hours ago. Maybe more. No excuses here, mind you. I am open to criticism and may she who embodies perfection throw the first stone. Any takers? No? Really? That&#8217;s no surprise to me. But it does bring up an important question &#8211; Why do we try so hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The price of motherhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t realise how many erroneous beliefs I had absorbed about motherhood until I had my son. Then suddenly all I felt was guilty for all the things I assumed I was doing &#8216;wrong&#8217;. I felt horribly sub par as a mother every time the baby cried. Every time I winced audibly when he attached to my breast, I felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youthful mis-perceptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dear friend posted a blog asking us what out 16-year-old self would think about our lives now. My 16-year-old self wouldn&#8217;t think anything about my life now. She would be seeing red, steam pouring form here ears busily hating on and writing off my life. No, I am not kidding. My 16 year old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk about&#8230;Breasts (boobs, knockers, tits, jugs, fun-bags, globes)</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/02/lets-talk-about-breasts-boobs-knockers-tits-jugs-fun-bags-globes/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lets-talk-about-breasts-boobs-knockers-tits-jugs-fun-bags-globes</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never much been ashamed of breasts. I come from a long line of well endowed women, so I have been comfortable with the idea of cleavage for as long as I can remember. Breast were normal. In my final year of primary school I had the largest breasts in class. By far. I found them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE Wait</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/02/the-wait/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-wait</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate it. You probably do too. I think I hate the wait more than the requisite pissing on the stick. You know the wait I am talking about. It is the oh-god-I-think-my-life-might-change-in-a-millisecond-once-this-5-minute-wait-is-up wait. If you are a sexually active woman, you have probably experienced this wait at least once. I mean, no contraception is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The laundry list of unspoken topics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.rachaelstott.com/?p=855</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By nature these experiences fly in the face of the accepted bounds of womanhood. They aren&#8217;t expected of the innocent maiden, the loving wife or the nurturing mother. And let&#8217;s face it, society at large still has some difficulty dealing with femininity outside of those roles. These experiences have often been ascribed to the &#8216;undesirable&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bleeding Heart</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2010/01/bleeding-heart/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bleeding-heart</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been called a soft touch more than once. I cannot bear to see harrowed anguish on somebody face, let alone hear it in their voice or cry. Watching someone bleed or writhe in pain draws a physical reaction from me. I cannot help but do something, even if that something is pray. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My peace with discipline</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2009/12/my-peace-with-discipline/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=my-peace-with-discipline</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self discipline keeps us true to our inner compass. Genuine authentic external authority is similar. It helps us to develop the capacity for self-discipline and to decide where our own personal boundaries are. But authority and discipline for the sake of it simply crush the soul.]]></description>
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		<title>When no labels fit&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.rachaelstott.com/2009/09/when-no-labels-fit/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=when-no-labels-fit</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rae</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite this being the state of affairs since my maternity leave began 15 months ago, the realisation that I don't have to rejoin the workforce only hit me this week. Until now I have been busying myself with finding roles and labels for myself and what I do. You see I know I have value, but I have always known it through the filter of external labels. It was what I did and what the world saw me as that was valuable. Now the world sees me as a 'Stay at home mother' and while it is a role I relish it is (I'm being honest here) such a reductive label.]]></description>
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