Thanks for your 'thoughtful' remarks. If only as much attention were paid to the health of our children as to the typos of working fathers! I know women (and men) who purchase their baby food pre-made, others who prepare their own or use a combination of the two. Obviously there are many factors affecting this, like any of our daily decisions. My daughter's mom enjoys giving Pearl home-mashed foods (when she's not working on her dissertation, or when she is!) instead of those processed in a factory--not just for some abstract nutritional or mere cost-saving reasons. Prioritizing the time it takes to integrate real, home-made food into the diets of those who need it most rewards us in those ways, but also in the creation of a process that we can feel comfortable continuing into Pearl's later years and adulthood. The three-fold claim that a) men are insensitive to womens' balancing act, b) men are less 'overworked' than women and c) there is a necessary trade-off between being busy and being able to free oneself from the marketed "conveniences" that 'feed the bellies of the pigs who exploit us ' are all speciously reasoned at best. Sounds like a little more support from your baby's daddy might be welcome. Also, recent research supports the notion that in the last 25 years males have caught up to--or surpassed--females in America when it comes to the bodily and psychological stresses of working parenthood (holler at me for citations). At least I'm glad a busy mom found time to Dig In while surfing the web! >>

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