MOTHERHOOD

In the final installment of our series on motherhood — "Working Mother" — Sarah Jacobson interviews filmmaker Allison Anders (director of Gas Food Lodging) about her three children, why you should birth without drugs, and how she was the first director to list daycare providers in her film's credits. Plus, take the Motherhood Poll to see where you fall in the working moms spectrum, and then join in the Motherhood topic of the Women's Zone Conference to discuss all this and more.

The Women's Zone Conference Join Bust's Deb Stoller (AKA Celina Hex), Bernadette Noll, and the coolest mothers, mothers-to-be, and ne'er-be-mothers we could find, in the Women's Zone Conference. (Become a member — free — first.)

(September_03) Working Mother

The Motherhood Poll To work, to telecommute, to give it all up for motherhood?

Interview with Allison Anders Sarah Jacobson talks to filmmaker Allison Anders about her three children, the guilt of motherhood, and why you should birth without drugs.

Previously:
August 20: Soon Enough A Mama

Pregnant Pause
Bernadette Noll got her sonogram at 18 weeks and was finally convinced of her pregnancy. Then the planning and the hoping and the wondering began.

Open Letter to the Mother-to-Be
Bunny Fisher, guardian angel of soon-enough-mamas everywhere, has some advice: Don't take any. Don't listen to anyone. Except for this one thing...


August 27: Crazy Mama

What Turns Moms Into Zombies, And Other Questions
Candi Strecker defends new moms and asks that you please treat them like normal human beings. Even if they don't always act like them.

Under the Big Top
Bernadette Noll goes shopping for maternity wear and uncovers a conspiracy — it's all designed to make mothers look like babies! She beseeches: Give us something good to wear.

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