Had Enough?

I was having this conversation with a friend:

Friend: I'm coming out and telling people now that I'm going to do a fellowship.

[A fellowship is at least one more year of training AFTER residency. For those of you keeping count, that's about 25yrs of education.]

Me: Oh, good for you if that's what you want to do.

Friend: How about you?

Me: I feel like I have to choose between doing fellowship and having another child. These eggs aren't getting any younger.

Friend: Yeah, you're right. That's the reality of the situation. If you're going to do fellowship, that's gotta be your main focus for that year or two.

Me: Didn't you want to have another one?

Friend: Yes, I'm going to try and crank one out while I'm still in residency.

Me: Good luck with that, too.


Does it bother anyone how unnatural this child planning business is for female doctors? What about this idea of being 'in school' forever?

My YouTube Picks

Meet my babysitters.

I am guilty of sticking my son in this, placing a laptop in front of him and playing the following videos so that I have time for myself. Enjoy!

• Sesame Street with Feist singing 1-2-3-4


• Sesame Street with Nora Jones singing "Don't Know 'Y'"


• Mister Roger's 'Good Feeling.'


• The wedding aisle dance (my boy loves this for some reason)


• Fantasia's Pines of Rome & the third part live by Von Karajan.


• And for more classical tunes, Barry White's My First, My Last, My Everything.

Am I The Targeted Audience?

Always so cool.

There I was lying on my sofa feeling drained of all life and energy when a maxi-pad commercial comes on showing this beautiful woman jogging, presumably while she's menstruating. The next scene is of her showing up for rounds as a medical resident, after which she goes out for a night on the town with her girlfriends.


Really? All those months in pregnancy and breastfeeding seem silly now when I think about the joys to be had shedding my uterine lining. From now on I'll think of it as a career boost!