[Jones Pat]

Originally posted by Laura Heidy-Halberstein:
Well, from all appearances, if that's what he's looking for, he picked well.


I beleive conservative women will be alienated by what they perceive as shirking her mom/family duties. I think Hiillary women will not regard her as a role model.

I think you're 100% right on this one. She's placed herself squarely in the middle of nowhere - she's neither fish nor fowl in the vast space between conservative stay-at-home-children-and-family-come-first women and the women who scorn the lifestyle.

You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. "Strong family values" does not compute well with "drag a three day old special needs infant to the workplace with you every day."

Being really snide here, and freely admitting it, does anyone else find it strange that she posed for Vogue in December 2007 with her daughters and never mentioned her pregnancy, and in fact, did not bother announcing her pregnancy to her staff or coworkers until March 5, 2008 when she announced that she was 7 months pregnant. Two months later she's in Texas when her water begins leaking. She consults with her physician (by phone, I presume) and they decide she can stay, give her speech and then fly home. She did not tell the pilot or the stewardesses on her flight home that she was a double high risk pregnancy (maternal age and a known Downs fetus,) para 5 gravida 5 and 36 weeks pregnant, much less in real danger of going into full-blown premature labor.

Wouldn't your first instinct, as a mother, be to check yourself into the nearest ER and make sure everything was ok before treaking back on a 7+ hour flight to Alaska from Texas? Call me a wuss, but I'd be terrified I'd deliver a dangerously premature infant with anticipated special needs (Downs children have a high incidence of heart related illnesses) in a damn plane.

http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2008...n-governo.html

For that matter, The ACG recommends that even women with normal risk pregnancies do not fly after their 36th week.
http://www.pregnancy-info.net/wellbeing_flying.html

Now I realize that a woman with the strength and courage to return to work when her child is only 3 days old is far stronger than I - and I give her all the credit in the world for managing a family, an infant and a full time job without losing her mind - but where was the concern for the unborn child in all this?

Somehow, if you think about it carefully, she just doesn't seem to be the role-model for family values and motherhood that McCain would like her to be.

I'm not so much knocking her for doing what she's doing, or even for what she's done, we all do what we think we'vegot to do at any given time - what I'm knocking is the fact that she's allowing herself to be held up as a motherhood role model when, in fact, it appears she's taken horrible risks not only with her own health but with the health of her unborn child.

If she's as intelligent as McCain claims she realized the risks of flying after her water broke and very deliberately chose to ignore them - and if she acted in innocence and did not know the danger she was placing her child and herself in, well then all I can say is - she's not as intelligent as we're being led to believe.

Lo

You go, girl! These were my thoughts exactly! Tell Dan hello for me. Hope you newlyweds are doing great.

Pat
(ImaginePat)