Mother's Day 2002

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Mother Power
(Jacqueline Hornor Plumez)

The Nanny Diaries: A Novel
(Emma Mclaughlin, Nicola Kraus)

Baby: Poems on Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies
(Gillian K. Ferguson)
Mother Power
05.12.2002

Lauren Weedman grew up knowing she was adopted.  When she became a teenager, she decided she wanted to meet her birth mother, but the hospital records were sealed and the search seemed hopeless.  Then Lauren’s mom got in on the act, and today Lauren has two moms – and a one woman show about how they all found each other.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge stories about mothers.

  1. Scott Gelfand on the Artificial Womb

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    Scott Gelfand tells Jim Fleming about the latest in reproductive technology: the artificial womb.  He worries that the device will be upon us before we’ve settled all the social and ethical issues it raises.

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  2. Jacqueline Plumez on Motherpower

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    Jacqueline Plumez tells Steve Paulson that every caring woman has greater strength than she imagines and gives some examples of Mother power in action, from MADD to the Mall of America.

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  3. Lauren Weedman on "Homecoming"

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    Lauren Weedman was adopted. When she got curious about her birth parents, her adoptive mother organized a conspiracy to track them down.

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  4. Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus on "The Nanny Diaries"

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    Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus tell Anne Strainchamps about their experience as nannies and discuss the complexities of paid child-care in the home.

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  5. Gillian Ferguson on Poetry for Pregnancy

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    Poet Gillian Ferguson lives in Edinburgh. Her volume “Baby: Poems on Pregnancy, Birth and Babies” explores her experience of being pregnant and giving birth.

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