Independence Day

With the Fourth of July coming up this weekend, it has me thinking about freedoms.
Here I sit, a healthy woman with two healthy children. I am free to write things like this:

According to a 2009 UN report, 500,000 women in the developing world die each year as a result of pregnancy, and for every woman who dies, another 20 suffer illness or injury, which can be permanent.
Also, a child born in one of the least developed countries is nearly 14 times more likely to die within the first 28 days of life than in industrialized countries.

I am very thankful that our forefathers (and the women who supported them) declared their independence 234 years ago, and that I was lucky enough to be born in the country that they built for me.

Now two beautiful little baby girls I call BabyCakes and LadyBug are free to grow up and declare their own independence as free women.



Happy Independence Day, my fellow lucky Americans!