Dear MomsRising.org member, Anyone else having a hard time sleeping? No wonder. Many of us are just one pink slip away from losing a home or health insurance. This is no time for politics as usual. Right now, Congress is working to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the economic stimulus package and its passage is in no way guaranteed.

When children get sick, they depend on their parents to help them feel better, but if soup and hugs don’t work, it’s time to call the doctor.

I spent most of the weekend watching the debate in the Senate on the stimulus bill, or listening to people talk about the debate on the stimulus bill. I know I am suffering from stimulus bill overload, but before I go stick my head in an ice bucket, I want to make the following points.

Imagine this: a user-friendly website where, with free and easy access, mothers who have given birth within the last three years provide detailed feedback about their birth experiences at the one end, and parents-to-be will soon be able to retrieve the pooled reporting on local providers and facilities at the other end, all anonymously and nationwide. But no need to imagine, and this is a first!