Reading the posts from this week last year on Blogging Baby has stirred up deep emotions and, as usual, pondered interesting questions on parenthood, blogs and the miracle of life.

This week last year, the world's tiniest baby ever born and survived headed home after a six-month stay in hospital, a Sudanese baby was named "1 o'clock" and Peruvian 9 month-old Milagros Cerron, who was born with a rare congential defect known as sirenomelia (or the "mermaid syndrome") was about to undergo surgery to separate her legs (you can read about her successful operation and recovery here).

This week last year Sarah Gilbert complained about dads not getting any respect in parenting books, stereotyped working-mothers and posted a must-read roundup of some of the best responses to David Hochman's "the baby blog in many cases is an online shrine to parental self-absorption" article in the New York Times Sunday Styles ("Mommy (and me)").

My favorite quote though is from Sarah herself: "If there were any justice in the world, if things were in their rightful place, then these parents would be the ones who were paid to add their witty, poetic, inspirational, insightful, and downright fabulous words to the world, instead of those at the New York Times.“

Amen to that.