Even the New York Times admits that Sarah Palin is more than capable of giving her family and her job ample attention -- just like millions of other working moms.

Many high-powered parents separate work and children; Ms. Palin takes a wholly different approach. “She’s the mom and the governor, and they’re not separate,” Ms. Cole said. Around the governor’s offices, it was not uncommon to get on the elevator and discover Piper, smothering her puppy with kisses.

“She’ll be with Piper or Trig, then she’s got a press conference or negotiations about the natural gas pipeline or a bill to sign, and it’s all business,” Ms. Burney, who works across the hall, said. “She just says, ‘Mommy’s got to do this press conference.’ ”

Ms. Palin installed a travel crib in her Anchorage office and a baby swing in her Juneau one. For much of the summer, she carried Trig in a sling as she signed bills and sat through hearings, even nursing him unseen during conference calls.

In other words, she has found a way of doing things that works for her and her family. Isn't that what feminists have told us women ought to be able to do?

But beyond that, there are a couple of other details that show up in the article that go a long way towards driving the final nails in the coffin of Trig Trutherism.

On her trip to an from Texas, which occurred a full month before the baby's expected due date.:

Around 4 a.m. on the day of her presentation, Ms. Palin stirred in her hotel room to an unusual sensation. According to The Anchorage Daily News, she was leaking amniotic fluid. She woke her husband and called her doctor back home. Go ahead and give the speech, said the doctor, Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, who declined to comment for this article.

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In fact, Ms. Palin was not in labor, and her doctor thought she had time. So the governor flew to Seattle, continued to Anchorage and then drove to a small hospital near her hometown, Wasilla — a journey of at least 10 hours.

“She wanted to get back to Alaska to have that baby,” said a friend, Curtis Menard. “Man, that is one tough lady.”

A woman with symptoms like Ms. Palin’s should be examined to determine her condition, said Dr. Laura Riley of Massachusetts General Hospital. The long trip home could have posed a risk, “but the odds were still in her favor that everything would be O.K.," said Dr. Susan E. Gerber of Northwestern University.

When Ms. Palin arrived at the hospital, she was still not in labor, so her doctor induced it, Ms. Bruce said. Trig was born early the next morning, weighing 6 pounds 2 ounces.

In other words, there was no undue risk posed by the trip either way, though some amateur OB/GYNs online tried to argue differently for partisan advantage.

Parents in the delivery rooms surrounding Palin's also note that Bristol Palin and her sisters were coming and going during the birthing process, so no chance remains that Bristol could be Trig's mother folks. Another Trig Truter rumor bites the dust.

Oh, and about the three-day turnaround time between Trig's birth and Sarah Palin's return to work? With daughter Piper, she had gone back to work the next day. Seems to me that there is a pattern there that makes the short maternity leave with Trig understandable.

My only surprise? That this article appeared in the New York Times.

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