If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’m writing this at 11:15 at night, big cup of coffee at my side, fully aware that in less than six or seven hours I’ll be crawling out of bed and starting another full day of writing, cleaning, and [...]
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My grandmother was none-to-thrilled when she found out that I was co-sleeping with my first baby. I hadn’t planned on co-sleeping, but it turned out to be the only way I could ever get any consistent sleep. To my grandmother, co-sleeping was bizarre and dangerous. I think this type of thing was [...]
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I remember when I was pregnant with my daughter — how the tiredness hit me so suddenly in my first trimester. It was as if someone stuck a straw in my belly button and sucked out every ounce of energy in my body, leaving one tired vessel behind.
Over the next few weeks, I managed [...]
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I’m a little groggy as I write this because my daughter was up most of the night with a bad cough. She has seasonal allergies and last night a huge wind rolled in, so voila! She coughed through most of the night and was so upset about it that she kept calling out to [...]
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Let me tell you about my husband. He’s a generous, responsible man who loves his kids and has always changed diapers like a champ. He can also sleep through a baby crying with the best of them.
It doesn’t matter if the baby is merely whimpering or instead screaming bloody murder. My husband [...]
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