This blog post is about 2 years overdue, but, just like I say about remembering to bathe my kids, better late than never. Back in 2016, a few months after Lucy was born I wrote a blog post. It was called The Global OB Fee Trap: How to Find and Fight It. It was a [...]
I've always been a little bit obsessed with "health." And by health I mean exercise and weight management. So not really health. Growing up my parents were always training for one race or another, oftentimes a marathon. And I was always training for the next tryout. Soccer, diving, ultimate. As a family we were almost [...]
Welcoming a new baby into the world is a miracle. Almost as beautiful as the miracle of an epidural. But after the dust settles (literally, all over the living room), the family members leave and everyone else on the planet resumes their normal life - mothers are left with a very tiny, very demanding, very ungrateful little life-form whose [...]
When you're pregnant with your second child there are two questions that everyone (yes, everyone) asks you. Are you ready? What does [insert name of older sibling] think about the baby? The answer to both questions is who the hell knows. I mean really, who knows what a 2.5 year old is thinking about anything? I [...]
I've been both eager and terrified to write Lucy's birth story. Eager because the experience is still so fresh and so raw and so full of emotion. Nervous because this time around my blog actually has followers and I know people are expecting this and reading this and there is no way that even the [...]
They say there are 24 hours in every day - but I assure you that the days following a pregnancy due date have more like 7,458. I thought that this time around I wouldn't be so anxious. I thought having a 2.5 year old would distract me, and that those final weeks would fly by [...]
You twist and turn your arm, reaching for more space, presumably - and an alien ripple cascades across my belly. You're moving your wiggly little body down further and further inside me and as I begin to open up for you, I wince in pain, reminding me that our time together, just the two of us, is rapidly [...]
I've been thinking about writing this post for a few days now - and besides the obvious reasons for the delay (breastfeeding, changing diapers, breastfeeding, changing diapers...also breastfeeding and changing diapers) I've been putting it off because it seems literally impossible (even for a copywriter) to put into words the experience of birthing a child. [...]
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