When I was pregnant, I read every pregnancy book I could get my hands on (including this, most popular one). The advice in those books was easy to follow: what not to eat, what symptoms to get checked out, how to safely prepare the baby’s room. But when I switched from pregnancy to parenting books, the […]
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Baby Sleep, 101
If you didn’t read yesterday’s post, You Can Be A Baby Sleep Expert, Too, please take a look before reading this post; it contains the introduction to Baby Sleep, 101. If your baby (or your friend’s or family member’s baby) magically slept 12 hours a night and took 3 perfect, hour-plus naps a day from the […]
Cry It Out: So It’s Come To This
I carried my son for (more than) nine months. Nine months of heartburn, leg cramps and backaches. Nine months of nausea and food aversions. Nine months of Tums, Pepcid and heating pads. Nine more months have passed since Edwin was born. During those nine months, he hasn’t slept through the night once. Which means I […]
Current Influences
I’m going to start a new blog series called- you guessed it- Current Influences. I believe that what I read, watch and listen to strongly influences my thinking, and my thinking strongly influences my writing. So to give you some insight into where my mind is during any given time period, I thought I’d post […]