One of the many things I learned from our years of trying to have Joe is to never ask anyone if they’re thinking of having kids, or thinking of having more kids, and to instead …
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do you guys want more
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a bath
Watching my Mom give my son a bath, I realize that life is a series of Realizing things too Late. Years from now, I’ll be giving my son’s baby a bath, and I’ll start to …
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thoughts and prayers for our lower backs
Ever since Joe was quite wee, like maybe three weeks old? Morrison has been encouraging him to ‘walk.’ At first it was just a newborn reflex, like a fart smile, he would peddle his legs …
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Amelia
How to gently, dreamily float the concept of death to a 7 month old: NEVER TO RETURN. But her body was never found, and so, did she die? Is she an angel? DOES SHE NOW …
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why to be a Baby
Having a baby makes you want to be one again. Sometimes I pretend I’m one again, but this time, I appreciate it. Scenario: I experience a big new emotion, experience or sensation, something that overwhelms …
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Djuna Blue
On 1/28, my magic little niece, Djuna Blue, arrived in the world like a carefully planned thought, a dollop of fresh cream, or maybe fairy bird queen, or all of it. I truly see something …
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Sleep Train
For the past week or so, Joe has been going through what I will call a ‘Sleep Event’ in which he’s regressing, or maybe it’s we who are regressing, and we are sort of attempting …
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a family
Coronavirus has surely taken some normalcies from us, BUT I WAS NOT ABOUT TO LET IT ROB ME OF THE FIRST FAMILY PICTURE, IN WHICH THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS DESPERATELY TRYING TO MAKE THE BABY SMILE …
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WHERE IS THE DRAGON
When choosing a Wubbanub for one’s child — which is baby word for pacifier with stuffed animal attached to it, another in a long list of words I never knew and also never knew I’d …
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you had to be there
Today, on how Babies are like Sunsets: pictures don’t capture them. You see the sunset, it’s striking, you scramble for your phone, take a picture, then look at the picture you took, and something magic …