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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WHERE IS THE DRAGON
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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 …
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Crying Practice
Over the last few weeks and months I have ingested many apps and blogs and articles and message boards, led to each after Googling something like ‘IS BABY OKAY?’ or ‘NORMAL TO FEEL LIKE BABY …
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The Crib
Last week we hit the THIRD TRIMESTER which means that in a VERY SHORT AND YET WHAT STILL FEELS LIKE A LARGE AMOUNT OF TIME, the baby will live OUTSIDE my body, and we will …
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UNE PAIR DE PANTELONES
This tiny pair of yellow pants with planets on them kept appearing on Ads on my internets, AND SO I SUCCUMBED. Our kid now has one pair of pants. They are labeled 6-12 months I …
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That time we were Wimps
Me, complaining to my Mom on the phone yesterday: Our doctor won’t let Morrison be in the room for the next ultrasoundddddddd! Mom: (with genuine empathy) Oh, no! Me: It’s a precaution because of the …
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YES, IT HOLDS UP
I confess that at least once a month, if not weekly, I think about the 90’s movie, Junior, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger CARRIES A BABY TO TERM. When I think about it, I’m usually wondering, …
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Suffering Noisily
Yesterday, I had another surgery that’s hopefully getting us one step closer to having a tiny person running around our house demanding to know where Poop comes from. It was the longest I’d ever been …
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Path to Healing
I can’t meditate for more than 3 minutes without getting distracted, and the few times I’ve done acupuncture I’ve just laid there watching the clock and wondering things like ‘Am I healing? Is it happening? …
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WOE IS NOT YOU
I tend to have way too much empathy for people who perhaps don’t deserve it. In the secret parts of my head, I oftentimes empathize with bigots and murderers and terrorists and people who pee …