Seventeen years ago I was hugely pregnant and watching the calendar roll further and further beyond my due date. When I did finally have my baby 10 days past that elusive date, I was thrilled. But I was also completely shocked at just how much real life differed from my fantasies about childbirth and new motherhood. I read the books and took all the courses. I thought I knew … [Read more...]
If You Give Your Baby a Bottle…
I’m a Sisterhood of Motherhood Partner and a sponsored blog partner, but all opinions are my own. Please see below for additional disclosure. When my husband and I were expecting our first baby sixteen years ago, I was fairly open to how I was going to feed him. I wanted to nurse and had friends and family who had a great experience with it. My mother nursed my sisters and … [Read more...]
Competitive Mothering
Have you ever sat in a PTA meeting and broke out in a sweat as you recall that you sent your kid to school with a plain old sandwich and juice box while you listen to the woman next to you describe the lunch she packed for hers. The one complete with bread she made herself and cut into the shape of a snowflake? Or while you are watching your angel play at a Baby-and-Me … [Read more...]
A Story With a Happy Ending
The first time I found out I was pregnant, I had just gotten home from work to our apartment. I was changing out of my work clothes and into something more comfortable when I noticed my chest in the bedroom mirror. It looked different. And a lot bigger. Is it possible? Could I really be pregnant the first month we tried? Though I had promised myself that I … [Read more...]
My First Baby Had Fur
My husband and I are planners. We rarely jump into anything blind, whether it’s buying a new car or a throw pillow for the sofa. We research our purchases and discuss our options. Three years into our marriage, we felt ready to start a family. We weren’t the type of couple that was just going to throw out the birth control and let nature take it’s course. No, we were going … [Read more...]
