NS grows like a weed. He’s always been tall—long? Are babies long or tall?—and with his rigorous feeding schedule of roughly one million times per day, he’s packed on more than ten pounds in the last 20 weeks. He never …
June Monthly Archives
Fatherhood Is Pretty Good
There’s a saying out there in the world that goes something like: “women become mothers when they find out they’re pregnant, while men become fathers when they meet their first child.” To which I reply, fie on your gender essentialist …
Sleep Deprivation
When I am hungry, I get cranky. When I’m tired, I get cranky. But when I’m exhausted? Like, well and truly beat? I get fucked up. Before I had a baby, the most tired I had ever been was after …
Permission Slips
Having a baby in the house means that every day, you are faced with literally thousands of options and decisions. Some of them will require zero reflection, while others may cause you angst. To save you some sturm und drang, …
Motherhood as Art Form
Just as it’s important to cultivate mom friends—comrades in the poop-, tear-, and milk-filled trenches —I believe it’s important to find parents out there in the world who can act as role models. Mom friends are intimate and pretty much …