Category: motherhood
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Why my children are eating ice pops at 6:30 AM
My daughter has a very good memory. Yesterday, when I was picking up my children from daycare, my son, for reasons still unclear to me, decided he wanted to sit in his sister’s car seat for the trip home. My daughter, a person of rule, order, and routine was offended to the point of tears…
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Routine
Another day passes with a soft whoosh like a lamppost outside a car window. My dad said this would happen, and with increasing speed as I got older and I guess he was right. Rather than a day spent as a unit enjoyed whole I spend my moments repeating moments just like the last: getting…
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The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done, Part I
We step into the kitchen and I put my discharge paperwork along with paper bags full of new medications, Paxlovid among them, on the island. My belly is 8 months heavy, and I’m exhausted. We (my baby and I) have just been released after an overnight stay at the hospital. It’s late Spring, 2022. I…
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My Contribution
My son rests his head in tthe hollow where my arm meets my chest, as if it were made for him. As I kiss his forehead I feel the head radiating from his skull; he’s too warm. 103.2. My guess was off, only 101.4. No better than yesterday, I’m afraid. Worse, even. What will we…
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The Lucky Ones
40 weeks Seems far too short to shield your body with mine. What I wouldn’t give to take from you every bullet Such that you could have every breath of mine As God and Nature intended it to be We cannot hide forever As much as my heart wants to You will not bloom if…
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To parent, to sleep, to dream
I can do more make my daughter take a nap that I can yell at the rain and stop it from pouring. I could do it some parents do, which is throw their kid in a sparsely furnished dark room, turn off the lights, and close the door. I can’t do that for several reasons,…
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Of Pumping and Producing
After heating up a fresh bottle of formula, I prop the bottle up for my 6-month hold son to hold on the floor. With a slight adjustment, he’s successful, and I turn back to the task at hand. I’m a little embarrassed that I consider holding his own bottle to be a huge accomplishment, but…
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Short Sketches: Pantaloons
Now post motherhood (both of the cat and human variety) my ears are fine-tuned to pick up strange noises. Noises that say “something is amiss.” So when I hear a squelching noise to my right, I can wake up from a dead sleep and be ready to spring into action. Charms has had an upset…
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“Lovevery It or Leave It?” 0-3 Months
With my second baby about to hit 6 months I can say I’ve been around the block (at least once) when it comes to baby toys. Below are my must-have toys for babies 0-6 months, along with a comparison of Lovevery’s box kits. With my first child, we had a Loveevery subscription, which I can…
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Meet the Willow “Go”
Are you sitting down? Get ready for the Willow Go.
Med-Derm, MD 