I don’t know about you, but sometimes I find children’s toys overwhelming. They’re bright, loud, plastic, and create visual clutter that I have to imagine can stress out a kid as much as the adult tripping over them. One thing I learned while plowing through parenting books was how important play is to a child’s development. They’re learning physical skills, […]

Labor is hard, but at least it’s over in a day.  Breastfeeding can be a long, protracted suffering – filled with milk spills, cracked nipples, a baby screaming in your face, and leaking through your dry-clean-only silk shirt when you were feeling overconfident about your abilities to stay spill-free. Death by one thousand leaks. But, when it works, it’s amazing. […]

Putting together my registry for my baby shower was a stressful task. Everyone had some gadget or book or something I had to get – it was quickly turning into an avalanche of stuff. How could something so small require so much? The truth is, very few of the things you get for your baby are essential. In some countries, […]

The last few weeks have been the hardest and happiest of my life. I’ve been warned, “get ready to fall in love,” and I have to say, I’ve never been more in love with my husband than watching him change diapers at 3am, or helping me move my legs out of bed because of my separated hips, or watching him […]

About two weeks ago I had a moment of panic. In high school it would have been realizing that I had forgotten about a paper that was due the next day, in adulthood it would have been remembering a conference call I was supposed to dial into about 5 minutes too late, and in motherhood it’s realizing that while I […]

When I would share my due date with friends (end of July, by the way), I would always get the response, “Oh you’re so lucky to be missing summer!” Earlier in my pregnancy, I didn’t really understand this response. Why would it matter? Isn’t summer all about flouncy dresses and switching out make up for sun block, and hair maintenance […]

Ice cream social as a theme for my baby shower sort of found me. I was originally thinking I would do a picnic at one of my favorite parks, but my mom and sister were mutually horrified at the idea of me waddling onto a picnic blanket, not to mention the loading and unloading of feeding 30 people from baskets. It […]

My “off duty style” isn’t usually much in the style department. I tend to be horizontal, in bed, picking out popcorn remnants from my bra, balancing a remote and/or cat on my newly popped belly. A vision of pregnant glamour, indeed. But, every now and then I empty a bottle of dry shampoo into my hair and pull it together, […]

Being in my third trimester in the summer time has changed some priorities. First off, sandals are the only shoes that fit my swollen feet, and thank god pants aren’t necessary anymore because mama doesn’t have time for that. And for beauty – I’m way more interested in skincare than make up. The pregnancy “glow” is a made up thing […]

Just as we settled into our house, just as we made all of the finishing touches, we find out we need to turn our guest room into a nursery. At the beginning of my pregnancy, this was a bit overwhelming, because of the possible domino effects – will we have a second kid? Where will guests sleep? I have to […]