Baby #2, no job, + tradeoffs & prioritizing
Kids force you to prioritize, which means you have to be honest with yourself about what you want, which sometimes isn't what you thought you wanted.
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Motherhood
Wrangling little boys. Also, wrangling myself.
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7 Days in the NICU
My full-term baby spent a week in the NICU, first being treated for respiratory distress, then learning to feed by mouth. It was a very hard week.
A good inch
Much to my chagrin, I make more progress by being kind and gentle with myself.
Do the obvious next thing
Letting gravity be my guide, like water.
Already rich
Seeing the present, not the future.
Go into the arts
I yell into the void to provoke the void to yell back. Sometimes it listens, sometimes it doesn't.
A-tisket, a-tasket
Coping, hoping.
Firstborn
On bearing a child and becoming a mother.
A child isn't born yet
Hello my dears (as my yoga teacher sometimes says). I feel affectionate of late. As you may know, I'm having a baby. A son, in fact! We learned that part recently. To
Ideograph • sprouting
Guess what: I'm pregnant. A baby is growing inside my abdomen. My uterus has more than doubled in size and produced an entire new organ, the placenta. Plus my child's
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