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Ivy's Birthday Weekend 21 Aug 2013 | 10:44 am
So Ivy turned one—have I mentioned that Ivy is ONE?!—and despite my best intentions, her birthday celebration got stretched out into several birthday celebrations. (And we have one more coming up this...
One 15 Aug 2013 | 10:09 am
Birth My hands found her easily, and I pulled a baby up and onto my chest. She was pink and perfect. "Ivy!" I kissed her over and over. "Welcome, Ivy! You got born! You're here!" One Month May.....
Bye, Bye Baby 14 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
Tomorrow is her first birthday. And I know she'll still be a baby—I know a year from now, I'll look at pictures of her from tomorrow and say, "She was a baby!"—but she looks like such a big girl. In ...
What a Difference... 14 Aug 2013 | 03:48 am
August 11, 2012 — 39 weeks & 2 days pregnant. August 10, 2013 — Ivy, 51 weeks & 4 days old. ...a year makes. .....................................
Breastfeeding the Second Time Around 7 Aug 2013 | 10:11 am
It's World Breastfeeding Week! This time last year, I was in the "it could be any day now" stage of pregnancy, feeling hopeful and confident that everything would go well the second time around. I tho...
Body Language 3 Aug 2013 | 10:30 am
A few days ago an intriguing piece by Sarah Koppelkam was published in the Huffington Post. The article, really a set of instructions for parents, is titled "How to Talk to Your Daughter About Her Bod...
It's Her Party and He'll Cry If He Wants To 1 Aug 2013 | 09:24 am
Ivy's first birthday is two weeks from today, and as much as I want to celebrate—she's going to be ONE!—I have yet to plan anything. Because I don't know what to do about Westley. When the subject of...
Camera Unshy 31 Jul 2013 | 09:30 am
The only way I ever get a half-decent picture of Ivy these days is by taking about 500 photos at a time. In most of them, she's trying to grab the camera—or complaining because I won't let her grab th...
Exhaustion is Spelled P-A-R-E-N-T-H-O-O-D 26 Jul 2013 | 10:18 am
I wasn't gong to write about this because, well...what else is there to write? A mom is tired. How totally cliché. But I'm all kinds of out of my writing groove, and the ancient wisdom is "write what ...
How Sweet It Isn't: A Sugar-Free Update 20 Jul 2013 | 10:10 am
I'm a little over half-way through my month of sugar-freedom, and it's going really well. I was more than a little annoyed to find sugar in my salt, but cleaning out the pantry wasn't too difficult an...
