One of the most precious things I’ve ever seen is the sight of E playing with R and successfully making her laugh. R has a wonderful laugh–if I do say so myself–very giddy and infectious, but it is not particularly easy to make her laugh without tickling her. But E manages to make her laugh quite often. Usually this is…
Author: Julie
Pain in Childbearing
With both E and R’s births, we went to a freestanding birth center–no pain meds. Our most obvious reason for this decision is that we believe it to be statistically marginally safer (which studies do back up) and it is unquestionably the better choice for parents who want to avoid a C-section at all costs; chances of a section at…
learning new definitions
After I wrote yesterday’s post, I remembered a moment I’d had one day when E woke up from her nap–a good year ago, if not more. And I thought at the time that there was no better definition for how I felt (which was tired, worn, and otherwise struggling) than poured out. It fit so perfectly. Parenthood is so often…