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Gone are the Precious Days of Babyhood

It seems like yesterday I was watching you dance in my belly, anxiously awaiting your arrival. Now you’re going to be ONE at the end of this month,…

My mom always said she loved giving birth, and she’d do it over and over again. Each time she said that, I thought she was crazy. Giving birth is…

It’s 2 a.m., and I’m tired. He’s been fed, burped, and changed, and is now peacefully asleep on my shoulder. I lay him in his…

No one tells you it’s going to be this hard. That you’ll feel responsible for their beating heart long after they have left your body. That the…

I love our son’s cry. To us, it means life. It means we have a living baby in front of us. When our first son Carter was born at 9:06 p.m., we…

Now my view most days is from home. I’ve been bunkered down since March 15th in a self-quarantine to keep my family, my husband, two…

Dear Keegan, You were born in the midst of a worldwide emergency. You were born on the day the first death occurred in the United States from…

Giving birth for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic without my husband in the hospital felt strange. It was lonely at times. It didn’t…

In the midst of decluttering and cleaning, I didn’t expect to be stopped by something so tiny. A blanket. A simple, faded receiving blanket I had…

Dear baby, I will protect you with everything that I have. You deserve to come into this world safe and loved and protected. The…