Two summers ago I developed the rash of all rashes. It masked my face in a Phantom-of-the-Opera shape and covered my body in patches from neck to ankle. It got worse day after day.
There was only one medication the doctors told me would make it go away: prednisone....
(2) Comments | Posted April 18, 2013 | 12:18 PM
Dear Andrea, circa 2007:
You decided to wait until your 30s to have children. Good for you! Your 20s were well-travelled and you sowed your oats. But be forewarned -- those kids you nannied when you were 24 are going to get more energy than your own children ever will....
(11) Comments | Posted March 11, 2013 | 5:57 PM
When Attached Parents at Work recently added a "Reasons to co-sleep" post to its Facebook page, very much in favour of the practice rooted in attachment parenting, there arose such a clatter that you could actually hear claws emerging from mama bears. Mothers on one side of the...
(0) Comments | Posted December 31, 2012 | 11:30 AM
I haven't made a New Year's resolution in years, maybe decades. It's not that I don't have lots to work on. I should lose more than a few pounds. I should blog less and date my husband more. I should floss.
But our family life is only...
(9) Comments | Posted November 26, 2012 | 11:03 AM
I used disposable diapers for four years between my two kids.
It's not that I didn't consider cloth diapers with my first baby. But as I wandered up and down the aisles of a baby show back in 2008, pregnant and inching closer to bankruptcy because of all of the...
(0) Comments | Posted October 9, 2012 | 12:08 PM
If there's one thing I've learned from parenthood, it's never say "never."
And so it was with baby-led weaning. I was nursing my then eight-month-old who -- until that point -- was an ardent breastfeeder and had been gobbling up baby mush for two months with gusto. Then he started...
(91) Comments | Posted September 7, 2012 | 5:01 PM
Let me start with this: I believe in personal freedom. I do. I believe that as a responsible, tax-paying, free-thinking adult in this fine country, you have earned your rights.
Too bad smoking around babies and children is legal. It shouldn't be.
When I was pregnant with my first...
(4) Comments | Posted August 22, 2012 | 7:18 AM
It's August, so inevitably just about everything, at every turn, is back to school-related. But some of us aren't sending our kids back to school -- we're sending them off to school for the first time. My first-born -- my baby boy who's actually four-years-old and no longer resembles a...
(8) Comments | Posted June 13, 2013 | 12:23 PM