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Making language work for me

Language is a powerful thing. It shapes how we feel about what we are talking about, even when it is just internal dialogue. This pregnancy has reminded me of that. For example, Baby Love was a fan of...

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Baby Boy is here!

I’m doing better at announcing this time than last time – this time I’m only 18 days late! Baby Boy was born in the water after a quick, intense labor at 6:22 AM on December 10, 2014. He weighed 7lb 7...

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Deeper understanding

An idea behind gentle parenting is to be bigger than your child’s big feelings. So when they are melting down, sobbing, and overwhelmed, or yelling, angry, and flailing you are an imperturbable source...

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Baby Boy’s birth story

Once again, I was approaching 42 weeks and my induction deadline. Starting around my due date I began going to acupuncture to encourage Baby Boy out and using other gentle inducements, including...

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When having a baby doesn’t make you happy

When I left my engineering job due to health issues the casual question that always came up in conversation that I most hated was, “What do you do for a living?” Now the casual question that always...

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Sibling Love

Baby Love ADORES her new baby brother. She wants him around all the time, loves tandem nursing with him, and “helps” him in various sundry ways. She shows him whatever she has so he can “enjoy” it with...

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When a swing is not a swing

Last weekend The Energizer Daddy and I attended first round games for the March Madness tournament on Friday and Sunday. On Friday Baby Love and Baby Boy were left with Baby Love’s good friend and one...

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Thank you my way

Sorry I’ve been MIA. Postpartum depression, it is a bitch. I’m tentatively saying I’ve gotten the upper hand, but it was pretty overwhelming for awhile. And now I’m going to pretend there’s been no gap...

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Independence from dependence

Recently all 6 of the children my mother-in-law bore were in the same city for the first time in years, so we drove a half an hour each way to see them every night for 9 days, including 2 full weekend...

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No big deal

Toddlers get so upset about some pretty ridiculous things. So the blue plate is dirty and he has to use the green plate. It’s still a working plate! So she has ten trains and I tell her to give her...

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