A loud cry shatters the relative peace and quiet of our home. Running footsteps, swooping arms and then a deep male voice that coos loudly, “Oh no, is Papa’s widdle tiny babywaby blue? Is she blue? Oh no, she is blue. Blue blue blue. Papa’s gonna take care of you right away.” This incredibly fast […]

When I had my first child, one of my husband’s colleagues was the first to visit us in the hospital. And wouldn’t you know it, he showed up right at feeding time. As did the next visitor and the one after that. In fact, every visitor that came in the first month or so came […]

You know you are a blogger when you are lying in bed with a child suckling at your breast and a case of sleep deprivation so severe that you no longer remember your own name…and you are jotting down notes on a piece of paper for the book you HAVE to write. Yep, that happened […]