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How I’m Keeping Myself Quasi-Sane
Things are definitely starting to look up around these parts! Looking back on it, I think last Monday, the three-week mark, was the start of the upswing in our trajectory. The day before, on Sunday, I called a dear friend (and former colleague) of mine to chat about the difficulty of being a new mother. Our whole conversation was helpful, but she said something in particular that really resonated with me. She said, “You know, Sara, we’re the kind of people who typically get good results when we put in a lot of hard work and effort. But being a new parent isn’t like that.”… Read MoreFrom that point on, I
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Parenting Book Recommendations
Wow. It really is hard to be new parents. I just went back and reread my List of Why It Will Be Hard to Have an Infant, and I think those challenges are pretty spot on. I think it’s also been hard because I haven’t experienced a lot of joy in these first few weeks.… Read MoreWow. As I write that, I feel like that’s an unfair thing to say. I have had a lot of joy in the past three weeks. I guess it’s the ratio that’s off. I have had a lot of good moments, but the number of difficult and challenging moments has simply overshadowed all those
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Henry’s Radio Debut
Our family was interviewed on the KPFT Whole Mother radio show on Monday morning (at 6:30 am!) to chat about our hybrid home/hospital birth. If you’re interested in listening, you can search for the Whole Mother show on the archives page or play the show directly to your audio player.
