After having a preemie, my friend Kirsten unwittingly takes on her husband’s personality, and becomes obsessed with numbers. To the decimal point.
A war correspondent on childbirth vs dodging a sniper.
Toilets, exposed body parts, . . . pornography?! My friend Nat shares her horror story about pumping at work.
Here at LST we’ve done a lot of episodes on breast-(or not)-feeding. Friend of the blog, Mary, sent me a link to a cool Tumblr curated by Sarah B. of drunkenbee called Feeding the Baby, with stories all about—you guessed it—feeding your baby. In every way possible. It probably won’t surprise you to know that […]
My friend Kristin and I reminisce over our frequent angsty phone calls after our daughters were born. And she reveals something to me she’s never told me before.
Here’s what I knew about myself as a newborn before I became a mom: I weighed four-and-a-half pounds (though I wasn’t a preemie); my parents took me from the hospital against doctors’ orders, before I had gained the required amount of weight to leave; and I had shockingly orange hair (I come from two brunettes). […]
A mom who finds breastfeeding stressful discovers that a machine helps her feel closer to her son.
A newborn turns blue, is rushed to the NICU, and his parents deal with going home while the baby remains in the hospital, hooked up to machines.