A sigh of relief. But more relief needed.
You kept charts when your baby was first born. I know you did. Post yours in the new LST flickr pool!
It always irks me when entertainment magazines and blogs marvel at celebrities’ ability to lose weight soon after giving birth. What kind of craziness did Celine Dion have to put her body through to look like that for the Oscars? Penelope Cruz at least had the mama boobs and seemed to be hiding something with […]
Sasha turned one yesterday. It made me think all kinds of things, but lately I’ve especially been thinking about nursing. How I told myself I was going to stop at twelve months. And now here we are. Twelve months. But I feel like we’ve just recently gotten the hang of this breastfeeding thing. Am I […]
Crawling: A Father’s First Year I picked it up at the library and immediately knew I’d love it. Here’s how it starts: There’s a head sticking out of my best friend. This is insane. Anybody who says this moment is the most precious wonderful thing in the world is delusional. This isn’t a miracle, it’s […]
On the first day of our natural childbirth class, our teacher, Michelle, asked us to go around the room and say the first word that came to our heads when she said “childbirth.” We began with a skinny goateed guy who paused for effect before saying, “Miracle.” That’s where we started. Miracle. How can you […]
Back in the beginning, when things were really dark and I was living on an air mattress, there were little pockets of bliss when Sasha started flashing her “social smile.” I could get her to do it maybe 3 or 4 times in a row by smiling big at her and asking, “Do you have […]
Barista Kids on the launch of The Longest Shortest Time. Excerpt below. Read the full article here. The Longest Shortest Time may earn a small commission from products linked on this site. Using our affiliate links helps support our work.
There’s a group of little girls who live in our building and the surrounding houses that play in the driveway we all share. I call them the Blacktop Gang. Sometimes there are days when the only people I talk to aside from Sasha, my baby, are girls from the Blacktop Gang. The things they tell […]
There’s lots of not-so-helpful stuff out there about childbirth and early parenthood. But this quote from Harriet Lerner nails it.