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msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines NYT Recipes for HealthLast week, my mother stayed the night with me. I walked through the living room after she had gone to bed, and she emerged from her room to go to the bathroom. I didn’t expect to see her, so when I caught her profile in my peripheral, I screamed and danced a manic jig. Naturally. [...]
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It’s evident that my blogging comes and goes like Owen’s ability to eat solid foods, which is to say that some days are appetizing like sweet potatoes and others are more like “butternut squash + spitup down my shirt.” I’ve previously expressed my fear of introducing Owen to solid foods since doing so would bring [...]
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Owen has attended daycare since March 2. In fact, he’s attended three daycares. He started his third daycare a little over a week ago. Daycare 1: Precious baby sleeps in swing all day. As in, sleeping in swing all day. As in, never awake. As in, one day, when they let Owen’s milk dump out [...]
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Around 10:00 every night, I give Owen what I call a “sleep feed.” Kyle lifts Owen out of his crib and places him into my arms, where I nurse him while he’s sleeping. The purpose of this extra bit of nutrition is to hopefully help him sleep through the night without waking up due to [...]
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In the sake of transparency, let me tell you why I haven’t written much about being a mother: Being a mother is hard. So very hard, for many reasons. But for now I’ll share with you only one of those reasons, lest you think I’m a horribly incompetent and irrational person. (Which, to be fair, [...]
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