The other day, I walked in to the office and noticed a coworker who just returned from maternity leave. “Welcome back!” I told her. We discussed the usual baby talk (“I never knew breastfeeding could be so hard!” she revealed) as she settled in to her desk. Later, as I was grabbing a cup of [...]
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How many times have you been frustrated with your kid and said to yourself, “If only he was a little older”? I remember wondering during the early days just when exactly this parenting thing gets easier. “Three months—that’s when they’re finished with the fourth trimester,” I often heard. “Life starts to feel normal again at [...]
Yesterday, Time Magazine published a cover featuring a mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son as he stands on a stool suckling from her breast. The issue marks the 20-year anniversary of attachment parenting, as coined by Dr. Sears. Breastfeeding is like its own character—mommy wars are launched between breastfeeding and formula-feeding teams, discussion arises as to [...]
“Moo.” For the first several months of breastfeeding, I felt like a cow, and it had nothing to do with my post-pregnancy body. If I wasn’t constantly breastfeeding, I was pumping. I didn’t realize how often babies need to eat, nor how long each feeding session would take. And at family parties, I was either [...]
My two-year-old has been relatively easy for the past several months. We haven’t had any major tantrums or patience-testing phases. He’s been sleeping through the night like clockwork. And he has been so patient and compliant even when I would never expect a toddler to be (such as sitting calmly in an over-crowded Costco while [...]
Two years ago when my toddler was entering his fourth month, I offered him his first solid foods. (I was secretly hoping eating solid food would help him sleep longer. It didn’t.) My husband and I tend to cook meals at home, so making our own baby food wasn’t too much of a stretch. So [...]
Two years ago, when my toddler was four months old, I described in my journal how frustrating it was trying to get him to sleep and how much our lives had changed. You would think that after reading all those baby books, I would know how difficult caring for a baby would be, how much [...]
I’m no expert on picky eating, but I would guess that half of what makes a picky eater is their personality. Some people are born with more adventurous tastebuds while others stick to the tried and true. In that case, perhaps the other half of what makes a picky eater (or the opposite, a not-so-picky [...]
I’ve been exclusively breastfeeding for the past seven months and can’t believe I still have five more to go. Well, actually I can’t believe I’m still breastfeeding to begin with. During the first month, I wanted to quit so bad that I went online or read a baby book every day to keep myself motivated: [...]
