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Life in the Sling

Life doesn’t slow down so you can stop and nurse
when you have three older children.

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The Fringes of Nutrition

I ordered my dehyrdrator yesterday, so I am
really committed to trying raw foods. Why does this scare me?

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Three Metaphors for the Postpartum Experience

Because if I can’t describe exactly how it feels,
I can tell you what it resembles…

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Birth Story 4.0

Is this interesting to anyone who isn’t pregnant
or just given birtth or a self-proclaimed natural birth junkie? But it helps
keep me from assaulting total strangers in line at the grocery store with “Guess
what I did!” I have spent forever editing this, wanting it to be perfect, but
it is what it is.

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Why It’s Hard to Take Pictures of Newborns

When you can’t write, make lists

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Still Here

Picking myself up, dusting myself off, giving it
another try…

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Birthday Photos

Really, I will write again soon…

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Crush

Do you remember your first?

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Lame

One minute I was standing there, fine, the next
moment I took a step where the curb wasn’t and was in pain.

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“A Thousand Yesterdays Ago, I Was a Baby”

Sometimes you feel invisible as the middle
child.

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