Journal

Thoughts, reads,
and the real stuff.

Book reviews, postpartum tips, and an honest account of what it's actually like to be a brand new doula. Welcome.

A parent lying on a blanket on the living room floor with their eyes closed, a swaddled baby resting on their chest.
Postpartum Tips

I Swear, He’s Manipulating Me

At three in the morning, after the fifteenth careful transfer to the crib, it feels like the only explanation. Manipulation takes planning...

August 6, 2026 Read →
Cover of the Little Critter picture book The New Baby by Mercer Mayer, showing the Critter kneeling beside a wooden cradle with a baby in it.
Postpartum Tips

< A Little While Later >

Most sibling advice covers the first day, the gift from the baby, the special outing. Less gets said about day four, when...

July 24, 2026 Read →
Title card reading “The conversation I’m not supposed to win” on a peach background, labelled Overshare, with the line “On staying quiet long enough for someone to hear themselves.”
Day in the Life

The Opinions

A parent says they are going to let the baby cry it out and the opinion rises before they have finished the...

July 20, 2026 Read →
A parent slumped on a couch holding a phone in one hand and a tall insulated tumbler in the other, a toddler asleep across their lap and a cat curled up beside them.
Postpartum Tips

The Water Bottle

Someone who loves you will hand you the enormous bottle with the time markers down the side and tell you your milk...

July 17, 2026 Read →
A baby in a high chair eating cake with both hands, food spread across the tray
Postpartum Tips

Starting Solids

Purees in 1987, baby-led weaning delivered like a religious conversion, the allergen protocol arriving unprompted in the group chat at 9pm. Nobody...

July 13, 2026 Read →
A parent holding a sleeping newborn upright against her chest in a sunlit room
Postpartum Tips

Why Your Baby Won’t Sleep

They spent their entire existence somewhere warm and dark with no edges, and the first thing we ask is that they lie...

July 6, 2026 Read →