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.
No Judgment Zone: Pain Management, Feeding Method, and Other Choices People Love to Question
“How was the birth???” <long pause> Pain Management A lot of People think they’re entitled to an opinion on how your family...
I Swear, He’s Manipulating Me
Everyone’s heard it. Everyone, at some point, has probably thought it. After the fifteenth time you lower him – ever so carefully...
What people feed the postpartum body
Every culture seems to have had an opinion about what a person should eat in the weeks after birth, and the opinions...
< A Little While Later >
When my sister came home, I had been prepared by the Little Critter books. The New Baby was the book on the...
The Opinions
A parent tells me they’re going to let their baby cry it out, and I can feel my opinion rising before they’ve...
The Water Bottle
Somebody will hand you the giant water bottle. It happens at some point while you’re sitting on the couch with a baby...
Starting Solids
Somebody’s mother-in-law has Opinions about purees, the kind delivered as a story about how she did it in 1987 and everyone survived,...
Why Your Baby Won’t Sleep
Your baby has spent their entire existence in a space that was warm and dark and moved with you, fluid pressing in...
How are you holding up? (A belated Father’s Day post)
Everyone who visits a new baby has the same script. How’s mama doing, is she sleeping, does she need anything, can I...
How To Visit A Baby
If you ask a new parent what they need, you’ll get “nothing, we’re fine” or a long pause. New parents don’t even...