baby #2

When I announced I was pregnant the first time everyone I knew was excited. They wanted to know everything. When was I due? Was I going to find out the gender? Did I have names picked out? Was I going to have a baby shower? Did I need anything before the baby arrived? When it […]

5 years ago

After having decided that I was clearly made for motherhood by the time my little girl was two, I persuaded my then boyfriend (now husband) into making another one.  Clearly, we are also made for making babies, because it was (another) tried-once-got-pregnant kind of a job, and just like that, baby #2 was on the […]

7 years ago

When I found out that I was pregnant the first time (after the shock of my utterly unplanned pregnancy had settled!), it was nothing short of amazing. I was a goddess, creating life in the most magical, masterful, mysterious way. Seriously, being pregnant the first time around is BLISS. Everyone encourages you to pamper yourself […]

7 years ago

Just to clarify, I have in no way nailed this parenting business the second time around. However, I have noticed some marked differences between the babyhood of my second child and that of my first. With my first baby, I spent the first six months waiting and waiting and waiting for things to ‘settle down’. […]

9 years ago

What a unique name

9 years ago

One of the moments I remember most clearly after having given birth to my baby boy, was when his big sister was brought into the room to meet her little brother for the first time and I realized that she was no longer my only baby. Much as it was the most beautiful thing, seeing […]

10 years ago