From the category archives:

Another baby?

Third time?

by Lyn March 20, 2011

Things have been quiet around here for a while. There’s a reason. Much of our parenting/family wavelength for the last 6-12 months has been taken up deciding if we want to try for a third child. This blog is not really anonymous (anymore, it was when we were trying for Ira). Plenty of our real [...]

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Sharing Lactation, Part I

by Gail June 21, 2009

Either Sunday or Monday, I am finally going to take the plunge and begin nursing Ira. At this point, I’m pumping about 10-13 ounces a day, or a little over 2 ounces each time I pump (5x daily). This isn’t enough to be the sole milk supplier, but it is enough to feed half of [...]

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Monday morning quarterback

by Gail June 3, 2009

It’s really difficult to sit down and write about something as life-changing and intense as the birth of your son. I could write down a blow-by-blow of events from my point of view, but the more I talk about what happens the more ordinary the events seem and the further away the actual experience of [...]

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“Is this your first child?”

by Lyn April 30, 2009

This isn’t an easy question to answer. In a medical situation, the relevant answer is “Yes” since they need to know I’ve never been pregnant before, but I refuse not to claim my first daughter, and if I don’t mention her, I miss out on all of the great bonding conversation over how cute and [...]

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A family divided

by Gail January 11, 2009

Even before Lyn became pregnant, we were concerned about the impact that a new child, genetically and physically connected to Lyn, would have on the unity of our entire family. In switching to another birth mother, would we run the risk of splitting our family in two, each of us having our “own” child? Physically, [...]

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