Dear Pre-Baby Me: When you and your spouse bring your newborn home from the hospital, you’ll be prepared for your world to change. What you won’t be expecting, though, is how your marriage will change after you have a baby. After several years with your spouse, you’ll feel as though you have […]
Dear Pre-Baby Me: In my last letter, I gave you the goods on labor and birth, so it seems only fitting to follow it up with this next topic: prepare to hear the ugly truth about postpartum recovery. So, you’ll have just given birth — congratulations! — and you’ll be dying […]
Dear Pre-Baby Me: Your prenatal class will spend a lot of time talking about birth plans. After weighing your options and talking to your midwife, you’ll confidently state that your birth plan is to give birth, and also try not to freak out about it too much. Late in your third trimester, though, someone will loan you […]
Dear Pre-Baby Me, Here are a few things you swear you’ll never do as a parent: You will never co-sleep with your baby. You will never let your baby eat sugar or processed foods or anything that contains ingredients that sound like they might have come from a lab. You will […]
Dear Pre-Baby Me: Shopping for a new baby will be overwhelming. Google “what to buy for a new baby” and you will come up with approximately three hundred quadrillion results. Your browser history will be peppered with articles like “Newborn Essentials You Can’t Live Without!”, “952 Items You Absolutely Must Buy Before Your Baby Is Born,” and […]
Dear Pre-Baby Me: So you want to breastfeed your future baby. Good for you! You should do it. If you can, I mean. Not everyone is able to, and that’s okay. Not everyone wants to, either, and that’s also okay. Here’s what no one tells you about breastfeeding, though: it’s fucking hard. Wait, […]
Dear Pre-Baby Me: I’m just going to cut to the chase here: Google is the Enemy. I know — you love Google. Google’s your favourite! In fact, back when you worked at that job you hated with the coworkers you adored, said coworkers had a running joke whenever a debate […]
Dear Pre-Baby Me: There’s this thing you’ve been hearing from people lately. Good people. Well-meaning people. People you love, people you respect, and even people you don’t even know. They all say the same thing: “You don’t know what love is until you have a child.” It’s a lovely notion, isn’t […]