Posts under ‘Parenthood’

We knew early on that we definitely wanted to sign with Pooky. Using sign language with babies is a great way to teach them to communicate with you physically before they’re able to verbally. Our hope was that, instead of crying out in frustration, Pooky would eventually sign to us that she was hungry, needed [...]

The state of our little family, in the style of Time Magazine’s Milestones section. Just because.
Freaked Out: Us, about putting Pooky in day care when May goes back to work. We’ve visited one place so far and are discouraged. It seemed dirty, disorganized, and, with a dog running around freely, a little bit dangerous. Plus, [...]

It’s always nerve-wracking when we’re both away from baby. We’re still the only two people she’s totally comfortable with, so we know that the situation will be stressful for her (by “stressful for her”, I mean she’ll cry and scream). Of course, that makes it stressful for the babysitter, and the whole thing is stressful [...]

Sometimes I can’t believe how quickly Pooky is growing up. Other times, it seems like an eternity has passed since her first few days when all she did was eat, sleep, cry and poop. She just does so much cool stuff now. I can’t get over it.
Last night she took another big step when, for [...]

A New York Times essay from a few weeks ago, entitled What?s Making Us Sick Is an Epidemic of Diagnoses, is causing a bit of a stir, at least in the pediatrics blogging community. The three docs who authored the essay argue that the medical community has become overzealous in diagnosing disease. They write:
Perhaps most [...]

Pooky still isn’t “crawling” yet, but she’s certainly getting around. She rolls, slithers, scooches, and rolls to where she wants to go. One of her new tricks is crawling (or sliding) backwards until she’s under the couch. When she first started doing this, she would startle herself with the inability to move backwards any further, [...]

I think Pooky’s development has suddenly accelerated. As I wrote a little bit ago, she just started learning to crawl. She hasn’t quite mastered it yet, but she’s making progress. Now, suddenly, she’s learned three new tricks, all involving the hands. The first, which we’ve been practicing for months, is the bye bye wave. It [...]

Elisha Cooper is the author of several award-winning books. His latest, Crawling: A Father’s First Year, is a collection of essays about his first year as a father.
Elisha lives in Chicago “on a small street in Lincoln Park near the zoo” and has “two wild daughters, Zoë and Mia, ages four and two.” When asked [...]

Now that we’re approaching our first child’s first birthday, I can take a look back at the year that was and smile, happy and grateful for so many things. Most importantly, for the fact that we managed to keep our little bundle alive, but also for all the joy we’ve had and for all we’ve [...]

Steve over at Inside Fatherhood writes about his home birth experiences with his wife. He’s been through four home births, with number five on the way any day now. He’s open to questions about it if you have any.
InstantVang at Rice Daddies sums up the recent controversy over a $25,000 scholarship that wasn’t awarded to [...]