When the Kid Gets Sick: Five Stages
May 26th, 2023 | by Dana Perry
starve a fever and feed a cold (or maybe it’s the other way around?)
Browsing the "Sleep" Tag
Write When the Baby Writes
April 27th, 2023 | by Jill Kolongowski
you won't even remember this in a few years
The Nighttime Arms Race
April 18th, 2023 | by Teresa Douglas
Tonight, I’ll gladly exchange sleep for sex with my husband
First Unbroken Sleep
June 13th, 2022 | by Anna Laura Reeve
After four and a half hours of unbroken sleep I feel like a swan The ‘trying to
Second Breath
March 23rd, 2021 | by Danielle LaSusa
It is our first night home from the hospital. Or maybe it’s the second, or the fourth, or the fourteenth.
Praise to Bedtime During a Pandemic
March 16th, 2021 | by Ginny Wiehardt
Ode to lavender lotion, to the Alice in Wonderland recordedforty years ago, to my son’s drooping eyelids, my computer’s backlit keys, my tapping fingers tempted
Poop
February 11th, 2021 | by Brianna Avenia-Tapper
Maybe we are meant to love other people this way. Knowing that sometimes they will bite us, and we will have to tell them sternly that we do not want to be bitten
Sleepwalking
July 14th, 2020 | by Allison Fagan
You have to wait for them to break the surface on their own; no use trying to reach down to pull them up
Taking Time
July 7th, 2020 | by Christina Yovovich
I gave up my writing right away. One day I was a writer who wrote while her child was at school, the next I was I pandemic parent, focused solely on making her child feel things were going to be okay.
In so many blinks of an eye
March 9th, 2020 | by Zhenya Bourova
It is 8.46am when I see you for the first time, impossibly small and slick with blood as they hand you to me in the operating theatre.