Postpartum Fantasy #1

At five weeks old, both babies sleep through the night. Doug and I put them down at seven p.m., and they lie quietly in their crib for a few minutes before drifting peacefully off to sleep. They do not wake again until seven a.m. Doug and I put the older kids to bed...

Zombieland

After a week with both boys home, Doug and I are wandering around in a sleep-deprived torpor. The babies are up every couple of hours, and it takes an hour to warm their bottles, feed them, change them (we usually have to change each of them twice and sometimes three...

36D

There’s a Beautiful South song that’s been in my head all day: “36D, so what? D, so what? Is that all that you’ve got?” On the cover of the single is a lingerie model holding a watermelon. In my book, 36D does not qualify as a watermelon....

Pumping

We spent Sunday night at the hospital, rooming in with Luke. He had no monitors, no tubes, nothing to distinguish him from any other baby who is 38-weeks gestational age. Yesterday morning, we brought him home. Nice as it was to have both boys at what Doug calls the...