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Nursing and wounds

Breastfeeding with tween boys in the house is a tricky thing to wrangle. I wondered how they felt about it. I kept wondering. I tried to discern by their expressions and actions. I made assumptions, based on our long history of being a breastfeeding-friendly household.

Then it occurred to me to simply ask them. […]

Birth story

I figured it out.

When my husband and I kept hearing the song, “Don’t Bring Me Down” by ELO, we joked that we should name the baby Bruce. In retrospect, I think the message we were supposed to glean was “Don’t bring me down, Bruise.”

We got home from the hospital last Friday. […]

The adore

I’ll have a lot of fun with his name, based on the clever title for this post. Here are some photos I took of Theodore before we left the hospital. We came home yesterday.

I am still working on the birth story, which has been hard to corral into neat, punchy paragraphs.

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