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What To Expect When You’re NOT Expecting (but wish you were)
I remember like it was yesterday. It was our first month of trying to conceive and, being the child whisperer that I am, there was no doubt in my mind that I wouldn’t be pregnant immediately once I...
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The First Ever Dirty and Thirty Poetry Slam
Parenting makes you silly. It’s the sleep deprivation, the constant role of entertainer to a little person with the attention span of a gnat, the close examination of poop’s consistency and color as...
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Confessions of a New Mommy
As I sit down to write this blog, I am trying to calm down a one month old baby who is crying nonstop -more like screaming- for attention, perhaps hunger, dirty diaper, who knows…When I believe he had...
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Traveling with an Infant: Oh, the Places We Went!
When I was pregnant, I wrote this piece about traveling with a baby after my husband’s Facebook friends got down on him for naively thinking it was possible. Now, after three trips in four weeks with...
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Dirty and Thirty’s Guide to Avoiding the Maternity Clothes Blues
Maternity clothes are fugly. Plain and simple. I’ve been repeatedly frustrated by my disappointing maternity wardrobe throughout my pregnancy. In one hormonally charged moment of emotional weakness, I...
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The Royal Baby’s first Gift to the World
My husband and I have had our baby names picked out for years. Our daughter’s name is very traditional, literary, and British in origin. If we ever have a son, his name is patriotic and historical....
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The Cost of Rising to the Top as a Mother
Now eight years in to my career, after multiple degrees and grad school, I’m starting to learn a thing or two about what it takes to make it to the top of a large firm: everything. The problem is,...
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Parental Discretion Advised.
We’re expecting. A baby boy. A baby boy that will have two Jewish mothers. Oy. Poor Thing. Or is it? Friends have said we are on to something. The something that their husbands lack. Being a woman....
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Scared? Just f%@#n do it!!
So there I was, ready to take on the deep open ocean waters; I only had to swim a quarter mile (about 16 pool laps), but the distance seemed greater. Four months before, just getting into a pool and...
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THE CO-PARENTING BEE-BOP AROUND HOLLYWOOD GAME
It feels so good to write again. Hard to believe I have let as much time go by as I have, but satisfied knowing life has continued to be kind and terrible and blissful and magical all the while,...
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