Category Archives: sister

Adjusting to life after Baby #2

Our newest baby girl is now 18 days old and life has been radically changed. For the first two weeks, my head was in a haze, a dark thick fog in which I was not quite present. We were up … Continue reading

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Love and Grace Times Two

“Every pregnancy is different,” so I’ve heard, and have now experienced.  When pregnant with my first baby, everything was new and exciting, curious and magical, and also terrifying.  Now 38 weeks into my second pregnancy, I sure don’t remember being … Continue reading

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Dear Baby

It was one month ago that my sister told me that the baby she had been carrying no longer had a heartbeat.  I was standing off in a corner of the Friendship Heights metro stop away from several other co-workers … Continue reading

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