Babies also go through growth changes (mentally and physically) that you may not recognize when they’re little. For example, my two-year-old is a good sleeper* (2-3hr nap, 11 hrs overnight), but the past few days he has been refusing to go down for a nap or just doing 1hr. I now understand that he’s having a mental…

Right??? I’m so fucking bitter every time someone tells me their baby is “such a great sleeper”. Fuck you. I didn’t get more than 3 hours straight till my daughter was about 4 months and she learned to suck her thumb. The sleep sheep bought me ANY sleep after a hellish first week and a half. I do not want to hear it.

I was SO lucky with baby #1, she was a heavy night sleeper that I had to wake to feed those first few weeks. But she was a HORRIBLE napper, would only fall asleep in the carrier, on the boob, or a combination of the two. And then, at around 8 months, she started waking twice a night and could only fall back asleep on…

Also those who say you can train a newborn are all wrong. Training implies that the baby can learn something. The first few months they are going by the instinct of hunger, tiredness, etc. They are not trying to trick you or play games.

The Baby Whisperer was the rage when I had my first. In that book, she says it may take up to a month! of “shush-patting” your child to sleep before the baby is trained to fall asleep alone and you just need to stick with it.

I thought Baby #1 was a bad sleeper until Baby #2 came around and said HAHA JOKES ON YOU IM GONNA BE EVEN WORSE

Although I have always wondered how it’s legal for parents of newborns to drive.

Every child is different. There is no magic solution. Some kids are great sleepers, some are terrible sleepers. You will all survive but it will suck for 3-23 months.

The end of this piece really nails it. The first few months are hard anyways but I doubt the industry would be so huge and so goddamn expensive if parents weren’t driven to extra desperation by having to both work so soon.

Yep. Just accept that it sucks and you have to deal with it.

For me it really was about managing expectations. Once I resigned myself (in the shock and haze of the first 6 weeks) to the fact that my baby was going to wake up every 1-2 hours because she was hungry, I felt a little less desperate and hysterical. I also kept repeating the mantra to myself that “millions of parents…

Thode first few months are the worst. Even worse are the parents who somehow won the lottery and their kids magically started sleeping through the night super early. “Oh my baby sleeps 13 hours every night at 3 months? What are you doing at home?” AHHHHH SHOVE IT

Kid Electron didn’t sleep for the first two years. For the first year, she had to be held in an upright position. After her first birthday, she would deign to be laid down, but I had to be next to her, and she was up every 90 minutes. The sleep deprivation and PPD broke me. There are so many sleep books on my kindle…

As a dad of three, I can offer the only advice you need to know: Everyone else’s advice is wrong when applied to your baby.

My kid didn’t sleep through the night until she was over a year old. We finally moved her to her own room after co-sleeping. I swear I wish I would have done it sooner. The best sleep advice I can give is lean into the misery, the more I tried to fight it, the more frustrated I became. The pacifier helped, the rocking…

By that standard, anyone who’s done unChristian things (in the context of a marriage or in life) is disqualified from walking anyone down the aisle. Failed adherence to one tradition makes it inconceivable for someone to participate in any tradition. Meghan is divorced—some Christians would argue that she’s…

It must stick in her craw but good that the daughter of the black woman that she would refer to as “the maid,” is living her best life. Megan’s mom is welcome to the wedding, she’s the Mother of the Bride at her daughter’s wedding to Royalty. Her daughter, the actress (she was actually working at her craft, in…

That’s a good point. I admittedly don’t get it, but maybe she wanted to simply watch her daughter’s wedding, rather than participate in such a public way.

When my daughter was inducted into National Junior Honor Society this year, I started to notice that the boys walked in alone, but the girls were all escorted by the boys. OH HELL NO! I was so irate, but I tried to set it aside for the moment, so that I could enjoy a proud moment for my daughter who had worked so…

My guess is that her mother didn’t want to do it - so far it appears that she is a woman who does not court nor welcome press attention (who could blame her). Meghan is quite used to being leered at/ scrutinized by the general public. Her mother is not.