Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 1:31PM 
In this month's column for The Life Change Network, I write about new parent jitters and how to feel more confident -- or at least a little less uncertain -- about taking on the most important job in the world -- being someone's mom or dad.
new parent, worries in parenting, postpartum Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 1:50PM I have a new article up at The Life Change Network: It's called The Secret to Loving Your Post-Baby Life: Going with the Flow.
Here's a brief snippet:
It is so much easier to go with the flow: to accept the fact that you’re living in a baby-centered universe right now. That means meeting the needs of your newborn, taking the best possible care of yourself (you’re your baby’s support system, after all), and allowing other people to take care of you.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 1:16PM 
It’s one thing to want to have a baby. It’s quite another thing to become a parent. I learned that lesson the hard way within weeks of giving birth to my first child.
Julie was everything I had dreamed of and so much more: a picture-perfect newborn who also happened to be colicky.
I would plead with her. “Just take a short nap. Please. I need to get some sleep.” But she was too little to understand and too wired to succumb to sleep herself. Each time she would cry, I would join in.
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