When I first had Lily, everyone told me to enjoy every moment of babyhood — because it would be over before I knew it.
It’s one of the many things you hear over and over from seasoned parents — they say that right after they say “sleep when the baby sleeps!”
(As an aside, apparently when they learn you are expecting a second child while sporting a toddler on your hip, those same seasoned parents don’t have as much advice. Instead, they look at you with a mixture of surprise and empathy and offer all the encouragement they can muster: “Wow. You’ll have your hands full.” Thus affirming the sneaking suspicion I had that there will be no sleeping when the baby sleeps this next go around.) Continue reading












