Written by parents, not by us. The winters that went badly, the habits that finally worked, the advice they wish someone had given them earlier.
“A story here may describe a remedy or a routine that worked for one family. Publishing it is not an endorsement, and it is not a recommendation.”
These pages exist so parents have an honest place to talk about raising their babies. What worked in one home is one family’s experience — for anything medical, your paediatrician is the right person to ask.
Last winter was the worst of it. She was seven months old and the skin behind her knees would go from fine to raw in about two days.
She came home at thirty-six weeks and I was frightened of her. Not of holding her, exactly, but of doing anything to her.
Nobody told me it would happen in an afternoon. I thought it was something that built up over days.
My mother did it for me. I did it for him. In April it stopped making sense, and that was a difficult conversation.
Every story here was written by a parent, about their own child.