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The stories of moms flushing newborns down airplane toilets or babysitters shaking a 6-week-old until they have brain damage bring me to tears. I. Just. Can’t. Handle. It.
Is it just me? Or have people seemed to have gotten so much less, well, human over the past few years?
I guess it’s true. Being a mom has made me fragile in ways I’d never imagined.
Since I had Kavya, I’ve become so hyper-sensitive to the dramas and traumas inflicted by the world around me. Stories I would have brushed off in …

TweetSo Kavi will be 3 months old next week. And lucky for me, I have the privilege of being able to work from home, so I’ve gotten to spend pretty much all day, every day with my little one.
But because I work for myself, I haven’t really had a maternity leave at all. And I’ve come to the realization that I really haven’t been away from the baby for more than a few hours.
This has been an adventure unlike any other I’ve had before. And it’s been really, …

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I got accepted to grad school yesterday. Shouldn’t I be more excited?
Before we started TTC, my husband and I talked about me going to get my MFA in creative writing, since writing (and selling) a novel is one of my major goals. And knowing me, I need the structure of a program. Plus, with an MFA, I could eventually teach to subsidize my writing habit. So I applied to three schools, all within a half-hour’s commute, all strong programs, all sure to motivate and …

TweetAbout two years ago, before my husband and I officially started TTC, I decided to work from home. In part, this was because of the way my industry was going — magazine publishers were blood-letting, much like many other American companies.
But it was also so I could pursue my dream job of writing novels and screenplays, a passion that was hard to indulge when I was putting in 60-plus hours at the office. In the back of our collective head, though, was also the thought …

TweetYesterday, my husband showed me the video he edited of our daughter’s birth. She was so tiny, so alert — and while she’s still clocking in on the small side at just under 9 lbs., she’s grown so much in such a short time. I can’t believe my little baby is already more than six weeks old. She’s already smiling! (Yes, on purpose.)
It makes you think, really, about time. And it had me wondering, what was I doing year ago today?
I had just started focusing …

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It’s been almost six weeks since my beautiful baby girl Kavya arrived, and I love every minute I’ve spent with her. But I have to say, it does feel like I’ve spent every minute of the last six weeks with her.
I didn’t really notice it in the first few weeks after she was born, since I had my mom, my mother-in-law, and various other relatives around to help me out.
But now that my husband and I are trying to settle in to our everyday, …