Did you make the same mistake as I did and only read pregnancy books while pregnant? I didn’t find my two favorite books about baby’s (Babywise, and The Wonder Weeks book) until about a month before I was due… I remember it vividly- I was finally pregnant, and I happened to be at Target. I …
Leaps and Milestones
Dear Leap 10, Thank you for coming, and thank you for leaving! During your presence my daughter experienced real tantrums. Screaming, flailing, biting, fists tight and arms shaking tantrums. And they are lengthy, too! For “no” reason. Obviously not to her…. her world was ending in the moment. These tantrums were due to two things: …
It is amazing how much time goes by from one leap to the next. The duration of and between each leap is so lengthy that it almost seems impossible for only one leap to have occurred since I last wrote about leap 6 back in August! Leap 6 brought a large set of skills to …
In the first month of Caroline’s life, another mama that I had been talking to introduced me to the Wonder Weeks. If you haven’t heard of this before, the quick version is that every baby goes through the same mental developments around the same time in their lives. They experience sudden changes in their mental …