About 4 weeks in to paternity leave, my husband took a call from a recruiter. I was home, but he was in charge of the baby while I took a bath or stared aimlessly at my closet or something. The baby started crying, and this man said: “I’m sorry, that’s my newborn crying. I’ll call…
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(Mama) Therapy Thursday: What do you need?
When the baby is screaming crying, I hug her and kiss her face and ask her “what do you need?” I hold her closer, knowing innately that this isn’t about me, it’s about her. She can’t even tell me what she needs, and I give her this grace … or maybe because she can’t tell…