Mom Fail: Airline Edition
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It’s January. We’re 9 months in. He reaches for the tissue box and looks back at me, already aware that I’m…
Rite of Passage: Stroller Shopping
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I can still remember the day my husband and I went to Buy Buy Baby to look at strollers. We walk…
The Lactation Room, Part 3
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It’s the moment of truth: the end of the semester, my students have their concert, and I’m heading to the official…
The Lactation Room, Part 2
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So I’ve made it for about 7 months without actually using the Lactation Room on campus, in part because I never…
The “Lactation Room,” Part 1
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A few weeks into our “breastfeeding journey,” some 9 or 10 months ago now, I find out there’s a form I…
A Very Merry Chippendales Birthday
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So it’s mid-February, I’m home sick, and I’m watching trashy reality shows on Netflix while planning my kid’s first birthday (because…
Breastfeeding and Rocket Ships
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In the early days of breastfeeding, establishing a “good latch” is kind of like refueling a spaceship in midair: it’s a…
Mum’s the Word
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He slept for 5 hours! And then another 4! We’re just a month in when it happens for the first time…
Bundle of Boy
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It’s 6:00am. And you don’t even mind that it’s 6:00am because 6:00am is better than 5:00am, and what’s more, your little…
Baby Carriers and the So-called Caravan
What’s killing me the most is the photos: not just bodies crammed onto bridges or flatbeds trucks, or sprawled along the roadside with nothing more than…
#MeToo and Matrescence at the Gas Pump
A few weeks ago, while I was pumping gas and thinking through about a million and one different things on my way into work, the man…
I think we might be “Glamping”
“Free wi-fi” doesn’t really mean free wi-fi in the great American southwest. It means if you stand on one foot, cross your eyes, stick out your…
Kat Echevarría Richter 