Comments on Sticky Feet (Part Deux): Barren Bitches Book Tour: It Sucked and Then I Cri...

Having also read the book at 8 months pregnant, I ...

2009-10-13T23:59:48.971-05:00

Having also read the book at 8 months pregnant, I agree that it's probably a very different experience to read it at that point than it would have been pre-pregnancy (esp. during IF), earlier in pregnancy, post-birth... Few mothers of newborns have time to read, but reading it during pregnancy has probably freaked a lot of people out! Not us, of course. :)

Having also read the book at 8 months pregnant, I ...

2009-10-13T23:59:45.264-05:00

I total relate to going to the dollar store. I sta...

2009-10-13T14:31:10.565-05:00

I total relate to going to the dollar store. I started out just going to 7-11 for milk but I have graduated to Michael's - woohoo! It's my sanctuary. I could live there while imagining that I was Martha Stewart and scrapbooked day and night. I don't even need to buy anything!
I never imagined myself not going back to work either.

I so hear you about that need to go out at night, ...

2009-10-12T20:28:37.982-05:00

I so hear you about that need to go out at night, just to get out of the house and do it without kids. And that feeling of envy. Josh would go on a business trip and call home to tell me about how tired he was, but he still needed to go out to dinner. And all I could think of was how I couldn't leave the house with the twins, dinner was cereal, and I was exhausted to boot. Those first months are so hard. I think you will be able to have it all, perhaps not right now, but years in the future, you may find that life is humming along and you're balancing it "all."

Thanks for a great review! I do hope you manage to...

2009-10-12T18:08:45.879-05:00

Thanks for a great review! I do hope you manage to find that time for yourself when your husband goes back to work. I think all of us, no matter what our family situations, need some "me alone time" occasionally!

I also participated in the Book Tour and appreciat...

2009-10-12T14:53:26.022-05:00

I also participated in the Book Tour and appreciate your comments.

I related to how you said YOU changed as a result of having your first child. I did too! I went from being a more than full time career woman, to a part-time work at home mom.

I also had a singleton and then twins (17 months apart). So I was very busy those early years. But having a sense of what new babies meant and having already transitioned to being home, adding the twins wasn't nearly the transition of going from no babies to one.

Thanks for your insights and for sharing your personal stories. I appreciate it!

Great review Jamie. Thanks for sharing.

2009-10-12T10:55:21.597-05:00

Great review Jamie. Thanks for sharing.