Someone asked a question about preparing your dog for the baby. This will be long. But it’s important. One of the biggest things is to change as much as you can well before the baby arrives, so the dog doesn’t associate this change with the baby. Think about where your baby is going to spend [...]

In my early twenties I didn’t sleep much. I worked and I partied and slept when I could. I believe that in your early twenties your body is okay with just getting sleep when you can grab it. That’s when you’re (apparently) supposed to have kids. When sleep isn’t that important. Of course, never mind [...]

We did a lot of educating of family members while we were waiting last time. It was a long wait back then, too, so we had plenty of time. I pointed out that family members may not understand some of the things we would need to do. That they would see us treating a one [...]

When I started the ISOrumors site I occasionally posted items other than rumors. But things have changed over there (in a good way, I love all of the information we can gather together as a group), and I’d like to have a place to talk about general parenting issues (with some adoption stuff here and [...]