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6 New Mom Secrets
Kraus and his partner embarked on that time-honored, new-parent ritual: They worked their way through a checklist of possible discomforts (hungry, tired, wet, painedÉ) until they uncovered what their son needed. "The moment we started to bounce with him on an exercise ball, he was quiet," Kraus says. "It was magic!"
Elizabeth Lombardo, of Wexford, Pennsylvania, hardly had magic in mind when she first learned about The Witching Hour -- the daily period between 5 and 8 p.m. when her colicky infant cried uncontrollably. "No one warned me about this," she says. But perhaps, like many new moms, she just didn't want to believe her child had colic. "Baths, swaddling, rocking -- nothing worked." Then something did: the whir of the vacuum. "My husband and I turned it on just so we could have a conversation," she says. Who knew an appliance had such powers?
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Feeling better "down there" in 1-4 weeks?! Sounds delightful to me! I am 10 weeks out and still have issues! Between tearing, bleeding and swelling, etc, recovery was the most shocking part of having a baby!
3/19/2012 10:52:05 AM Report AbuseSorry, I understand that some people don't bond as quickly with their babies and that that is normal too, but just because she didn't doesn't give her or this magazine the right to belittle the experiences of those who, like me, WERE enamoured with their babies from the moment they beheld them. Fuzzy memory? No way. I remember those first moments/months with painful clarity and though they were hard, they were also wonderous and I will always cherish the clear memories of bonding with my girls.
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