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Army Crawls and Baby Dolls (opens the original)
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I cried today. A laughing through tears, blubbery cry while trying to not make noise because I didn’t want to distract Phoebe from what she was doing. And what she was doing was play feeding a bottle to a baby doll. This was a milestone. And milestones often come a little later for babies with Down syndrome. When Phoebe turned one family and friends started asking me if she was walking. I would explain that she wasn’t but she was army crawling like a pro. And for those closer to us I would expla
So, Here We Are (opens the original)
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I sit up in bed, late at night. I should be sleeping. Next to me, my five (almost six) year old. And on the other side, in her pack and play, my 16 month old. Her first year she slept so well. Far better than my son did. But just before her first birthday she began waking 2-4 times a night and with that I have been waking 2-4 times a night. I’m sleep deprived. But this is my only time to be alone and so I often stay up later than I should. At the foot of my bed is my 15 year old Italian Greyhoun
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