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This blog chronicles the adventures of two Washington D.C.-based lawyers and their baby daughter ("Billable Baby"). Read more about us here.

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Recent Docket Entries

Reflections on the First 200 Billable Hours After Parental Leave
Parenting Performance Evaluations (4 Months)
How I'm Feeling on the Eve of My Return to Work
Fire, Flood, and a Month-Long Hospitalization: Making Sense of Billable Baby's Birth Story
Everything I Learned about PPROM (Preterm Premature Rupture of the Membranes)

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Two hundred hours--that's a busy month for some of

Two hundred hours--that's a busy month for some of you; a slow month for others. To maintain some semblance of privacy, I will leave ambiguous the number of days it took me to hit this threshold. In my new blog post (link in bio and below), I wrote about my work setup, pumping, child care, time with my baby and my husband, and the search for the elusive work-life balance. For those of you who recently returned to work, how are you feeling? For those of you have have been at work for a while, got any tips to share?

https://billablebaby.com/archives/reflections-on-the-first-200-billable-hours-after-parental-leave/

New blog post (link in bio)! As a Type A person wh

New blog post (link in bio)! As a Type A person who thrives on external validation, I find the newborn stage particularly challenging because there is often zero feedback on how I'm doing as a new parent. To address this void, my husband and I decided to write parenting performance evaluations for each other!

Here are the questions we answered:
1. Things my partner is really good at.
2. Qualities that make my partner a great parent.
3. Areas of improvement that might bring my partner greater happiness.
4. What our baby loves the most about my partner.
5. One thing I'm glad my partner does so I don't have to think about it.
6. How parenthood has changed my partner.

Back to work tomorrow! New blog post (link in bio)

Back to work tomorrow! New blog post (link in bio). On the final night of my maternity leave, I share ALL of my feelings. Special guest blurb appearance by my husband at the end!

“It all started with a fire. A flood followed, p

“It all started with a fire. A flood followed, perhaps foreshadowing a rush of water of a very different kind. Over and over again, I found myself telling the story of the birth of my daughter. The story flows out, in drips and dribbles at first: a pause, a sigh, and a hint at a difficult experience. And then, with a gentle prompt or a curious question, the rest of it pours out in relentless, crashing waves.”

I initially started writing about the circumstances of Billable Baby’s birth as a coping mechanism, with no intention of posting it publicly. I wrote in fits and starts over several months, in between her naps, after middle of the night feeds, and during endless pump sessions. I truly believe in the healing power of words, and in this case, every word I typed lifted a little bit of weight off of me. Since I have greatly benefited from many of your honest, frank, and often hilarious posts on parenthood, I thought I would share my story, in the hopes that it might help someone else out there. Link in bio.

For those of you who have experienced recent life upheavals with circumstances outside of your control, how did you cope? How are you doing today?

I initially thought that my experience feeding Bil

I initially thought that my experience feeding Billable Baby was, to put it mildly, a HOT MESS. As a NICU baby and a preemie, Billable Baby was formula-fed in the beginning. After she came home, she drank formula and expressed milk. After my milk came in fully, she breastfed during the day and at times drank pumped milk from bottles at night. Then, she had nursing strikes and we switched to bottles during the day and nursing at night (if she latches). Having basically experienced every method of feeding a baby on any given day (exclusively formula, exclusively breastfeed, exclusively pumping, combo feeding, triple feeding, quadruple feeding—JK that’s not a thing), I realized that the grass is not always greener on the other side and that there are trade-offs and hidden costs for every method. It took four months, but I finally recognized that my breastfeeding/pumping journey is not a “hot mess”. Rather, it was a blessing for me to have experienced EVERYTHING. I have no idea what next week brings. For this week at least, I’m proud of the 700 minutes I pumped and the chubby little nugget that Billable Baby has become. #breastfeeding #breastfeedingmom #breastfeedingjourney #pumpingmom #exclusivepumping #newborn #breastpump #newmom #lawyermom #lawyermomlife #newparents #triplefeed #pumpingmama #pumpingmilk #combofeeding #triplefeed

New blog post! Link in bio. Do you remember how mu

New blog post! Link in bio. Do you remember how much sleep you got when you brought a newborn home? When I asked my friends this, everyone said the newborn phase was a total blur. Since I’m obsessed with data, I used my Apple Watch to track my sleep over the last three months of Billable Baby’s life. Swipe ➡️ to see how much sleep I got during the last week of my pregnancy (I was being monitored in the hospital that whole week), Billable Baby’s first full week home, and then 1️⃣ month, 2️⃣ months, and 3️⃣ months later. These days, I feel so refreshed in comparison to that first week when we had no idea what we were doing and no help raising a baby in a pandemic. To the parents out there, how are you sleeping these days? #babysleep #newborn #pregnancy #pandemicbaby #pandemicpregnancy #sleepdeprived #newmoon #newparents #lawyermom #lawyermomlife #sleeptraining #allnighter #sleeptracker #dcmoms #dcmom #dcmomsblog #mommyblogger

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