Stephanie Klein's Greek Tragedy

Stephanie Klein on Rachael Ray Show

For those who may have stumbled onto my site after seeing the Rachael Ray Show, welcome! I’m a mother to toddler twins (who arrived 10 weeks early!), an author, a photographer, a fat camp champ, a…

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is “special needs” a retarded term?

The panelists introduced themselves, each sharing a small story that identified them as mothers of NICU twins, of a child with down syndrome, of a son with autism. Hearing one mother of an autistic child share a story of…

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preemie babies: they are… and they aren’t.

I felt myself holding back tears at dinner. We went out tonight with a couple whose child is in the NICU. I wanted to show them how much we understood without making it about us and what we’d been through.…

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pump and dump

This time last year I was not a wife.  I was not pregnant.  I was not a published author.  I was living in New York.  A year later and I’m living in Texas, married, published, with a son and a…

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baby babble

I’m exhausted and unsure if it’s this new medicine, taken three times a day, or if it’s my pumping every two hours (except for at night, when I sleep uninterrupted only for four hours).  When I first announced…

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milk pail fail

I don’t care whether or not I go to the hospital today.  I will go, of course, because my brain says I have to, but the rest of me just shrugs and shakes her head ‘no.’ Then cries.  Lucas and…

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quite common

“This is just what preemies go through, so expect a windy road, and try not to get too confident on the ups or too upset during the downs.”  Mix this advice up with some “You’re a fighter, and so are…

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