My Computer Crashed
Shalom JewishMOMs! When I told my husband last week that my four weeks of maternity leave would be over this Shabbat, so I would be returning this coming Sunday to working every day on my blog, he quipped “Hmmm, only 4 weeks of maternity leave, you’ve got a tough boss!” But, in the end, my […]
Read MoreThe Emergency Room
I thought the reason Yaakov, my 3-week-old baby, was so miserable was because he had a hemorrhoid. But it wasn’t a hemorrhoid, my pediatrician informed me this past Sunday morning. It was a “perianal abscess” which meant a rushed trip to the emergency room. At the emergency room, the nurse took Yaakov’s pulse, temperature, and […]
Read MoreLarry King and the Rebbetzins (4-Minute Sweet Video)
Loved seeing Larry King wearing a kippa in this Chabad Telethon, and hearing about the lives and common mission of these Chabad Rebbetzins. I was especially happy to see Rebbetzin Racheli Muchnik interviewed in this video, since two years ago I posted a letter she wrote about her struggle with thyroid cancer. B”H, she looks […]
Read MoreMy 2 Birth Miracles
Miracle Number One I was lying in bed, terrified, panicking and thoroughly losing it the morning before I gave birth. Out of the blue, in the middle of my hysteria, I remembered a massage I received as an anonymous gift last winter. “Ooooooh, how I wish Zipporah would stop by to give me a massage […]
Read MoreMy 3 Tips for an Easier Birth
The morning before I gave birth I was a total wreck. I lay in bed exhausted and panic-stricken, ranting and raving to my husband about how: “I CANNOT, CANNOT, CANNOT give birth! I cannot handle the pain of labor! THIS TIME I am going to schedule an elective C-section! THIS TIME I’m going to get […]
Read MoreWaiting 27 Years for Baby Natan Yehuda
One of the things I love best about the days following giving birth is the opportunity to meet such a diverse collection of JewishMOMs at the hospital and then Recovery Center. It’s like entering a parallel universe where absolute strangers sit around together and shmooze and shmooze and shmooze about pregnancy and birth and motherhood. […]
Read MoreThe Amazing Story Behind My Baby’s Name
44 summers ago my mother’s mother, father, and grandmother were killed in a freak car accident. Since they died before I was even born, as a child I knew nothing about my grandparents (though I was named after my late maternal grandmother, Chana). And as a mother myself, I have never mentioned my deceased grandparents […]
Read MoreMazal Tov!
B”H, I am thrilled to have some wonderful news to share with all you JewishMOMs! The Friday before Succot I gave birth to a healthy baby boy. The bris was today and we named our newest son Yaakov Gedalya Chaim…There is an incredible story behind the name, looking forward to sharing it with all of […]
Read MoreMy Nachlaot Flight Simulator
“Chag Sameach” the pedophile greeted me this Yom Kippur morning. I didn’t respond. But his unanswered “Chag Sameach” got me ruminating on the holiest of days about the bizarre movie that Hashem placed me in this year. Well, not exactly a movie. But sort of. Let me explain to you how I’ve been thinking recently […]
Read MoreSuccot: A Hug from God (3-Minute Lori Palatnik Video)
Loved this! This quote made me smile so big: When you enter the Succah “the Almighty is saying ‘You worked hard! Come, let me give you a hug. Did you ever have a hard day? A hard week? A hard year? A hard life? The Almighty is saying ‘Here, let me help you. I know […]
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