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Libby Copeland May 9, 2010
Head Over Heels in Love with Baby Olive

Head Over Heels in Love with Baby Olive

Originally Published: Washington Post • May 9, 2010 

Of the many articles I wrote for the Post, this op-ed, about the strange way time shifts when you have a child, got the greatest flood of reader emails.

We don’t have time. I’m terribly conscious of it. Every moment is gone as I notice it. In our old lives all we had was time — wasted time, long evenings, late mornings. But now: Isn’t it strange how time compresses, how you can be nostalgic for a thing even as you’re in the midst of it? I’ve never been so aware of how unstable life is, how it never pauses, not even for a night. In her sleep she is growing. In the middle of the night she pulls herself up to stand for the first time, and can’t get down. She cries. My husband goes in to save her.

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Categories: Parenting, Personal Essay, Washington Post Tags: babies, motherhood, parenting

Libby Copeland

Libby Copeland is an award-winning journalist who writes about culture, science and human behavior.
Her book, The Lost Family published March 3, 2020, looks at the impact of home DNA testing on the American family (sign up below for updates and events). A staff reporter and editor for The Washington Post for over a decade, she now writes from New York for publications including Slate, New York Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times, The New Republic, Fast Company, The Atlantic, Glamour and more. As a staffer at The Washington Post, she wrote feature stories from the 2008 presidential trail, the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, and the 2005 Michael Jackson molestation trial. Copeland has appeared on MSNBC, CNN and NPR. Read More…

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