A retrospective on year one of parenthood - Central Penn Business Journal

Central Penn Business Journal

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A retrospective on year one of parenthood - Central Penn Business Journal

I’ve been a parent for 13 months. It’s simultaneously strange and natural to see it written. Saying I have a child doesn’t feel nearly as foreign as it did early on, but I still have moments where I try to process the shift in my life where every month seems like a big event. This is a new period of parenthood where I am asking myself a lot of rhetorical questions. Are we still “new” parents? Is he even a baby anymore? How did it all happen so f…