January 13, 2026 Dear Sophia, At about 1:30am on January 10, early Saturday morning, your mom awoke me and said she thought her water might have broken. She tried a test swab but didn’t use it right, apparently, so we…
February 11, 2026 Dear Sophia, I know I shouldn’t anthropomorphize you, but sometimes I think you are almost like a human and you know very well that you are on the changing table, and you wait until I finish tickling…
Wednesday January 14, 2026 Dear Sophia, We woke about three times last night and got you up. We consulted ChatGPT about whether to get you up when you were sleeping and it said yes if about two hours have gone…
January 13, 2026 Dear Sophia, You’ve got a tag on your foot, which I believe means you’re on parole. “Her heart rate is perfectly regular,” says the perfectly lovely pediatrician. I cried when I got my German cousin Fiona’s responses…
January 10, 2026 Dear Sophia, It’s still dark in the early morning, and with my hand palming your mother’s belly like a basketball, I can feel you kicking. Are you exercising in there? Are you expressing yourself? Your mom walked…
January 9, 2026 Dear Sophia, Got up a bit late, holding your mother, talking to her, feeling grateful to be with her. Everything happening now is because of her. I was feeling the feelings a moment ago, as I tried…
January 8, 2026 Dear Sophie-to-be, Your very pregnant mother was feeling unfamiliar pain last night, and that made her anxious. Just because she didn’t know what was happening. She felt it again in the middle of the night but she…