ready Archives - Barbara Buckner Suárez

No Big Deal?

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester, Second Baby

When you become a parent for the SECOND time an interesting thing happens. Everyone around you is like, “Yay! You’re going to have another baby! How exciting!” And then… crickets! There’s an assumption that because you’ve done this thing once before, there’s really no...

New Parenting… Exciting, Scary or Both?

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | parenting

I’m sitting in the wheelchair at the hospital entrance waiting for Roberto to bring the car around ready to make the short trip home with our new little baby. I am terrified. Jokingly, I whip out one of my credit cards and tell the sweet nurse who was waiting with me,...

Get A Move On

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | vulnerability

Why is it when a couple finds themselves pregnant they decide that while they’re in the midst of creating another human being it also makes perfect sense to move? Or remodel their homes? Or take a new job that’s halfway across the country? In every class that I’ve...