Where the Child Things Are
BUN IN THE
OVEN by Kyle Determan
It seems like yesterday 605 Magazine’s Publisher & Founder Alana Snyder was asking me if I wanted to write the family column, seeing as I had just returned from maternity leave with Sloan. It was a no-brainer, but as soon as I said yes, I was paralyzed with fear that I was unqualified to write about parenting, kids, and the transition into motherhood. I was a fraud. Sloan was only a couple of months old, no one was sleeping, and I felt like I was failing in all aspects of the word. Shouldn’t someone with a designer diaper bag and a degree in swaddling be in charge of this? All of these doubts were quieted when I realized that everyone starts from the same place—buried in a mountain of dirty diapers and parenting handbooks, attempting to navigate the storm that is a newborn.
