Irene was off on a trip, and many new questions came into play: how was baby Leรณn going to sleep when he had never known bottle nor dummy? How was he going to sleep without the breast at 21 months? What was going to happen to Lorenzo, aged five, to have to wait for me to put his little brother to sleep first?
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โThe problem with the research isnโt the way it presents caregiving as a burden, but how it presents it only as a burden, with little curiosity on what makes it a burden, and even less on what makes it an opportunity.โ
Elissa Strauss in When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others