You Have Plenty of Time to Love Them Later

Unsolicited Advice for the Mothers of Newborns

Summer Block
Published in
8 min readJan 7, 2015

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By Summer Block

1. It’s only .004% of your life.

If I could only say one thing to every pregnant woman out there, it would be this: it’s only a short time. The sleeplessness and the feeding and the crying and the leaking and the general overwhelming crappiness, it…

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Summer Block
Human Parts

Writer for Catapult, Longreads, The Awl, The Toast, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s, and so on. Owner of After-Party Taxidermy. Working on a book about Halloween.