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...after Armstrong became one of the first bloggers fired for writing about her employer on the Internet. But now that she is a self-employed, stay-at-home mother, most of her entries are about her family. In 2004 Armstrong gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Leta, and she used her blog to chronicle her pregnancy, postpartum depression, and all the little things that no one bothers to tell new mothers until it's too late. It Sucked and Then I Cried is a memoir of the first nine months of her daughter's life, Armstrong...
...when you were pregnant that turned out not to be true? There's once piece of advice that people love to give and I'd seriously love for it to be outlawed. Parents go, "Oh, you'll be fine, you'll just sleep when the baby sleeps." I remember Leta being about two months old and someone said that to me. I almost punched her in the face. It's not possible. She'd take a cat nap and wake up in 15 minutes later, how am I supposed to sleep for exactly those 15 minutes...
...have completely shifted now that she's older. In the beginning I was simply chronicling what every parent goes through. Most children's stories between the ages of 0-3 are really similar. Everyone's screaming and crying and pooping, it's the universal story of living. But as Leta becomes more unique, a real person, I find myself more and more guarded about what I will and will not share about her. If there ever comes a time when she asks me to stop writing about her, I would absolutely do that...
...pain? Definitely. Even during the darkest, bleakest, worst part of it I still had this beautiful chubby, delicious baby that I never knew I could love so much. I remember the noises she's make and her smell and the way she's sit up. I would never trade Leta for anything, but it's still very hard. Everyone tells you that having a new baby is the most awesome, memorable experience and you'll never be the same again and it's true, you won't be, but not in the way that you think...
...fountain-of-youth allure is quickly gaining facial yoga a following in health clubs and yoga studios across the U.S. Leta Koontz holds Fresh Face Yoga workshops at her Pittsburgh studio for a mostly female clientele that ranges in age from 30 to 70. Koontz packs her sessions with inversion positions, arguing that keeping the head lower than the heart increases youth-giving blood flow to the face. "It's like natural Botox," she says. "Stress shows on our face, probably more than any other place on our body...