The Ladder

Beginnings -- Naming the Baby / Joyce M. Fischer -- Womb Music / Karen Howland -- Welcome to the World, Baby Girl / Jennifer Graf Groneberg -- El Producto / Peter Krok -- Not According to Plan / Susan Evans -- Bringing In / Lysa James -- Birth Choice / Norman Wasserman -- Paternal Punctuation / John Repp -- Partners / Charles Grosel -- How My Children Came to Me / Dennis Donoghue -- Love and Sleep / Malaina Neumann -- Masculinity Meets His Daughter / Todd W. Palmer -- New Mother Song / Robin Bradford -- With Child / Jennifer Graf Groneberg -- For A New Mother / Anne McCrady -- Sleeping With the Baby / Charles Grosel -- One Month, Two Children / Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser -- After Two Months of Nursing at Night / Liza Hyatt -- Secrets / M.S. Tupper -- Second Son / Marcia Gerhardt -- How it Happens / Candy Shue -- My Heart's First Steps -- Introductions / Pete Fromm -- Sam Listens / Dan Sklar -- First Picnic / Liza Hyatt -- Jacob's Ladder / Clark Karoses -- Step / Joyce M. Fischer -- Savanna Stalling / Todd W. Palmer -- When You Are Ready, Climb / James P. Lenfestey -- Father's Day / Guy Reed -- Ah ... / John Holbrook -- Christmas Shopping With Preschoolers / Helene Barker Kiser -- Husbandry / Dane Cervine -- Brushing Teeth / Paul Vos Benkowski -- Fatherhood / Dan Sklar -- Walking With Your Son / Peter Krok -- Enlightenment Begins at Home / Dane Cervine -- Break / Jennifer Graf Groneberg -- Ode to Lammy Chop / Todd W. Palmer -- Grand / T.W. Berry -- Bath Time / Roger Cody -- Still Life With Children / Tara Moghadam -- The Playground / Rebecca Balcarcel -- My Days Are Made of You and Me / Karen Howland -- This is the Life / Dan Sklar -- The Digging Hole / Anna Viadero -- Next Steps -- Boy on a Beach / Terrence Dunn -- Love / Grey Held -- Lullaby / Elliot Richman -- A Mother's Day Letter / Anne M. Bruner -- On Listening Again to "Stairway to Heaven" / Stephen Cushman -- Inspired By A Paper Route / Susan LaScala -- Snowflake / Susan Terris -- A Winter Night / Dan Sklar -- Sick Child / Susan Hodara -- A Book / Grey Held -- The Bath / Tara Moghadam -- Goodnight / Paul Hostovsky -- A Plea For Kindness / Susan Hodara -- Oath / Paul Hostovsky -- Making Pancakes / Carolyn Adams -- Second Birth / P.M. Hayes -- A Blue Stone Turning / Sephen Frech -- The Truth I Carry / Anna Viadero -- Reading By Heart / Lou Masson -- Alchemy / Richard M. Berlin -- Now Daughter / Sondra Zeidenstein -- Fathers Playing Catch with Daughters / Paul F. Cummins -- Mowing the Lawn / Warren Garr -- Reflections from the Wading Pool -- Holding the World Like a Boy / Tom Groneberg -- Heart Home / Mary Cummings -- Diapers and Deadlines / Ann Reilly Cole -- Becoming / Phyllis Walker -- Renga of an At-Home Dad / Bradley Earle Hoge -- How Much is a One-Way Ticket to Somewhere Else? / Maureen Helms Blake -- I am tired ... / Cathy Lentes -- Looking Beyond the Clutter / Amy Pinnell -- Beauty in Bending / Lisa Rye -- Humble Pie / Leslie J. Wyatt -- Where Have All the Bears Gone? / Dex Westrum -- Mommy's Inner Animal / Alice Keane Putman -- Career Girl, Interrupted / Sarah Barnes -- Animal Dreams / Dane Cervine -- Another Guilt Trip / Darcy Lipp-Acord -- Nights After Daycare / Tony Reevy -- Snow Days / Susan Evans -- Grown Children / L.N. Allen -- Reflections on Parenthood / Pamela Malone -- Not Polonius, But Your Father, I / Jeff Cannon -- Meet the Moms -- Meet the Dads -- Acknowledgments.