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SEPARATION ANXIETY

One Thing I Can't Fix

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Stephanie Mason-Teague
Dec 31, 2022
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It had been hours . . . or at least it felt like it.

I was sitting on the floor outside the bedroom, listening to the cries coming through the door. The book said a baby had to learn to self-soothe—and the only way to do that was to put the baby to bed and let him cry.

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