Sarah Jedd
Sarah Jedd has a Ph.D. in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches and studies the rhetoric of Planned Parenthood. Sarah has 5 (F I V E) children: teens Harry and Jack, elementary schoolers Cooper and Dorothy, and sweet baby Minnie, born in August 2020. Sarah blogs about being a mom of many at harrytimes.com and overshares on IG as @sarahjedd. Sarah, her husband, and their kids live in Verona with the world's laziest dog.
Mom, You’re not the Only One Who… | Real Pandemic Parenting
Trust me—it's not just you. NO ONE has their ish entirely together in this pandemic. I mean, there’s literally no need to clean the house because NO ONE IS COMING OVER. So, you just...
Self Care Tips for the Every Mom Living Through a Global Pandemic
Self-care? WHO HAS TIME FOR SELF-CARE?!?
I get it; it’s a pandemic, which means moms have even less free time than we did before the apocalypse. Self-care is probably the first thing to get slashed...
Halloween Candy: Please, Parents, Just Let Your Kids Eat It
On October 31, just let your kids eat their darn Halloween candy.
Disclaimer: I'm not talking to parents of kids with food allergies or any other serious medical condition for whom candy-eating is verboten.
I am...
Perfect Lactation Cookies: Notes from the Breastfeeding Trenches
It only took me FIVE BABIES to discover the magic of lactation cookies, but I have arrived! Lactation cookies are the perfect breastfeeding snack, and they are a guilt-free way to eat cookies. Hard...
When Labor Doesn’t Go as Planned: It’s OK to Feel all the Feels
I didn’t have the birth I wanted this fifth and final time in labor and delivery, and despite my delectable baby girl, I’m sad about it.
Like her siblings before her, my plan was to...
Working From Home With Kids: If I Can Do It, So Can You!
My husband and I both work full time from our (tiny-- OMG WHY DID WE BUY SUCH A TINY HOUSE AND THEN FILL IT TO THE BRIM WITH CHILDREN) house with four (soon to...
Pandemic Parenting Life Hacks That Let YOU Be the Fun Mom
Hi. My name is Sarah. I have 4 kids, and I am two months away from having my fifth. My husband and I have been working at home since mid-March, and we have no...
Pregnant in a Pandemic: Dispatches from a Soon-to-Be Mom of 5
If it’s not weird enough being 42 and pregnant (which is PLENTY WERID, my friends), I am old and pregnant in the middle of a global pandemic, which takes weird to a whole new...
Teacher Appreciation: To the Best Teacher I Ever Had
I think about my fifth-grade classroom all of the time. I went to a magnet school in the same building with a junior high. The elementary half was a huge open space partitioned off...
So You Want to Run a Slap Dash Homeschool in Your Basement
So you want to run a slap dash homeschool in your basement? Awesome. Come on in and tour my operation. I would ask you to take off your shoes, but that doesn't even matter...
Shopping for COVID-19: How I am Preparing for a Pandemic
Pandemic shopping for parents-- it's like regular shopping, but scarier!
(Disclaimer: I am not that kind of doctor. I am a mom of 4 (soon-to-be 5) who is a realist, a news junkie, and an...
Elderly Pregnancy: I Endured the First Trimester, and You Can, Too
Imagine my shock when I got the results of my positive pregnancy test from my doctor’s office on my electronic medical chart and saw the label, “Supervision of ELDERLY Multigravida.” I googled multigravida and...