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I know it's the refrain of every new mom, but those first few months after my son as born were hard.

Really hard.

In fact, as I look back on those days and weeks - the ones that seemed to stretch on forever as I oscillated between some of the highest highs and the lowest lows I couldn't have even imagined to anticipate before our son was born - I realize that they were the most challenging times of my life so far. While we couldn't comprehend how we could love someone as much as we loved our brand-new child, the transition from a complicated pregnancy to the sleeplessness and constant busyness that is life with a newborn was capital D-Daunting.

But as in all dark times, bright spots appeared to deliver us from our toil. The one that saved us one morning in early spring 2008 just happened to involve a human poop cannon.

Read on if you dare at <a href="http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-poop-cannon">my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.

<em><a href="http://thedalydoseblog.blogspot.com/">Photo by Ashley Heider-Daly</a></em>