brought our newborn home seven months ago to a three year old golden who had been our only baby for two years and the published advice on the introduction was structurally insufficient in ways i did not understand until i was inside the transition, want to write down the lived version of how a household renegotiates when an infant arrives because the gap between the books and the reality is wider than the books admit
Saoirse is a 3 year old golden retriever who came to us at 9 weeks and was our entire focus for two years before our daughter Pippa was born. She is the textbook calm golden, well socialized, never...