Photos by Kim Moller

What has been the best part of becoming parents? We have absolutely LOVED becoming parents. We’ve both been on maternity/paternity leave together, which has been such a sweet bonding time of learning how to be parents together, how to operate as a good team and to support each other. It has flown by and at the same time, it feels like we’ve known Chloe forever and we love her so much more than we thought was possible.

Tell us a funny story relating to parenting! The first night in the hospital, I went to sleep after having fed Chloe and put her down in the bassinet. I woke up a few hours later to her crying and went to feed her. After feeding her, Dan and I changed our first dirty diaper together, swaddled her back up and put her back down to sleep. Then Dan said to me ” Ok, I’m going to sleep now too”, and I was like “What do you mean, going to sleep now too?? She’s been sleeping for hours, what have you been doing!” And he said, “I was just watching her”. He was totally smitten and I melted.

Describe a hurdle you’ve had to overcome in the transition to parenthood: The sleep deprivation has definitely been an adjustment but we’ve been able to work as a team in that too. I usually take the night shift and then Dan wakes up with her in the morning for playtime after breakfast and lets me get some extra sleep.

What is the most honest thing you can say about being a parent?  It definitely requires sacrifice and reorganizing your life around this little one’s needs, but it is so so so worth it. She is our biggest blessing and we can’t imagine not being her parents.