I remember when I had my first baby and thought, Oh, a stroller — what a concept! And then I put my baby in the car seat. Or in the bouncer. Or in the playpen. And I realized that my baby seemed to be malfunctioning because he did NOT want to be put down. (Like, ever). For high-needs babies like my firstborn, strollers can be tough. You’re there, you’re literally right next to ...
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What do you even need for a second baby? Is it tacky to throw a baby shower every time you get pregnant? Are you ever going to be able to sneeze three times without peeing a little? Motherhood the second time around comes with a lot of big questions, but one thing that should NOT be a big deal is your baby registry. If you didn’t plan on having another baby and ...
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You never think about how you’re going to teach your kid to ride a bike, you just daydream about it wistfully, buy the bandaids, and wait for the Hallmark moment to happen. It’s not rocket science, but at the end of the day, teaching that kind of coordination is easier said than done. After decades of muscle memory, most of us don’t even think about how we ride a bike, so ...
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When you become a parent, you get used to everyone around you giving you conflicting advice. If you co-sleep, you’ll never get them out of your bedroom. If your baby sleeps in a nursery, you’ll struggle to breastfeed. If you try to structure your baby’s day, you’ll drive yourself crazy. And on. And on. And ON. In the face of an overwhelming number of big decisions to make, it’s understandable that parents cling to whatever ...
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Your baby’s first Halloween is a BIG deal — for pictures and Pinterest. But for a baby, it’s just another day of being carted around in a cute outfit, wondering what the heck all the fuss is about. Baby’s first Halloween is more an exercise in preparedness and managing expectations than it is candy-sorting and trick-or-treating routes. Your main priority is to capture a picture of your baby in her costume ...
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Past the age of 12, parents start to look at their gangly, hormonal kids heading out the door in a costume with a pillowcase on Halloween and wonder — Are they too old for this? It’s a fair question, and one with no clear answer: Just how old is too old to trick or treat? There are no hard and fast laws, and even if there were, enforcing them would be a challenge. ...
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You know those mamas who always look put together? I'm talking their makeup on, hair done, wearing clothes with an abnormally scarce amount of sticky finger stains and/or spit-up? Well, get ready to join them, because you GOT THIS. The experts say that when you look good, you feel good, and there’s some solid psychology to back that up. The problem is, most moms barely have time for a hot shower, ...
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Exercising with kids around is about as easy to do as a crow’s pose after eating a plate of nachos. If it’s not a drowsy five-year-old trying to keep up on his bike for your morning run, it’s a teething baby, a bailing babysitter, or a closed sign on the daycare at the gym. For parents, squeezing in a workout is sometimes so laughable that it becomes a nonstarter, but the ...
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Summertime and popsicles go together like kids and sticky. I’m what people call a crunchy parent, but even I cave when it comes to popsicles, because hey — it’s a part of growing up, right? But when you’re the parent of tiny humans, you do what you can in a day to survive without metaphorically shooting yourself in the foot. Red dye and corn syrup is a surefire way to torpedo my ...
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Moms of multiples have a lot to think about. Worrying about how to fit car seats in your vehicle shouldn't be one of the things keeping you up at night. Finding the best car seat configuration for two or three children can be tricky. Many car seats are too wide to fit right next to each other three across in a back seat. Seriously, this is a thing, and you are ...
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