Breastfeeding in the First Week: 4 Things You Will Be Glad You Knew
If you are expecting a new baby, your preparation list probably includes buying onesies, scanning Pinterest for baby announcement ideas, and educating yourself about…
If you are expecting a new baby, your preparation list probably includes buying onesies, scanning Pinterest for baby announcement ideas, and educating yourself about…
Coming up with baby gift ideas – even gifts for infants – is hard! I think we all understand that babies don’t want or…
I wanted to find some quotes that gave a little inspiration on the whole parenting journey – even though I think “Shit Happens” pretty…
My daughter just turned four months old and in some ways it has been a brutal four months. In other ways, I can’t believe…
A doctor told a very good friend of mine that the first three months of a newborn’s life is like a fourth trimester. He…
I often get asked for book recommendations from newly pregnant women – I can only assume it’s because they’ve already read every nook and…
Among the zillion other things you have to do when going back to work from your maternity leave, figuring out what goes into your…
It’s really hard to find a nice gift for a new mother sometimes. Do you get something practical? Sentimental? Is it someone you want…
Being pregnant is a long, boring and often miserable experience. To help pass that time, you’re probably on a non-stop internet cruise finding every…
I get it. I’m a new mom. You, stranger at the grocery store, are an old-hat mom. You know shit. For some reason…
A French artist, Emma, has united moms of the world after her comic titled “You Should Have Asked” has gone mega viral. In it,…
I am newly postpartum, not quite awake, standing in the checkout line at the grocery store, shush-shushing a 4-litre jug of milk and rocking…
One of the toughest parts of working and breastfeeding is the dreaded Business Trip. And within that category is the even more dreaded prospect…
Growing a human person from scratch and then raising them is wonderfully rewarding, but it’s also unrelenting and exhausting work. Once, long before I had…
When I brought my first newborn home, I assumed there must have been a wild and wounded look in my eyes. It was the…
The amount of development and change a baby goes through in a year IS mind-blowing. We need to know that our babies are heading…
1. I need to have a shower everyday. After having my daughter, Ryley, a daily shower has become an absolute priority in a…
I’ve gotten a lot of emails from women saying they feel overwhelmed by motherhood. Not in a dangerous way, just in a mom guilt…
I asked my bud, Ilana, if I could post one of the sections of her book The Mommy Short’s Guide to Remarkably Average Parenting…
I’m going to throw something out there that might be unpopular, but I’m of the firm belief that babies are weird AF. This doesn’t…