Posts Tagged ‘baby’

How Many Diapers A Day?

I love going to the Baby Aisle at Target. You know the Baby Aisle – the one with diapers down the entire 40′ section on one side, and baby food/formula/wipes/bath wash/lotion on the other side. I know it well, as it is probably my most-visited area of the store, aside from the milk section....
June 26th, 2008 | Expectant Moms, Thoughts on Being a Mom, new baby | Read More

Having a Baby? 36 Products and Tools You Need for those First Three Months

With several friends who are having their first (or second or third) babies soon, and because, to these new Moms at least, I’m considered an “expert” (after all, I’ve got two boys who are now almost-3 and almost-1 year old), I’m being asked a lot nowadays for advice on What to Buy for Baby....
June 26th, 2008 | Expectant Moms, Parenting Tricks, new baby | Read More

Having a Baby? The ONLY 5 Things to Take to the Hospital

With my first pregnancy, the fear of actually going through labor was a dark shadow over my last trimester. My all-encompassing denial of this part of the process of becoming a mother meant I could not make myself read anything about labor, listen to any friend who wanted to share her delivery story,...
June 26th, 2008 | Expectant Moms, new baby | Read More

Judge Not, Lest Ye Be . . .the Mom with the Crying Child in Seat 17B

How well I remember my carefree 20’s. Well, they didn’t seem carefree then; I was trying to work through a failing marriage while making a start on my career. But, looking back from my vantage point of right now – with kids, a mortgage, aging parents, and a (different) husband with a cholesterol...
June 12th, 2008 | Expectant Moms, Sitters & Crawlers, Thoughts on Being a Mom, life with little ones, new baby | Read More

Gravity: Two perspectives

Gravity is something most people don’t think a whole lot about on a daily basis. It is introduced during school in science class, and then (for most of us) once the test for that class is over, your knowledge of gravity is limited to the image of the apple falling on Newton’s head. His Law of Gravitation...
June 5th, 2008 | Sitters & Crawlers, Thoughts on Being a Mom | Read More