I am almost six months postpartum and I am really looking forward to getting my body back. For over eight years, this body of mine has grown four children, lost 12 due to miscarriage, breastfed, carried, and nurtured. I’ve neglected its needs, putting others ahead of what my body needed, and now that I just … Read more about 8 Ways to Sneak in a Little Exercise When You Have a Baby
Tonight my son Macks woke up shortly after I put him down to bed. I walked into his room as he sat up and looked at me through the side of his crib with tears in his eyes and I quietly picked him up. We walked over to the rocking chair in his room and … Read more about 7 Ways Motherhood is Different With Your Last Baby
My boys were 7, 5, and 3 when my daughter was born a micro preemie in 2012. Joy weighed just 1 pound, 4 ounces and was not even the length of a ruler. While I knew that her birth would change our lives forever, I couldn’t have predicted all the ways she would teach my … Read more about 5 Reasons My Sons Are Better for Having a Preemie Sister
“Go” Before You Go If you have a recently potty trained child, you can probably relate to the following scenario: You have your three-year-old use the potty twice before you leave the house. You get to the grocery store. Your cart is loaded. Suddenly your daughter looks at you, grabbing at her pants uncomfortably before … Read more about 5 Public Potty Pointers: How to help kids overcome public toilet phobias
Signs of Readiness You’d think that toilet learning would be a simple step in childrearing; everyone finds success eventually (how many teenagers do you know still in diapers?). But for many parents, the very thought of toilet training can be daunting. A dear friend recently told me, “I love everything about being a mom—except potty training.” This … Read more about Toilet Teaching Techniques: 5 Experts’ Methods
Congratulations on the birth of your new baby! Whether this is your first baby or your fifth, you will find this a time of recovery, adjustment, sometimes confusion and frustration, but—most wonderfully—of falling in love. Babies younger than four months old have very different sleep needs than older babies. Once you learn your newborn baby’s … Read more about Newborns and Sleep: Understanding Sleeping Patterns
A recent trip to Florida did more than force me back into a bathing suit. Traveling with my five-month-old required me to face an even bigger fear: altering his daily routine. At first I resisted, fearing that the slightest deviation would result in chaos. While our friends sunned themselves by the pool and strolled on … Read more about Real World Routines: How to Balance Routine and Spontaneity
While many children seem to have memories like steel traps when it comes to learning song lyrics or favorite stories, they often cannot seem to remember to put their toys away, and even remembering to brush their teeth each day seems impossible. If this sounds like your child, try the following guidelines to help develop … Read more about Memory Boosters: How to develop and improve your child’s memory
Bringing home a new baby can be an exciting, overwhelming, and nerve-wracking experience for a new parent. Often it feels as though this tiny little creature demands so much time and energy—as if all your little baby is capable of is eating, sleeping, and crying. But that’s not really the case. Your new baby is … Read more about Baby’s Motor Development: From Rolling Over to First Steps
It used to be that you grabbed your bag, jumped into your car, and went on your merry way to wherever you needed to go. But now that you have a baby? Getting out of the house requires the production and coordination of staging a Broadway show. Sigh if the following checklist sounds familiar:
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