Having access to your hands is entirely underrated until you have a kid, and then you realize how often you use your hands for things like getting dressed or blowing your nose or eating food. You know, crazy luxuries like that. Once you discover the marvelous convenience that is babywearing, you regain access to the… Continue reading Oh, the Places You’ll Babywear!
Babywearing: you either love it or you don’t. From the experience I’ve had working retail with baby carriers, most moms who came in with negative attitudes regarding babywearing had purchased a carrier that was very uncomfortable for them to wear. Their babies “didn’t like it at all and wouldn’t even stay in it” and often… Continue reading Safely Snuggle
I hate zombie stuff. I don’t watch the movies. I don’t watch that tv show everyone loves. I’m just not a horror movie kind of gal. I have a super visual imagination, and stuff like that gives me nightmares for years. I still have nightmares of the sand sharks from Beetlejuice, the raptors from Jurassic… Continue reading No Zombie Zone
Do you remember being a non-crunchy mom and how you felt when those super crunchy women would leave you horror struck by telling you things like: “Yes, I consumed my placenta after birth…”*** Or… “I no longer buy toilet paper.”*** I was totally that woman when it came to sharing interesting facts about breastmilk. ***Placenta… Continue reading Doing the Breaststroke
We’re always saying, “Hurry up! C’mon! We’re going to be late!” or “WHERE ARE YOUR SHOES?!?” or lamenting when our child poops for like the fourth time that morning JUST as we are about to go out the door. We relish school time or nap time when we can read on our phones uninterrupted. We… Continue reading Looking Up
Thank you for joining us as we’ve given mothers from all over the US a place to share their Nursing Tales. We heard from mommas whose nursing relationships changed from first to second child, mommas who faced and overcame nursing obstacles, mommas who milk shared and pumped and supplemented with formula, mommas who exclusively formula… Continue reading Nursing Tales: United By Love
My husband and I joke that our only child is our test-pilot kid: we do what we think we should be doing to raise him right, and if we make a mistake, we chalk it up to a learning experience for the next one (if there will ever be a next one). A very terrible… Continue reading Nursing Tales: Changing Course
Mommy Tribe: A small group of women united by the ties of motherhood and friendship. Members of the tribe often share similar parenting beliefs and hold similar values. Babysitting each others children for free, bringing food when a fellow’s family suffers from illness or a family death, and monthly or bi-monthly gatherings sans children plus… Continue reading Finding Your Tribe & Dream Diapers Gift Card Giveaway!
William Shakespeare often ingrained in his plays two concepts regarding life after death: you can either write something well enough that people continue to read your words after you die, or you can have children. Either way, you live on. I’ve mentioned before that I come from a rather large Polish Catholic family. Last Thursday,… Continue reading My Grandma Taught Me That
Okay, so you’re getting ready to have your first baby (or maybe your seventh, we don’t judge) and you’ve set up nursing and diapering stations around the house, washed the baby clothes, found a place for ALL THE THINGS you registered for, (Why did you register for so much stuff? Only a few things will… Continue reading Saving Your Undercarriage: Taking Care of You Postpartum
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