The Postpartum Mom…and Her Mom
10 easy ways to help your mom help YOU in the early days after childbirth.
10 easy ways to help your mom help YOU in the early days after childbirth.
New parents get a lot of pressure to establish an early, set bedtime just WEEKS after birth. Is this realistic or are we driving ourselves bonkers for no reason?
Know your rights, ladies, and what still needs to be done.
When did you first take your baby OUT PLACES? Did you have your doctor’s blessing or just your common sense?
It’s an unfortunate side effect of the “Pregnancy Causes EVERYTHING” routine: Sometimes we still ignore things that, before pregnancy and childbirth, would have sent us hightailing it to the doctor a long time ago. And maybe still should.
What to do when you’re flying with the pump…but not the baby.
Oh, dry shampoo. You are the savior to tired, rushed and overworked moms everywhere. Here’s how to use it the right way and avoid a head of powdered George Washington-style hair.
We’ve covered baby food and cloth diapers, so it only makes sense that we’d help you out on baby books, an area where even the most committed of us will lose interest and focus.
A Non-Morning Person’s guide to surviving the morning rush.
I used to wake up every morning for work, before my husband did. I would shower and get dressed in suits and heels and I wore makeup and blow-dried my hair every day. And then I had a baby.
How to safely — and successfully — do both.
The first overnight trip away from your baby. Or toddler. Or kid.
Like practically every other human being on Earth, I own an iPhone. It’s helping me get into the best shape of my life.
I am currently breastfeeding my almost 4 week old son and I am very interested in getting him to take a bottle. A side note–I have a 2 year old daughter who NEVER took a bottle. I breastfed her for 13 months, exclusively. At the time it wasn’t a big deal and I wasn’t that bothered by it. But now…I NEED this little boy to take a bottle.
Of all the postpartum fallout to my body, my c-section scar is actually pretty low on the list of things that bother me. But it’s still there. And I did wonder if there was anything I could do about it.
I believe I’ve mentioned once or twice or fourteen-dozen times that my older son became…intensely challenging in the weeks and months right after we brought his baby brother home. He was three years old, and he was AWFUL. I feel like I can call him that because 1) he’s not, anymore, and 2) because he was objectively, literally, monumentally AWFUL.
Our swaddling blankets became a few of our most prized possessions. And since I still get questions about whether such-and-such blanket is worth the money or how many blankets should I register for or HALP MY BABY PUNCHES HERSELF IN THE FACE AT NIGHT, I figured it’s time to just put all my Very Important Opinions all in one place.
What to wear when your molehills become mountains.
In which your columnist finally admits to having ongoing and inappropriate feelings towards chocolate pudding.
Phantom food aversions, long after the fact.