When you’re picking out baby items for the first time—or adding to your stash for Baby #2—it’s easy to get overwhelmed. There is just so much out there. How can you possibly figure out what the most useful baby products will be for your little bundle of joy, especially when you’ve never done this whole […]
107 Practical Parenting Tips Every New Mom Needs to Know!
So, I have a little announcement to make. It’s not a baby, per se, but it’s still my baby: a brand-spanking-new book for new moms called 107 Things I Wish I Had Known with My First Baby: Essential Tips for the First 3 Months. That’s right—I wrote a book! I couldn’t be more proud […]
How to Cure Even the Worst Diaper Rash
Diaper rash is the worst. And the worst diaper rash? There aren’t adequate words…but that’s OK because your child’s screams say it all. When babies have a diaper rash, their little bottoms are red, raw, spotted and possibly even bleeding. And if they pee in their diaper when one is raging? Judging from my […]
Sick Day Essentials for Sick Kids
Kids are little petri dishes. Adorable little petri dishes, but petri dishes nonetheless. Despite our best efforts to keep them healthy—and as you can see in this other recent post, I really, really do try to keep them healthy—they get sick. It happens. It’s a normal part of life, and it helps their immune systems […]
5 Things You Need to Keep Your Baby Warm This Winter
Baby, it’s cold outside…which means that your baby is cold. If you’re anything like me, reading those words are enough to give you heart palpitations. After all, you’re THE MOM. To do the bare minimum for that job, you need to provide your baby with the basics—and keeping your baby warm is as basic as […]
13 Tricks to Make Baby’s 1st Halloween Awesome
Here’s a confession that I’m not at all ashamed about (for a change): I am a Halloween freak. I love spooky stuff. I spend a small fortune on pumpkins. I obsessively collect magazine clippings and pin posts on Pinterest about cute, clever Halloween-inspired food. I decorate my apartment with ghosts that shriek when you walk […]
How to Entertain an Infant
Babies are adorable and awesome and snuggly. You could spend all day staring at them. And in the beginning, you do. Happily. But then, you realize that you can’t simply stare at them all the time, and for the love of God, what do you do with them all day long? That’s probably the […]
The Three New Baby Products You'll Want Now
You know you’re a mom when you see a really great baby product and you get just as excited as you would over a pair of ridiculously gorgeous shoes. Well, I was all mom this past weekend at the New York Baby Show. Despite yet another kiddie sickness that almost derailed […]
15 Things I Wish I Knew with My First Baby
Don’t get me wrong: Being a new mom is hard, no matter how many times you do it. All of the usual suspects, like sleep deprivation and postpartum pain, are there and ready to pull you under at any minute. Plus, there are some new challenges, like how to get your older kid adjusted […]
Baby Essentials for Second-Time Moms
Once you have one kid, you’re pretty much set with stuff if you decide to have a second. Seriously, you have so much damn stuff you’ve probably considering moving out of your place at one point or another because it’s literally bursting at the seams like a clown car. That said, if you’re a […]