I recently asked the moms on my Facebook page how much longer I could refer to my baby as my baby. When my daughter hit the 11-month mark, I started to get e-mails from baby companies saying that toddlerhood was here, and I balked, saying that it was absolutely not and that I wanted […]
How to Get Perfect Pictures of Your Kids
We all want fantastic photos of our kids…and we all feel like we need to drink a vat of wine after trying to get them. After my last attempt at wrangling my two little hellions into a single frame, I thought there had to be an easier way to do this. So I […]
How New Dads Can Help Breastfeeding Moms
We usually think of breastfeeding as falling solely on our shoulders—and a lot of it does, of course. We’re the ones who are up at all hours of the night with a hungry baby. It’s our nipples that are sore and possibly cracked and bleeding. It’s our painfully engorged breasts that leak milk […]
I'm Not Ready for Breastfeeding to Be Over
I sobbed for a full 15 minutes while looking at my daughter this morning. She was playing quietly on her own, and with just one week to go till her 11-month birthday, she suddenly seemed so grown up. In one month, she went from having no teeth to having six […]
Stop Commenting on My Baby Girl's Body!
Am I taking crazy pills? Because either I’m crazy or everyone else is, and we all know how that usually goes. But really, this time I’m pretty sure it’s not me. Less than a week after I wrote about a little old lady body-shaming my infant daughter, another woman commented […]
To the Little Old Lady Who Body-Shamed My Infant Daughter
I’m probably going to go straight to hell for this, but I had an overwhelming urge to punch a little old lady in the face the other day. I mean, just because she was a little old lady, it doesn’t mean that she wasn’t being an a-hole. And from a protective mama’s perspective, […]
Friday Favorites: Baby Bargains…and Finding the Best Baby Products
I’m pretty sure there’s nothing that moms like better than recommending baby products that they love to expecting parents. Well, aside from an actual adorable, snuggly baby. And a trustworthy babysitter. And wine. And uninterrupted sleep. But other than all that, it’s the recommending thing. The only issue, […]
Dear Olympics: Is Money More Important Than a Baby's Health?
The Olympics are making me see red right now. No, not red, white and blue. Just red. Why? Four little letters and one huge disease: Zika. And I want to scream another four-letter word at the International Olympic Committee and the World Health Organization for saying that “there is no […]
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 […]
The Weird Thing That Happens When You’re Done Having Kids
Something happens when you decide that you’re done having kids. And before you tell me that I might change my mind and that hey, you never know, let me stop you right there. It ain’t happening. We have two amazing, beautiful children, and we are done. Finito. The shop is closed for business. I […]
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