The other day I was at the park with my kids and got to chatting with another mom. She had a tiny baby in a stroller and a toddler-age girl she was pushing on the swing. The toddler was her niece and the baby was hers, so she was pretty freshly postpartum while also babysitting for her sister. I asked…
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Ms. Rachel plays with a lot of fun toys in episodes of her show Songs for Littles, and I know I’m not the only parent who’s found themselves Googling “spiral play garage from Ms Rachel” in search of a specific toy from one of her episodes. I’ve been compiling a list of toys from Ms. Rachel episodes to make it…
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Last week, my son turned 2 years old and my daughter turned 6 months old. It’s hard to believe I just graduated from the “2 under 2” club. I’ve been experiencing one of those existential feelings where it feels like they both were just born while simultaneously feeling like the Titanic “it’s been 84 years” meme. Before my daughter was…
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And just like that… we’re a family of four. My daughter BB was born in late July. She turned 11 weeks old yesterday, so we’re almost through the fourth trimester. Doing this for the second time in less than 2 years has been an interesting experience because I both did and did not know what to expect. I knew what…
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Before RJ was born, I looked at countless lists of the “best newborn essentials” and “baby items you can’t live without” in hopes it would make me better prepared to enter parenthood. In reality, you can have all the best, trendiest products in the world and the things that end up being the most essential to you end up being…
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