Now that I’ve survived the postpartum fourth trimester once and I’m getting ready to do it again, I’ve been thinking about what helped me through that vulnerable period and what I should do differently this next time around. I know it won’t be exactly the same because all babies are different and I’ll have an 18-month-old to care for as…
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One of the biggest lessons I learned after becoming a mom is that the research never ends. Every milestone will have you Googling what to do, what not to do, and what products you will need to get through it. For me, starting my baby on solid foods was one of my biggest research projects. Between purees, baby led weaning,…
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My son RJ turned one year old a couple of months ago, so this list of the best toys for one-year-olds is inspired by the many new toys that have been brought into his play space. I’ve been slowly introducing birthday gifts to his environment and rotating them weekly to keep him engaged (and to give my brain a break…
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When I first dove into the online parenting world with my first pregnancy, one big thing I noticed was the abundance of negative rhetoric around c-sections. It was so normalized to talk about c-sections in a negative way that it worked on me – when I thought about childbirth, the last thing I thought about was having a c-section. Just…
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Before I became a parent, I always struggled with what to bring my friends and family when visiting after they had a baby. I’d always do the obvious “what do you need?” ask, but more often than not, they’d do the midwestern “no need to bring anything” that, in hindsight, was probably due to the decision fatigue I know I…
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