Finding Your New Normal. 7 Practical Tips For New Daddy After Childbirth
It’s normal for dads to find it hard to cope with the first few weeks and months of being a dad. It is a new experience that many first-time dads have no way to prepare for. Even if you’ve tried to get prepare for months in advance it can still be a challenging role…
Read MoreThe Problems with Anti-Sleep Training articles
I had another discussion today in the usual echo chamber of “anti CIO” parents. The same tired arguments (see what I did there?) came out, and the clucking and tsk-ing over parents who are so mean and selfish as to do something so horrible to their sweet innocent baby. Unfettered judgment like that immediately makes…
Read MoreI don’t know what “Cry It Out” is.
*IMPORTANT NOTE: For the purpose of this conversation, the babies I’m talking about are healthy, growing appropriately, and 8 weeks and older. NOT NEWBORNS or babies with feeding or health issues. That’s a whole different ball game with an entirely different set of rules. CIO. “Crying It Out”. Sleep Training. “Gentle”. “Traumatic”. “I don’t believe…
Read MoreThe Lost Art of Talking on the Phone
Anyone who knows me knows I love to talk. I can strike up a conversation with anyone – gas station attendants, waiters, other people on line at the grocery store – and of course, I love talking to my friends. Back in the day, before cell phones, I was on my cordless phone (that I…
Read MoreI wish I had a doula when I fostered my first kittens!
You are handed a tiny, precious being, born to this world very recently. You are completely in love. Authoritative medical figures come in with packets of paper and tons of information, and tell you lots (and LOTS) of things about this little creature, but mostly a list of safety rules and all the things you…
Read MoreConsent starts early
Last night, I wrote a Facebook post about a shocking situation I was in in my personal life and it has been shared many times. The issue of consent (ONLY YES MEANS YES) is one that I’ve been reading and thinking about a lot lately, and I’m glad it’s on everyone’s mind. This is a…
Read MoreThe Mama’s Best Friend Difference
There are so many CHOICES in parenting. What stroller should you get, what kind of birth do you want, what color are you going to paint the nursery? And that’s all before the baby is even born – you have not known decision fatigue until you’ve had a new baby. “Is she hungry? Why is…
Read MoreBirth is just the beginning.
Birth. Birthbirthbirthbirthbirthbirth. From the moment you saw that second pink line, (maybe even before!) you’ve been thinking about BIRTH. Natural birth, homebirth, hospital birth, epidural, birthing tubs, Hypnobirth, on and on the options go. There are birth advocacy groups, birth blogs, birth websites, birth classes, heated and endless birth debates…. and that’s GREAT, it really…
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