1st time older mommies & daddies
We can all become defensive of our offspring, despite the fact that some parents might actually be raising a mean kid. My daughter just turned 13 months. She’s walking, blabbering, and learning words like fish, beach, up, dog, yeah, no, hi, momma, and dada. Continue reading “Oblivious Parents: Are You Raising A Mean Kid?”
Building confidence in children doesn’t start when they’re teens or young adults but instead should be instilled in babies from the time they can understand praise. Continue reading “The Importance Of Building Your Baby’s Confidence”
If you are a helicopter mom, you need to understand that babies once mobile get overcome with curiosity and want to explore. If you are a first time mommy like me, you’ll likely be guilty of being a helicopter mom from time to time. Continue reading “Confessions of a Helicopter Mom: Let Kids Be Kids!”
Baby food can be super easy to make, more easy than you might think. I’m not a huge cook, but I absolutely love cooking soup. One of my favorite things to do is to throw a bunch of stuff in the crockpot and let it slow cook all day. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I would make a ton of soup and so it’s no surprise that my daughter loves my soups.
Baby food is very simple to make when you throw it all in the crockpot. Depending upon the size of your family. Since there’s just three in ours, we usually have enough for mommy and daddy and then enough to blend to make into baby food. Continue reading “Crockpot Your Way To Home Made Baby Food”
#StayAtHomeMoms
#StayAtHomeMoms are special mothers that make a serious decision to put their child first. This is not to say that working mother’s don’t love their children. #StayAtHomeMoms are rare in this 21st century of career and ambition. Continue reading “#StayAtHomeMoms: For At Least The First Year”
Breastfeeding and fatigue go hand in hand, but so does being a new mama. I’ve been breastfeeding since my daughter was just minutes old. She latched on immediately, despite my fear that we wouldn’t have a strong bond after my emergency C-section. To rewind, I had this “perfect” birth plan including music selection, dim lights, ice chips…and it all came crashing down when a failed epidural + the baby heart dropping every time I pushed = emergency C-section. Continue reading “Breastfeeding: Can Nursing Your Baby Cause Fatigue?”
One of my jobs as Daddy is to rock Ariabella to sleep each night after reading to her. If all goes well, by the time we finish the second or third book she is rubbing her eyes, my clue to turn off the light and usher her into night-night land.
Who said being a new mommy was easy? I had this domain name purchased for about a year and I meant to design this site, but being a rookie mommy made things a bit of a challenge. While my daughter is now almost 11 months old, it still feels like I brought her home from the hospital yesterday. Continue reading “Still a Rookie & Loving Every Minute”