Your little one is finally ready to try solid foods and you have made the decision to make you own baby food at home. While this is certainly a wise choice it can also lead to some questions about how to do it in the most cost effective and efficient way. A common question among [...]
Tags: baby food maker, cuisinart, Frugal Living, homemade baby food
Posted in: Baby, Health
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I try very hard to not be judgmental about how other parents choose to raise their kids. It’s not like I haven’t bribed my toddler with a lollipop to get through a shopping trip, so I try not to tsk-tsk when I see other parents doing things that technically they aren’t supposed to do, at [...]
Tags: exhaustion, sleep, sleepy kids, staying out late
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I was cleaning up the cellar the other day and found some boxes of photos from the pre-digital era, including photos from my sons’ first birthday. The photos brought back some memories of that special day. A colleague asked me once whether she should take a day off on her son’s first birthday and I [...]
Tags: birthday, celebration, culture, first birthday, infant mortality, tradition
Posted in: Baby Names, Parenting
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Have you ever wondered what is going on in your baby’s head? Even when he or she is sleeping? I am sure that like me, you spent many a hour watching your newborn sleep. Sometimes you’d be rewarded by baby sounds or a slight smile. And you get to wonder, what is going on in [...]
Tags: brain, learning, newborns, Research, sleeping
Posted in: Baby, Education
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The Stambek Family (via MySpace) summed up mothers’ sentiments about teething best, saying, “My daughter has just started teething and i have also started to pull my hair out lol… Bless these poor babies’ hearts, I just feel so bad for them when they are teething. They hurt so bad and it seems like there [...]
Tags: facebook, infants tylenol, myspace, teething, teething remedy, teething tablets
Posted in: Baby
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