Welcome back to the Babies Online Blog! If you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and be the first to get breaking parenting news and take advantage of our member only giveaways. Thanks for visiting!On Monday, we posed a question to the Babies Online Community:
“How do you get [...]
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While some babies enjoy taking baths, others are apprehensive or even afraid. Both of our kids were afraid of the tub, but have come to enjoy bath time and even get excited at the prospect of taking a bath. (We’re enjoying it while it lasts, knowing that eventually they will probably turn around and start [...]
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Many people often ask creative writers where we get our ideas. This poem was inspired by a variety of posts I read here at Babies Online, especially those that discussed bedtime routines and setting a schedule.
Then, my niece had an assignment in her college writing class to write a particular form of poem, a villanelle. [...]
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Most young babies dislike baths. I?ve always found this to be slightly ironic because babies spend 9 plus months in a water bubble before they are born!
When my children were a few days old, I found it was best to give them their sponge baths in sections. I?d start first with their head [...]
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This story is about a 10-month old baby who almost drowned and died. It all started with the usual daily routine of bathing baby while he is having fun in his safety bath seat. But oops, Mommy forgot the towel. So she stepped out quickly to grab a towel from the other room. Daddy came [...]
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