With families so busy these days it’s sometimes hard to make time for your health by exercising. How can you justify an hour at the gym away from your family when you haven’t seen them all day and dinner’s still up in the air? With parents working harder than ever, homework piling up [...]
Tags: dinner, exercise, family bonding, family fun, Nutrition, sleep, stress
Posted in: Health
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I’ll never forget the moment when I was absolutely sure that I just couldn’t keep going as a mom. My two year old was having a fitful sleep and kept waking me up with her yelps from the nightmares she was having. My newborn was sleeping in the bed with me because it was the only [...]
Tags: emotions, exhausted, newborns, nursing, overwhelmed, sleep, tired, toddler
Posted in: Parenting
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Sleep as much as you can now because, once the baby comes, you won’t sleep. This is advice that many parents-to-be hear – and promptly ignore. But my husband and I quickly learned just how true it is. Whether your baby is easy going or colicky, hungry all the time or a good eater, you [...]
Tags: baby sleep, mommy sleep, newborn sleep, sleep, sleep deprevation
Posted in: Baby, Parenting
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I have very little experience in putting one baby to sleep. I can’t tell you how to put three or more babies to sleep at the same time. But as a mom of twins, I sure do know how to put twin babies to sleep. At least my babies. Because every baby is different.
Here are [...]
Tags: babies, How to, naps, sleep, Twins
Posted in: Baby, Twins
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My almost three-year-old son is giving up his nap. Sigh. On the days where he naps, he’s wide awake at bedtime, past bedtime, way past bedtime, and is still trying to jump on the bed and sing songs about weasels at 9.30pm. A few cranky afternoons excepted, he’s a happy little chap all day when [...]
Tags: internet, napping, naptime, sleep
Posted in: Baby, Toddlers
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