When my son was a few weeks old, he had a lot of bumps on his face that my mother-in-law called baby acne. They didn’t seem to cause him any discomfort, but they definitely made me rethink the pure, unblemished baby skin idea. We had the pediatrician look at it and found out it was…
Now that the weather is turning cooler, the kiddie germs are about to descend upon us. Last winter was my son’s first winter in daycare, and I don’t think I worked a full week from November to March. Almost everything he had was viral, and much of it was congestion in his nose/chest/ears. One of…
I recently bought a set of these magnets as an impulse purchase at Marshalls. My son loved them so much that I bought this set in addition. They’re brightly colored, easy to grab, and there’s a lot of them in the box. We recently had to replace our refrigerator (ugh), and luckily these magnets don’t…
The newborn baby phase is totally disorienting, to say the least. You don’t know if you’re feeding the baby right, or enough, or at the right times; you’re tired; and your hormones are going crazy. For me, that manifested in a lot of anxiety around feeding, weight gain, and dirty-diaper counting… night under the jaundice…
I recently did a post recommending cheap Forever 21 undershirts — and here’s the more expensive version ($16.50) that I like just as much. The difference is I’ve worn these tanks on their own, whereas I wouldn’t wear the cheaper tanks as my only layer. These tanks are thick, opaque, and long; the straps are…
