These are all of my latest posts in chronological orders, hope you enjoy and get some use out of them!
Can you imagine this nightmare scenario?
(If you’re reading this, you might not even have to imagine… You may be living it!)
In any case, it’s frighteningly common, and a huge headache for parents.
What should you do if you’re traveling and the airline loses your car seat? What if you arrive at your destination and the car seat is too damaged from the flight to use?
I’m really, really big on self-care for parents.
Taking care of babies and toddlers is so incredibly hard that it’s absolutely crucial that you find any way you can to make some time for yourself.
Some folks will encourage skipping showers when you’re alone with the baby, opting instead for wipes, dry shampoo, and extra deodorant so you never have to leave their side.
I say fooey!
Here are my best tips and advice for how to find time to shower when you’re alone with a newborn or toddler.
The first year or so of a baby’s life is a full-contact sport.
Parents will be VERY hands on, and baby will be on your hip almost all the time.
That makes it difficult to take care of basic tasks, especially self-care. This is why new parents are always tired, unshaved, unshowered, and generally struggling to keep it together.
But there are some activities you can’t skip, which begs the question:
How do you go to the bathroom with a baby? Any tips for using a public restroom when you’re alone with your baby?
Keeping baby’s room clean is one thing.
Keeping the nursery SMELLING clean is another one entirely!
Chances are, once baby moves out of the bassinet and into his own room, the nursery will be ground zero for everything from sleeping to feeding to, yes, changing stinky diapers.
If you’re like a lot of parents, you’ll want to have some kind of receptacle, like a Diaper Genie, right there in the nursery to help with disposal.
So what do you do if baby’s room always smells like poop? Or pee? How do you keep the nursery smelling nice?
In the early days after you bring baby home (especially your first baby), you tend to freak out about everything. You’re hyper-vigilant about germs, about sterilizing everything, about potential injuries. And you’re absolutely on top of those frequent diaper changes! You’ve got wipes and creams and lotions at the ready. No diaper rash on your … Read more
When you bring your baby home from the hospital, you’re going to realize pretty quickly:
Taking care of baby’s skin is quite a task!
It’s dry, flaky, and soft but easily irritable. Keeping it moisturized and baby smooth is no easy feat.
So a lot of parents wind up spending a fortune on tubs and tubs of baby lotion.
Is that really necessary, though? What’s the difference between baby lotion vs regular adult lotion?
Does it matter or can you just use whatever’s cheapest?
I seriously can not tell you how many close calls I’ve had.
In the baby days, parents are HYPER diligent about perfectly tracking, mixing (if using formula), and sterilizing bottles used for milk.
Once the toddler years come and milk is sort of an optional, ‘whenever the kid feels like it’ endeavor, you tend to end up with a lot of half-finished sippy cups of milk lying around the house.
(And in between couch cushions and rolling around on the floor of your car. Just admit it, we’ve all been there.)
So it’s a common problem and a common question: What happens if your child or toddler drinks some old, spoiled milk?
My wife always jokes that if there’s a Hell, it involves brushing a toddler’s teeth over and over for all of eternity.
Can’t say I disagree!
Keeping your kid’s teeth clean is tough. They can’t sit still, they LOVE sugar, and you need to keep a steady supply of special toothpaste.
Or do you?
What’s actually the difference between baby and kid toothpaste vs regular adult toothpaste? Do you need to buy special toothpaste or can everyone in your household use the same?
Taking baby to the pool or beach can be a giant ball of stress.
You need a ton of supplies, swim diapers, special floaties, and of course, oodles and oodles of sunscreen.
After all, there’s nothing worse than a sunburnt baby!
A lot of parents obsess over buying the right sunscreen for their baby or newborn and end up spending a fortune on high-end creams and lotions.
It begs the question: What’s the difference between baby sunscreen vs adult sunscreen? Does it matter or can you just use whatever’s cheapest?
Your first time doing baby laundry can be a harrowing experience.
So many things to worry about! Shrinking onesies, colors running, and worst of all, wondering if the detergent will irritate your baby’s skin.
This is precisely the reason special, baby-formulated laundry detergent is so popular.
But let’s be real — do you need to buy this so-called ‘gentle’ stuff? What’s the difference between baby detergent vs regular detergent, and does it matter or can you just buy whatever’s cheaper?
