October 2008 Today I want to talk briefly about pacifiers. Three of my five children have taken a pacifier. I kind of pushed Julia to take one for car rides and sleep times because I went back to work when she was 5 months old and didn’t know how anyone would be able to take [...]

Let me first say that we do not do much in the way of traveling. Therefore, you won’t find tips in this post on how to fly with a baby or how to travel across the country with a baby. What you will find are a few tips that have worked for us over the [...]

I posted these pictures in a post I wrote about Janna’s first week. However, I thought they were relevant for today’s post. I am not sure whether I am qualified to write a post about sleep when most of my children haven’t slept through the night until they were school-age. Also, my children don’t sleep [...]

When I was a new mom 12 years ago, I had never heard the term “attachment parenting“. I had read many magazines and books about caring for a newborn. While there was good information in all of them, there were some things that just seemed to go against my mommy instincts. I wanted my baby [...]

I am looking forward to starting up my baby basics series again. There are several topics I want to discuss before my baby (She is already 4 months old!) isn’t a baby anymore. Today I wanted to talk about jaundice. All of my five (breastfed) newborns have had jaundice. My girls had it for over [...]

I am not sure how many of you follow my other blog, Pocketful of Posies.  While I have been writing the Baby Basics series here, I have also been writing about babies there. The series is called Baby Learning and I have been sharing activities to do with your baby to help him or her learn. [...]

Today I am going to discuss two of the less glamorous aspects of parenting. Suctioning a Baby’s Nose If your baby is born in a hospital you will probably be sent home with a bulb syringe like the one pictured above.  However, you may not know how to use it. When your baby’s (or your [...]

The more kids I have the more I realize just how little a baby truly needs in the way of gear.  I know that there are many people in this world who have so very little.  It almost makes me feel silly to write a post about what I consider to be essentials. Yet, we [...]