Sleep training, or sleep teaching, as I prefer to call it, includes learning how long your child can comfortably stay awake between naps and before bed by age because timing sets you and your child up for success. Sleep...
For 5 years, I served as the public education manager for a child abuse prevention non-profit. Part of my work involved delivering a safe sleep and abusive head trauma training to hundreds of nurses, childcare workers, and parents. Parents...
While awaiting your firstborn, you may have visions of folding laundry or reading a book as your little one coos to himself a few feet away.
Then reality hits and between feeding, changing, and doing strange acrobatics you’d never have...
I think most of us are guilty of uttering The phrase, “When I’m a mom I will never do (blank),” before you have kids. One of those resolutions for me was that I would never co-sleep with my kids....
Today marks the first month of my boobs being child-free. Again. After 23 months of non-stop attention.
It is still weird and exciting at the same time. As time goes on, you forget the craziness associated with regular breastfeeding. All...
If you are on a quest to get your child to sleep through the night, there’s no doubt you've been Googling and searching the internet for answers.
To ensure you and I are on the same page in this...
Summer is right around the corner, which means more chances to swim! But having babies and toddlers near pools is an emergency waiting to happen, which is why I put my son in Infant Survival Swim (ISR) lessons last...
I should have known this was coming. It happened with son #1, so it shouldn’t have surprised me when it happened with son #2. But it did. Right around the 9-10 month mark, he abruptly started refusing his bottle. ...
Thank You for Joining 2020 Bloom!
Our 4th annual and first-ever virtual Bloom event was a HUGE success this year! We couldn’t be happier that we got to celebrate all things motherhood with so many new and expecting moms. The...
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