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I remember it like it was yesterday–parking in the special “mom-to-be” section, walking through the automatic doors, and encountering a space that seemed the size of a Target which held nothing but baby gear. It was overwhelming. Dizzying that there could be that much stuff to need, that much stuff to buy for […]

Working Mom and I are expecting our second baby girl in November! By New Year’s Eve, I’ll be a stay-at-home dad to two girls under 3.
I’m so screwed.
I feel completely competent as a stay-at-home parent, sometimes. (Some rare and brief times, but some times all the same.) Last Wednesday, for example, I was lifting a […]

I’ve never smoked a cigarette or gotten a tattoo. I don’t even have my ears pierced. My closet sports no designer clothing or shoes. I’ve never even lived close enough to a major city to be in the know about the hottest nightspots or newest underground bands. My pregnancy, like most other things in my […]

In reality, it comes and goes, ebbs and flows. I have days where it is all I think about, where I’m obsessed and worried and a plain old freak about it. But then I’ll go through days, weeks even, where I don’t think about it - and I’m calm, rational, sane.
Still, the topic won’t go […]

Winter is the worst time to be a parent who stays at home.
Typically, I would also be working, writing a weekly column for a travel site that is preparing to launch. But the preparations are keeping my editor busy right now, and with 13 columns stored up in her files, I am not needed at […]

I recently ran across a brief article with a quote from Helena Bonham Carter, talking about the insatiable need everyone has to participate in pregnancy:

‘Carter, who’s eight months expecting with Tim Burton’s baby, told blackbookmag.com, “People - particularly men - saying with surprise, ‘You’re still drinking caffeine?’ as if I’m performing a criminal […]

What was I thinking when I named my child? I had always loved the name Jack, not as a nickname, but as a stand-alone. To me it connoted strength, confidence, simplicity, and a gentle, easy way of navigating the world. A solid name, for sure. Common, as well, but I didn’t […]

This week’s winner of our semi-prestigious “Hot Stuff Of The Week” award, in one of our most hotly-contested Hot Stuff polls, is… MommyQ, with her post on her first IPS sonogram, complete with the cutest little feotus pictures ya ever did see! Congrats, MommyQ, and blessings be upon you and your soon-to-be-bigger family!!
And now it’s […]

Parents, and those who dream of being parents, and those of you who are looking for a legal escape from parenting, welcome to GNMParents - The GNM stands for Grasshopper New Media and also stands for “Giving New Meaning to Parenting,” which is our aim.
As such, we feature a weekly poll where you, readers of […]

We have friends who had a lot of trouble conceiving. Months later, finally pregnant, they set about the usual new baby preparations: they set up a nursery, bought a layette, and started to read lots and lots of parenting books. – Too many parenting books, it turns out.
Dad-to-be came home after work one evening and […]