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A Kangaroo carries her baby in her pouch right next to her body until her joey is ready to explore the world. When my daughters were first born we held them skin-to-skin on our chests, a technique called Kangaroo Care. Kangaroo Care helps a premature baby regulate it’s body temperature because the heat from the […]

I rediscovered a small little book I picked up a year or more ago, entitled “If all else fails, lower your expectations- a diary of a busy mom” by Susan Murphy.    Here’s a snippet for you, so you can understand why this is such a great book, and why it means so much to all […]

Although some men might have a Father Instinct, my husband isn’t one of those Dads. When our daughters were first born it used to drive me crazy that he could sleep through their very loud crying. With two of them needing to be fed, I would nudge him awake whenever it was his turn. We […]

Parenthood Statistics
• There are 4.25 million new mothers each year in the US.
• 425,000 are teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19.
• 100,000 are 40 or older.
• About 40 percent of all births are the mother’s first; 32 percent are the second.
          - U.S. […]

They’re out there. Those “other” mothers. The ones with the perfectly pressed locks, bangs never out of place who just seem so, well, together. They are the moms that I imagine must have been those lucky creatures who glowed during pregnancy, who pushed twice and gave birth to a baby with 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 […]