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In Bed with Baby – Another Perspective

Last week, Dale posted her thoughts on the family bed. You can read her blog here. My experiences have been different, and so I’d like to take a moment to share them. I can’t sleep if the baby is in the other room where I can’t hear them. When I have a new child, I’m only able to relax if I can feel them breathing next to me. So, we’ve done the family bed with all four of our children, and they move into their own beds when they’re about a year old. This allows me to get a good … Continue reading →

The Elderly Teach “The Baby Borrowers” Lessons in Love

I may not have children, but last night’s episode of “The Baby Borrowers” was one I could definitely relate to: The teens had to care for the elderly. Since I’m fresh off my duty of caregiving for my mom, the episode struck particularly close to home. Even more so because one of the ladies was on oxygen and two others had suffered strokes. (Except only one, Hedy, was actually being cared for by a teen. The other, Reggie, was the wife of one of the men, George, who had volunteered to stay with a teen couple.) The only thing missing … Continue reading →

Going Ape Over Prehistoric Fossils and Baby Gorillas

Recently I figured out how to subscribe to BBC News’s Daily Email. Hence blogs like Radioactivity Less Dangerous to Animals Then Man? and now this one might be created with more frequency. Today’s BBC email sort of had a theme to it: primates. Very, very old ones as well as a precious little newcomer. New Species of Great Ape Discovered Researchers studying the Afar rift in eastern Ethiopia found nine fossilized teeth estimated to be 10 million years old. They suspected the teeth belonged to a member of the gorilla family, but after running tests, making comparisons and doing whatever … Continue reading →

The Best of October in the Baby Blog

October was a busy month here at the Baby blog and we enjoy bringing you the articles and stories that we do. I wanted to post this a few days ago, but I have been pretty buried offline and in other areas, so I apologize for the delay in bringing you are best of October here in the baby blog. A handful of articles were given to a panel of voters and part of the delay was that we had a tie, so I cast the deciding vote. The best of October this month is a three part series brought … Continue reading →

Climbing Part IV

With my daughter’s ever persistent desire to climb the stairs, she will take advantage of any and every opportunity to zip up the stairs. From my perspective it seems like she watches and waits for the barricade to be moved or not in place yet. She is especially on the watch in mornings as the barricade is moved often while people run up to get clothes and toys. When she notices that the furniture or other barricading objects (I often use a large board slid between two stair posts) are out of place, she literally races towards the stairs and … Continue reading →

Who Rules the Roost In Your House?

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This morning, my husband and I woke up groggily after a night of sleep with a baby in the house. Every night is unpredictable. Every night, we never really know how much sleep, or should I say, how little sleep we are going to get. My husband and I left our sweet baby sleeping in the middle of our bed. He came up to me and told me that when he wakes up, I should go in there and stand at the foot of the bed and look at how the covers are on our little babe. He said, “It … Continue reading →

Co-Sleeping

Sometimes I hate to admit it, but I sleep with my baby, almost every night. My husband thinks I put Johnny into his own bassinet, and just bring him into our bed when he’s ready to nurse, but this isn’t always the case. Actually, it’s rarely the case. I like having him near to me. In reality, it lets me sleep better because I can hear him breathing and feel him moving. When he’s in his bassinet in the next room, I find myself waking up every hour or two to go check on him, making sure he’s alright. And … Continue reading →

Cut the Criticism

On TV here there has been a show called four weddings. I haven’t watched it as I am not into reality TV but the premise seems to be each bride passes judgment on the other three weddings for what they consider works and what doesn’t. To me is doesn’t sound at all like compulsive viewing watching people criticize the others. Yet it happens all the time. Those married young, as Mick and I both were, are criticized by others. Those with a big age difference or who marry later in life or delay having children till they are financially secure … Continue reading →

When Children Regress, Part One

You have finally got your child potty-trained or moved her from a crib to a big bed all to herself. Things may be going along swimmingly and then something happens, and it is as if she had never progressed out of diapers or to sleeping independence. Regression is fairly common and it can happen for a variety of reasons. This does not make it any less frustrating or challenging, but it can help if you understand what is happening. The arrival of a new baby, a move to a new house, a divorce, death, travel or any myriad life changes … Continue reading →

Let’s Talk About Dads and Pregnancy

For most women, switching into mommy-mode seems like an overnight process. One day, you’re body is yours to do with what you will, and the next day it’s house and home to another being. You feel the snap intensely: You’re part of an intimate duo now. Everything you do has certain implications on the growing baby inside you, and you bring this baby with you wherever you go. Now imagine that you are equally excited, concerned, confused and anxious about the great change that is taking place in your life, except that you aren’t carrying this baby. Imagine instead that … Continue reading →