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Is Birth Really ALL About the Baby?When it comes to birth choices, I've noticed a number of different attitudes. One predominant one was: "The birth is all about the baby." That is, that it shouldn't matter what the mother wants or how she feels; the only important factor is having a healthy baby.
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I’m Not a “Cool†Mom…And Why That’s Totally Okay With MeI'm, um, kind of a nerd. That's probably not a surprise. And no, my husband doesn't think I am, because he is an uber-nerd (and proud of it). But see, I was never one of the "cool" kids in school. And now? Not much has changed. I've found out that there are still social circles and cliques and, sort
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21 Things to Do with Your Family Before the End of the WorldHey, did you hear the world is going to end tomorrow? If this is true, there is one thing for sure -- with so little time left in this mortal coil, it is time to get busy. Now is the time to do all those things you've been putting off (and I'm not talking about purging your underwear drawer). And wh
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If the World Really Ends on May 21, Here Are 5 Things Parents Can Stop Doing NowSo we've got just a few short days before May 21, 2011, when according to Harold Camping the world will end. I was sitting here reading about it and I thought about what I would really do if that were true. For starters, I'd spend my last days with my loved ones and let them all know how important t
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Tilda Swinton: Birth is "Violent" and "Murderous""In movies, and particularly in television films, when people have babies they are sitting in a hospital room and there are flowers everywhere. They are made up, magically, and they have a baby in their arms and it's all really lovely. They start getting pink baby clothes … [But giving birth] is a
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Ivanka Trump Poses as a Pregnant Bunny and We Ask: Why?!There are things we do before becoming moms from which we must refrain the second we discover we are with child. And for me, near the top of that list is posing for magazines in skimpy bunny costumes when we are obviously pregnant.
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5 Ways to Tell if You’re at Risk for DivorceAre there factors that can predispose a marriage to success … or failure? Apparently - and many of them are things you may not have control over. Marriages are obviously as unique as the individuals in them, but a new piece at The Daily Beast culls together a list of 15 factors that raise your cha
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Does Training Our Children to Sleep Alone REALLY Make Sense?I never thought I'd be one of those co-sleeping parents. In spite of that, here I am, sleeping with my baby. My other son slept with us when he was waking up in the crib all the time. Then he slept exclusively with my husband when I couldn't sleep because his every move and grunt woke me. Fuzz slee
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Loved Tina's Prayer for Her Daughter. Now Can We Get a Prayer for Our Sons?Oh, Tina Fey, patron saint of modern conflicted motherhood, great peaches-and-cream complected hope of funny women everywhere. Your brilliant "The Mother's Prayer for Its Daughter" has been meme-ing around the internet, amusing mothers of daughters everywhere. Also making them steel slightly every t
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A baby menu? How much control do we really have over baby's gender?When we learned that our first child was a girl, my husband and I felt like we had won the baby lottery. We were elated, as we both wanted a daughter so desperately. When we were ready to have another baby, we wanted our daughter to have a sister, so we gave the Shettles Method a try.
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Would You Ever Let Your Baby Sleep in a Closet?!So last week I put Huck to sleep in the closet. Like, in the closet where the shoes live and things. Swaddled up (still swaddling!) in his car seat (still car seating ... uhhhhhh). He slept for nine hours straight so ... let's talk about this like civilized people, shall we? We have, in our gloriou
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5 Reasons Why I’m Not Circumcising My Baby Boy...or GirlMaybe that sounds dumb to you: If I have a girl, why would I circumcise her? After all, it's done in foreign countries, and we call it "female genital mutilation." There are no medical benefits to it (even the most minor versions of it) and generally, we find it horrifying. And it is. We don't need
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Should Photographing Other People's Kids Be Illegal?New Jersey lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it illegal to take pictures of anyone else's children without parental consent. The bill was proposed in response to complaints from Ringwood, NJ residents that a 63-year-old man had been photographing young girls at the town swimming pool.
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My Baby is Getting More Needy...And I Love It!Now that Evie is a sitter, she can play hard and fast -- and gets really disinterested in her toys. (She rarely is disinterested in the toys at Nana's house -- somehow, they are much cooler than at our house.) Instead, she'd rather me hold her and see what I'm doing/cooking/cleaning. I love it.
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3 Things I Wish I’d Done Before Getting PregnantI was childless -- no kids! -- and the sun was peeking from behind the perpetual gray clouds mother nature has consistently and depressingly offered Utah for most of April. Sure, I was driving home from the dentist but I was ALL BY MYSELF. Then this song came on the radio. I'm ashamed to tell you w
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Mom Confession: Being Pregnant Makes Me Hate The Mom I’ve BecomeHow cute are those little guys? This picture was taken in September on our annual trip to the apple orchard, one of the many things I like to do with my boys. We love getting out and doing things -- from the nature center to the indoor bouncy house complex (and anything else they could find fun at t
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Do Moms STILL Worry About Leaving Babies Home With Dad?While I was away in New Orleans for three days at a really terrific conference, my two older kids -- 15-year-old J and 13-year-old E -- were at their Dad's while Baby G and my 3-year-old, C, were at home with my husband Jon. As it happens, the specific event I attended in NOLA was Mom 2.0, a confer
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How Not to Treat Your Friends After Your Baby is Born: A Tale of Baby-BlindnessWe all aspire to seamlessly integrate our babies into our lives as functional human beings. We think we will simply continue to see our friends and go about our lives as normal, with the occasional diaper change and an adorable little companion by our side -- then the baby hits us like an anvil on t
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3 Embarrassing Things I Never Imagined I’d Do as a ParentRemember before you had kids? You would see a parent dragging her kid by the arm out of the mall, and you would think, "Geez I will NEVER be like them." Right?
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Promises for My Newborn Son on Mother’s DayDear Gordon, I promise to protect you from your sisters until you can defend yourself. I promise to cut your hair even if you get those sweet little baby boy curls that mothers find so hard to snip. I promise to play cars, dinosaurs, and robots even though I don't get it. I promise to let you climb