Category Archive

babies

Libraries are for everyone — even babies

Our local libraries are a treasure trove of community and fun. My daughter has found in our library a place filled with music, stories, games, crafts, puzzles, child-size furniture, picture-books, and other kids.

Is a rocking chair really that big of a deal?

Jaime’s got a question about rocking chairs — do you need one when you have a baby, or can you use a different kind of chair?

Pumping and bottle-feeding saved us

Breastfeeding is awesome, but we sucked at it. Here’s how we got past that.

Easy DIY: decorating baby & kid clothes with freezer paper stencils

Here’s an easy-peasy DIY tutorial for making your own freeze paper stencils so you can get decorating those clothes — yours OR your kid’s!

Matteo’s magical “Where the Wild Things Are”-themed nursery

If you love Where the Wild Things Are or anything you can DIY, this nursery might just be too much for you to take.

What kind of hiking carrier should we use for our infant?

Rachael and her partner love hiking but have NO CLUE what to pack their baby in while they’re doing so. What do you use?

The day my partner adopted our daughter

My partner recently adopted our daughter — the one she has parented since birth — and simultaneously everything and nothing about our family changed .

Should we wait to travel until our kid is old enough to remember it?

Remember that time your parents took you to Mexico? What about the trip to Spain? Oh, no? That’s probably because you were too young.